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Sky is Alright

by Sky is Alright

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about

Sky is Alright began in 2018 when London-based Rishi Neal Arora began writing a handful of songs as a way to escape the growing despair of the world around him. A batch of songs were fully written, however they were missing a percussive foundation. Arora's long-time high school friend, LA-based Chris Gregory, provided the drumming backbone the songs needed.

"The self-titled debut LP from transatlantic shoegaze duo, 'Sky is Alright' is a strong showing for a genre that has largely existed on the side-lines of more traditional rock and pop interpretations. And my word, these two are some of the best representatives that shoegaze could have asked for. Perfectly synthesizing soft, spacy, and ethereal vocals atop a more gritty foundation of distorted guitars and heavy drums. Immediately, I was taken back to early work from the Smashing Pumpkins, that melodic and understated singing alongside an instrumental backing that seems far too heavy, but somehow works.

The band began three years ago in 2018, when London-based Rishi Neal Arora penned down a handful of songs that were his way of escaping the growing despair of the world around him. While the songs were completely written, they were missing a percussive foundation. Arora's long-time high school friend, LA-based Christopher Gregory provided the drumming backbone the songs needed. After two years of working together remotely via email, the duo got together early last year in Los Angeles to record the eight piece self-titled project. Interestingly, the band claims that their inspiration behind the songs comes from various characters in history: the astronomer Carl Sagan, the Bauhaus visual artist László Moholy-Nagy, and the avant-garde pianist Erik Satie. A beautifully experimental project, and one that has inspirations that are equally visionary.

It's not often that a self-titled debut album also has a self-titled opening track. 'Sky is Alright' sets the mood perfectly — a seamless and melodic opening riff that is slightly distorted paves the way for the supple and breathy vocals to come through. "Remember what it means to be live, For a moment time it stops I'm swept ashore". Just the way 'Sky is Alright' is reassuringly sung here makes the track what it is.

'Crimson Sunburn' takes the tempo down a notch. With a more slowed down riff and increasingly decelerated vocals, it serves as a relaxant before 'Mistress Pessimist' brings us right back to where we started. Perhaps the most infectious tune on the record, 'Mistress Pessimist' makes excellent use of the electric guitar and slightly higher pitched vocals. 'Mistress Pessimist, by my side. Mistress Pessimist, she'll go for a ride. Mistress Pessimist, until I die. Be my pessimist'. Pessimism never sounded so good.

'Indigo Moon' is a welcome differentiator. The emotive acoustic opening is markedly different from the rest of the LP till here. It also incorporates a wonderful interlude that I don't want to spoil too much here. But my favourite on the project is the penultimate track — 'Last Bus Home'. Longer than the rest, but far more progressive, it's a testament to the duo's ability to string together extended narratives and instrumentals on a singular track. The album's closer, 'Sun Falls Down' is the most melancholic of the bunch. Here, the acoustic takes centre stage. Forgoing the distorted electric on the rest of the album, it's a much cleaner, intentionally polished, and stripped back end to an exquisite debut album. It builds, and builds to a crescendo that never comes before cutting to black altogether.

Shoegaze might not be for everyone immediately, I'll admit. But despite being a fairly acquired taste, it has the ability to be far more resonant and timeless than the rest. And for that, I have to say that 'Sky is Alright' by Sky is Alright is a special one. I've only sat with the album for a week, but you know when you're hearing something that's going to stick with you. Go stream Sky is Alright right now!"
~ Kartik Sundar
www.findnoenemy.com

"The London/LA-based Sky Is Alright released their first album Sky Is Alright and it may be one of the most interesting ethereal music releases this year. The duo consists of the artists known from post-rock/mathrock bands The Littlest Viking and Signal Hill, but now they create this extremely soft-vocals very guitar-based dreamy music that takes you straight to Morpheus' Realms.

What strikes the most from the beginning is how airy the vocals are - they're not your dreamy indie pop vocals, they are an ethereal cushion, an incarnate dream, the most delicate male voice since, perhaps, Hanging Valleys. Those whispers are accompanied by very rock-like guitars (no place for soothing synths, everything is filled with the pop-rock vigour) in catchy compositions. Especially Sky Is Alright and Indigo Moon deserve special attention while Mistress Pessimist may be the liveliest dream rock song I heard for a while now. The whole album finishes with extremely mellow songs that make it feel as if the whole release simply dissolves into the air."
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credits

released June 25, 2021

All songs written and performed by Sky is Alright.
Recorded at Red Gate Recorders (Los Angeles, CA) by Tony Spica.
Mixed by Tony Spica.
Mastered at Puzzle Factory Sound Studios (London, UK) by Dax Linere.
Artwork by Rishi Neal Arora, done in homage to László Moholy-Nagy.

Sky is Alright is Rishi Neal Arora and Christopher Patrick Gregory.

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Sky is Alright is a shoegaze band based in London and Los Angeles. The band is comprised of members of Signal Hill and The Littlest Viking, both of which paved the way for LA’s post-rock and math-rock scenes from the early 2000s.

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