Waking Lines

Waking Lines is an ambitious premiere, but one that’s not had all it’s misshapen foibles ironed out. Patterns have, however, ensured that they’ll remain inside people’s heads for a considerable time to come.

Waking Lines may not always hit the mark, but for a debut effort it offers lashings of promise for Patterns’ future if they can either hone their songwriting skills or take a detour down the lengthy drone-pop street.

It's a worthy exhibition of a palatial set of elements that combine genres of dream-pop, shoegaze and indie, which stretch slightly toward a bit of psych-pop.

What it lacks perhaps in originality, it certainly more than delivers in getting, keeping and rewarding the listener's attention.

With a relatively narrow selection of tricks at their disposal, a sense of déjà vu enters somewhere in the second half – a hazy sameness that initially augments the pretty, diaphanous dreaminess, but which over repeated listens diminishes the album’s magnetism.