Piroshka

Brickbat

An album that knows its core audience and delivers to it...

Let me open with this declarative statement. This is not "Shoegaze." It is a hybrid form of Garbage that borrows from Shoegaze guitar treatments to achieve its derivative Garbage sound. And, as I listen to the album, I hear Neo-psychedelic phrasing along with the affected guitars. However, it clearly has in its membership a combination of established talent which demonstrates a mature degree of musical prowess. It possesses a rather muddy sound due to the overproduction caused by the ... read more