The hypnotic, late ‘80’s Alternative subgenre known as "Shoegaze" has been brought into the 21st Century by Buffalo, NY's Tearwave.   Their debut album is a mesmerizing musical astral journey.   "Lotus Flower" (also the first video from the album) is as intoxicating as an exotic scent.   "Lady Aurora" starts spreading rosy light to velvety darkness.   "Emotional Cocoon" soars on ethereal butterflies’ wings.   The instrumental “Crimson Interlude” has fevered blood coursing through the veins; a fitting precursor leading into the somber “Crimson Water Cleanses the Soul.”   “Trial By Fire” is darkly ethereal. “Dream Bliss” is a fitting soundscape to altered dreamlike states.

Reviewed June 2007 by Athena Schaffer  athena (at) gothicbeauty (dot) com