Sianspheric Discography of CDs

Sianspheric music CDs The history of Canadian space rock/shoegazer darlings Sianspheric is obviously full of turmoil, filled with constant lineup changes, several periods of hiatus, and so on, but three years between Else and the release of The Sound of the Colour of the Sun may have been the most potentially problematic. Marking the return of original member Paul Sinclair and the addition of bassist/guitarist Locksley Taylor, you wouldn't think the group would be able to transition smoothly into this album -- but they do. The songs bleed together effortlessly, maintaining that My Bloody Valentine-esque sound, with a dash of Verve thrown in on tracks like "To Myself," which is especially evident in the vocals (A Storm ...

Sianspheric discography Before moving to the white-noise shoegazing tendencies of There's Always Someplace You'd Rather Be, Sianspheric seemed fairly dedicated to the more ambient end of dream poppy -- as its title suggests, Somnium has a slow, hazy feel that draws from the most sleepy work of bands like Slowdive and Kitchens of Distinction. This sound is utterly pleasant in and of itself, and will doubtlessly appeal to adherents of the most blissed-out pop genres, but Somnium gets most interesting when its constructs its guitars around off-kilter songwriting -- tracks like "This Window" actually resemble some of Red House Painters' dreamier work, and it's in spots like this that ...

Sianspheric songs This celebration of Sianspheric's 10th anniversary includes intriguing remixes, innovative short films, and excellent live performances of some of their best songs, including "I Like the Ride," "Everything's a Wave," and "Audiophone." This set includes a DVD with over 2 hours of material including a 25 minute pseudo-documentary trip through a decade of SIANspheric live shows, all the band's music videos - some of which include surround sound audio or band/director's commentary), some short film soundtrack work, and several 5.1 surround suond remixes of old and unreleased songs. The included CD is sure to whet the new fan's budding interest or to satiate the completist in all of ...

Sianspheric CD discography There's Always Someplace You'd Rather Be takes a heavy influence from shoegazing, but not in the plush, dreamy My Bloody Valentine sense. The album's seriously fuzzed-out guitars have the white noise quality of Medicine, only much more so. The album forms this sound into rather lovely pop songs on roughly half of its tracks, with the remainder exploring an unstructured wash of sound that sometimes mirrors the texture of Slowdive's Pygmalion (in much the same way Sianspheric's Somnium does). For the most part, the pop songs fare much better, taking the defining approach of shoegazing to its logical extremes. ~ Nitsuh Abebe

Sianspheric albums SIANspheric's third album is a quasi-compilation that collects three live tracks, three remixes of "Where the Planets Revolve..." (from 1995's Somnium), and a few unreleased jams. Two of the live tracks -- "Watch Me Fall" and "To Myself" (recorded at the 1996 Halifax Pop Explosion) -- are crushing drone-pop dirges, powerful and effective even compared to their original versions. The remixes (produced by Play.Pause) are also done well; they're surprisingly polished compared to those by notorious indie-jungle heads like Third Eye Foundation. The first remix is "Planet Hal," a dark-stepping drum'n'bass track with a programming complexity on par with respected junglists like Boymerang and Aphrodite, while the ...