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Only Hinting

by Clinic Stars

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mbx220 Knda like if the cocteau twins and earlier era slowdive had a baby. it's very pleasant. I get a lof of Cocteau Twins vibes on Remain! Great album, very chill and easy to listen to. Perfect for a rainy, gloomy fall evening. It's a good mix of some of the 80s and 90s shoegaze/dream pop with some modern twists. Favorite track: Remain.
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KatG There's a genre debate going on in the comments and my contribution is that dream pop and shoegaze often seem completely interchangable to me the way people use them as terms (ofc genre is a slippery, subjective thing) -- this evokes 'dream pop' to me a lot more than some other things that confidently claim the subgenre. floaty, reverby, pretty in a wistful-haunting way. Favorite track: I Am The Dancer.
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dj duMars Beautiful slowcore from the Great Lakes! Definitely a record for whisperpop obsessives. Favorite track: She Won't Be.
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ukino55 Que alegría tener la oportunidad de descubrir bandas como esta. Slowcore? Shoegaze? Dream pop? O todo en uno? Pero por encima de todo emociones, sensibilidades... Favorite track: Only Hinting.
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Mute Branches Pretty much perfectly timed for the start of the chilly Autumn weather. Really thoughtfully textural in a way that reminds me of the very underrated album 'When You Arrive Here' by IKEBANA Favorite track: I Am The Dancer.
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1.
Kissing Through The Veil 02:54
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2.
Only Hinting 05:39
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3.
I Am The Dancer 06:24
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4.
Remain 04:43
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5.
She Won't Be 05:50
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6.
Shiver (Walking Over Time) 04:04
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7.
Isn't It 03:44
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8.
Thoughtless 04:41
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The full-length debut by Detroit duo Giovanna Lenski and Christian Molik aka Clinic Stars both refines and redefines their pitch-perfect fusion of downer-pop balladry and featherweight shoegaze: Only Hinting. Recorded and produced at the band’s home studio, the album was crafted across 2022 and 2023, patiently layering FX and spatial depths to give each song a swirling, subconscious undertow. From the strummed whirlpool of “I Am The Dancer” to the gated reverb of “Remain” to the greyscale guitar reverie of “Isn’t It,” the record aches as much as moves, daydreaming of escape and transcendence.

The group cite a desire to leave their “industrial environment” as muse, although the songs also revel in the romance of longing itself, in the beauty of hearts grown distant. The duo’s previous EPs, 10,000 Dreams (2021) and April’s Past (2022), captured a similarly swooning slowcore palette, but Only Hinting hits different. Here haze is as much instrument as texture, gauze and melody married as one, traced in elegant arcs across cities streaked in shadow.

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released September 20, 2024

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