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Dogs are known to help fight loneliness, so San Francisco-born musician Hannah van Loon aka Tanukichan adopted a dog named Gizmo to help fight the lockdown blues. Not only did she name her second album after him out of gratitude, she also made him the star of the cover, from which he barks broad-snoutedly at the viewer. It is unclear whether the four-legged friend influenced van Loon’s musical design: but you can tell that she bathes her self-absorbed vocals with a sleepy sea of guitars and lets murky basslines circle behind a veil of reverberation effects. Yes, exactly, that’s called shoegaze.
In doing so, she doesn’t reinvent the genre, but pretties it up with a pleasant light-footedness by playing pop melodies on it. On Tanukichan’s debut SUNDAYS you could still feel the convolutedness from the magic cabinet of parade shoegazers My Bloody Valentine, this now gives way to a more diverse concept. “Escape” offers the biggest shoegaze kick to get you started, followed by excursions into blues (“Like You”), indie rock (“Thin Air”) or post-rock (“A Bad Dream”). This may have influenced Chaz Bear, mastermind of the act Toro y Moi, who not only supported van Loon as a producer and musician, but also released GIZMO on his own label. After recording this record, Gizmo the dog passed away. He lives on forever on the cover.
Author: Michael Prenner
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