CLIVESTAR

Although not reaching any notable status, citing Can, tompaulin and Spacemen3 amongst their main influences, Clivestar have created some rather excellent sounds which could be described, as they do, as experimental ambient shoegaze.


There has not been much Clivestar material released that I am aware of other than two tracks, 'Something Special' and 'With You', which both appeared on a Reverb Records compilation in 2001. More recently, in 2005, The Great Pop Supplement, an off-shoot label of Earworm Records, advertised an upcoming limited edition Clivestar single release, although this does not seem to have materialised.

A few tracks are available for download from the Clivestar myspace however, including 'Something Special', which has an ingenious mechanical spaced out vibe to it, with tremendously downbeat detached vocals, and also two fine instrumentals; the sparse and atmospheric 'Bink Freud' which has a GSYBE post-rock feel, and the much darker and grittier 'Animal Love, Animal Lunch', which was recorded sometime around the turn of the millenium, and shares some very distinctive parallels with Death In Vegas from that time. Interesting listens to say the least.

Related Links:

http://www.myspace.com/clivestarmusic

http://www.clivestar.com

http://www.reverbr.com

http://www.greatpopsupplement.com