New Releases: Highspire

For some reason I keep indulging in contemporary shoegaze records. And while I like a lot of them, they often blend together--take some halfway decent songs and slather them in reverb and distortion and voila, there you go. So they end up sitting largely un-revisited in my digital library, the stray song periodically popping up when I cue up the "shoegaze" genre and hit shuffle play.

Which makes it nice when you snag one that stands out. The latest from Pennsylvania band Highspire, at least on th...