Hard Light
On its first album in 30 years, the Boston shoegaze band looks back with tenderness.
With Hard Light, Drop Nineteens seem to have emancipated themselves from the artistic and commercial parameters they likely felt corralled by in the 1990s. Replete with the prerequisite blankets of fuzz, the set is also, in places, notably buoyant.
Drop Nineteens return nearly 30 years after their initial dissolution with an album spiritually connected to their beloved debut.
Whether shoegaze's enduring cross-generational appeal and TikTok meme-ability had anything to do with Drop Nineteens reactivating and droppi...
Quickly after becoming early 1990s shoegaze darlings, Drop Nineteens disbanded. Now, 30 years later, they return with a renewed purpose and a new album.