God’s Gonna Give You a Million Dollars by Shallowater

For fans of American Football, Slint, Nick Drake, slowcore, and the tragic soul trapped inside an indifferent country music industry, God’s Gonna Give You a Million Dollars by Shallowater paints an eerily familiar, deeply depressive mosaic, capturing the zeitgeist in an unlikely union of traditional Americana and experimental rock. Guitar licks straight from cowboy ballads bathe in the melancholy of a wailing pedal steel and humming fiddles, backed up by a vocalist on the constant verge of a shout, whisper, and song. These vocals bridge the divide into the left-field world of post hardcore harmonics, enormous shoegaze tones, and explosive dynamic swings, all of which seamlessly enhance the album’s existing atmosphere of nostalgic resignation. Shallowater feels like home in a way few bands ever could; every emotion leaps off the tape and into our hearts already full of the same thoughts, embracing us and joining in our sorrows as a real, breathing, essential companion.