Album Review: Thousand Yard Stare - "Earthanasia"
Bluddyell, now here's a name I didn't think I'd be seeing in the reviews column in 2023. Thousand Yard Stare were one of those bands who were briefly tipped to be the next big thing in the post-Madchester pre-Britpop indie ice age of 1992-93 but notched up just a sole Top 40 hit, 1992's Comeuppance (kind of a midway point between baggy and shoegazing) before disappearing as fast as they'd arrived as both of those movements descended into being terminally unfashionable. The group reformed in 2015 and have been beavering away on the fringes of the indie scene since with Earthanasia being their second album (third if you include a live one) since reforming. And...well, to be honest, it sounds much the same as Thousand Yard Stare always did. The guitars on the likes of Measures , Espirit du Corps and the languid piano ballad Borrowed Time still wash over you like warm ocean waves while the songs lilt along gently without any real sense of haste. Th...