Imagine if Japanese heavy-psychers Mainliner decided to make a shoegaze album. Or better yet, if Les Rallizes Dénudés put Grouper on vocals for a collaborative doom-garage project. The Goslings encapsulate all of this and more on their 2006 album "Grandeur of Hair", having carved out a niche entirely their own, with a sound that can trace its roots back to My Bloody Valentine's droning dreaminess while falling just short of being categorized as harsh noise. Buried beneath the abrasive production you'll find some surprising garage-strut grooves which, cunningly inserted between the droning passages, practically breach White Stripes territory.
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