Album Review: Deafcult - Auras

Auras is full of melodic drone, flecked with classic rock, sort of like listening to another band through a few sheets of gauze.

While it might set a shoegaze pace, it's often far more proactive, peppering each track with catchy little hooks and alluring deviations, subtle traces of '80s electronica or an off-kilter country refrain, slipping in and out of the swelling grit that permeates their sound. It's vaguely hypnotic - after a while, everything starts to fade away and you're left floating inside someone else's dream, like being trapped on an ice floe watching the Aurora Borealis shimmering faintly overhead.