THE CITY GATES – Age of Resilience - CD

THE CITY GATES – Age of Resilience - CD

Third print in 3-panel Digipak of their album originally released in 2021. 

Working from a shoegaze/dreampop playbook throughout the pages of which they’ve overwritten those somewhat ethereal tenets with their own more forceful passages, ones lifted from the classicist’s post-punk canon, the result is a potently intricate, assured sound that suggests Ride if they’d rode not out of Oxford at the tail end of the 80s but rather Manchester some ten years prior. 

There is, in short, a funereal touch to this band’s brand of elegance, one we found ourselves stalking around in with mystery and not a little beauty tugging at our coattails, gleams of light streaking overhead, a perhaps too poetic way of saying that the sheer quality of The Age of Resilience jumps out at you pretty much everywhere you turn.

Tracklist:

01 Nowhere Nagasaki

02 The Pyre

03 Cape of Good Hope

04 Tending a Dead Woman's Garden

05 Le Silence

06 Roman Empire

07 Siegfried 1969

08 Claiming Race

09 Copenhagen

10 Slush

11 Foghorn's Cry