One of the more worthwhile products of Britain’s sometimes overzealous, NME-driven hype machine, The Big Pink parlayed the buzz around their early singles into a glowingly reviewed debut album last year, A Brief History of Love. It’s a large scale indie-rock album that looks to the spirit of shoegaze and the towering, over-sized guitars and beat-heavy production of late-’90s alternative rock. The Big Pink share this bill with another indie-rock band that looks back toward alternative eras past: A Place to Bury Strangers, who channeled psychedelic shoegaze and “120 Minutes”-era college rock on their 2009 sophomore album, Exploding Head.
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