Best Band That Sounds Like a Vacuum Cleaner

Picking up influences from My Bloody Valentine and Swervedriver, Bright Channel plays the kind of music that was once called “shoegazer”: melodic guitars buried under thick, swirling drones of digital effects and noise. Echoes swell and static rattles throughout every song, sounding for all the world like an orchestra of Hoover Uprights plugged into a wall of amplifiers. Underneath all the volume, though, are dark, elegant compositions on par with Joy Division or Sonic Youth. Bright Channel’s music may sound like a vacuum cleaner, but it sure doesn’t suck.