Throughout the history of shoegaze, bands have tried hundreds of different techniques to create the huge blissful walls of sound the genre calls for. Of course there’s gliding, the method developed by Kevin Shields and aped by ever other shoegaze guitarist ever (guilty), but bands have also tried everything from walls of amps to layering dozens of takes of the guitar parts to more guitar pedals than one person should be able to understand.
Brisbane Australia’s Deafcult employ a novel method that’s genius in its simplicity: they just have four guitarists.
It’s an elegant, if obvious, solution and the results speak for themselves on the hazy, crushing atmospheres on Auras.