AM Shanley
American Vanilla
Subjangle
After sporadically releasing four singles from the album since 2020, Northern Ireland’s AM Shanley finally releases a debut American Vanilla album that fully and immediately realises his immense potential.
Beautiful from start to finish, "You Really Have Me", "Lets Get Invisible" and "Frightening (Alternative Take)" claims the fertile musical hinterland that lies somewhere between the Trust Blinks style of lo-fi meets Americana and the more gregarious Kelley Stoltz influenced essence of burnished jangle-pop, in a group of tracks that flirt with mid-tempo and purposefully unrealised intensity.
When the the tempo reduces once more the beauty resonates still further as "Shimmer (Sappy Birthday)", "Redshifting", and "Gone, Gone (Gone)" move with a, urgent, almost sultry furtiveness towards the isolated riffs and sumptuous melancholy of acts such as Majak Door and Conflict At Serenity Pools as the perfect level of under-production serves to accentuate every jangled note with absolute precision.
Burnished, lo-fi jangle-rock has never felt quite so naturally vital as it does in the hands of AM Shanley.
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