I am a mas­sive fan of ear­ly shoegaze like Slow­dive, My Bloody Valen­tine, Ride, and real­ly any­thing with that ethe­re­al, dream­like qual­i­ty that trans­ports you from your
bed­room or local venue into the clouds.

For this rea­son I was extreme­ly excit­ed to dis­cov­er the music of Baldleaf, self described “5 chip 1 fish”, and their angel­ic, echoey approach to alter­na­tive rock.

The band has a nuanced and diverse range of sounds (that can be heard on Spo­ti­fy and Band­camp) which I did won­der if they could repro­duce in a live envi­ron­ment. But not to wor­ry, when I saw them live at San Fran they pro­vid­ed an even more rau­cous and exu­ber­ant brand of rock than I was per­haps expect­ing from their record­ed mate­r­i­al, with irre­sistible ener­gy, impres­sive gui­tar and strong vocals.

They’ve got a fan­tas­tic reper­toire of intro­spec­tive and clas­si­cal­ly shoegazey songs such as “The leaves talk to me”, “Thou­sand lies”, and “Alex G”, which leaves no ques­tion as to its inspi­ra­tion.

Baldleaf cross the line between music to get you through a breakup or pon­der life while it’s cold and rain­ing out­side, to a hec­tic Fri­day night with friends, a gig, a par­ty and cheap pints.