The Sunshine Factory
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The Sunshine Factory is a three-member shoegaze/alternative/psychedelic rock
band from Mobile, Alabama
consisting of Ian Taylor and (guitar, vocals), Sally Robertson (bass, vocals). The group has three albums to their credit: Vintage Revolution (2009); Sugar (2010); and Sugar Live (2011). The group's musical influences include My Bloody Valentine, considered one of the original shoegaze bands from the early 1990s, and latter-day bands such as Slow Dive, Ride, and Lush. Robertson’s vocals have been compared to Bilinda Butcher’s. The band has also been compared to Bear in Heaven and A Place to Bury Strangers.
Taylor, whose Eastern Orthodox upbringing also informs the band’s songs, began as a one-person band with the debut release of Vintage Revolution in 2009. Hendrich and Robertson joined in 2010 to complete the group, resulting in the Sugar album, which began as an EP.
Recently, the band’s video “Twisted and Clover” from the Sugar album was featured on Popmatters.com, which referred to the music as “distortion-fueled pop.” In advance of the Sugar release, “My Sugar Cane” from that album was featured as “song of the day” on October 21, 2010 on futuresounds.com.
A German reviewer of the Sugar album found it closer to works of My Bloody Valentine on a continuum stretching from The Jesus and Mary Chain to MBV.
Psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in United States and the United Kingdom...
band from Mobile, Alabama
Mobile, Alabama
Mobile is the third most populous city in the Southern US state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County. It is located on the Mobile River and the central Gulf Coast of the United States. The population within the city limits was 195,111 during the 2010 census. It is the largest...
consisting of Ian Taylor and (guitar, vocals), Sally Robertson (bass, vocals). The group has three albums to their credit: Vintage Revolution (2009); Sugar (2010); and Sugar Live (2011). The group's musical influences include My Bloody Valentine, considered one of the original shoegaze bands from the early 1990s, and latter-day bands such as Slow Dive, Ride, and Lush. Robertson’s vocals have been compared to Bilinda Butcher’s. The band has also been compared to Bear in Heaven and A Place to Bury Strangers.
Taylor, whose Eastern Orthodox upbringing also informs the band’s songs, began as a one-person band with the debut release of Vintage Revolution in 2009. Hendrich and Robertson joined in 2010 to complete the group, resulting in the Sugar album, which began as an EP.
Recently, the band’s video “Twisted and Clover” from the Sugar album was featured on Popmatters.com, which referred to the music as “distortion-fueled pop.” In advance of the Sugar release, “My Sugar Cane” from that album was featured as “song of the day” on October 21, 2010 on futuresounds.com.
A German reviewer of the Sugar album found it closer to works of My Bloody Valentine on a continuum stretching from The Jesus and Mary Chain to MBV.