The Dutch town of Twente isn’t really known for its music. If anything it's known for its football club FC Twente, and mainly then for an interview in which ex-England manager Steve McClaren adopted a Dutch ‘accent’ for a pre-Champions League interview. But things are changing, as a psych-prog-pop quartet Pauw, are making waves home and abroad. Consisting of Rens Ottink on drums, Brian Pots on guitar and vocals, Eszl Du Voiis on bass and Kees Braam on keyboards, they are gaining a reputation in their native Holland and anywhere they play for incendiary live shoes and beautifully crafted EPs. Now they’ve released their debut album, Macrocosm Microcosm.
‘Shambhala’ is the standout track. Throughout its duration faux-shoegazing, reverb drenched vocal verses rub shoulders with full on psych-outs, chocked with jangling bells, chimes, sitar sounding guitars and a rhythm section that sounds likes it’s been lifted from Richard Rush’s Psych-Out soundtrack. This is more than revivalism. Instead of trying to create the sound of a scene that never existed, Pauw have made a track full of their collective loves, and what’s more it sounds all the more authentic for it. From: https://drownedinsound.com/releases/19195/reviews/4149719
