Permanent Collection

Permanent Collection mix together the guitar noise of shoegaze, the angst-ridden delivery of post-punk, and occasional dream pop textures to craft a sound that ranges from pedal-driven static (2012's Nearly Wed Nearly Dead) to sludgy doomgaze (Nothing Good Is Normal), always feeling familiar, while still sounding just off enough to be unique. The band's founder, Jason Hendardy, was a member of the San Francisco shoegaze band Young Prisms, playing guitar with them until just after the release of their 2011 album Friends for Now. He started working alone on a variation of the ...