sign crushes motorist

Working under the name Sign Crushes Motorist, the sonic texture and crushing level of sadness in the lyrical content of Irish guitarist Liam McCay's music evokes the heavy-duty shoegaze of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. McCay was raised in Buncranna, County Donegal, by music enthusiast parents: everyone from Leonard Cohen to Depeche Mode was in rotation at home, and at eight years old, young Liam was learning to play the fiddle. As a teenager on the Internet, he became immersed in "slowcore" -- a modernized description of the shimmering guitar effects associated with shoegaze ...