Ringo Death Starr does not feature Ringo Starr nor was their new record recorded on the Death Star. Instead this three piece band with one heck of a play on words is lost somewhere in the mid 90's stuck between their Primitives, My Bloody Valentine, and Boo Radleys records. This is a group that obviously knows a thing or two about effects pedals and aren't afraid to share it and their self-titled album is one of the best things to be released twenty years too late.
With guitar wipeouts, flange effects, distortion up the wazoo, and drugged out vocals, much of Ringo Death Starr sounds like walking through a Lunesta fueled dream that never ends. With sounds reverberating all over the place it will sound like you’re stuck in a shoegazing echo chamber. It’s a noisy but beautiful racket that's sensory overload for your ears. It's truly awesome stuff that despite what seems like way too much distortion and chaos is actually warped melodies that are inescapable.
Relatively short and most definitely loud, this is a record that Kevin Shields would be proud of. Ringo Death Starr is awesome stuff and while it wasn't recorded on the Death Star it probably has the power to destroy an entire planet with distorted melodic mayhem. Essential post-shoegazing stuff that everyone who's ever looked at their Doc Martens for more than a minute needs in their life.
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