Background
Spy Glass Blue was founded in 1995 and immediately released a self-titled vinyl EP. Their first album was releasd the next year, but because of record label issues did not achieve widespread distribution until 1997. Shadows contains a gothic rock musical style that swings between "light and airy", "dark, haunting, moody", and psychedelic. Spy Glass Blue originally intended to have more of a pop based sound, like "Sade and Seal meets Peter Murphy," of the goth scene Aguirre comments "gothic is one tenth of what we do."
According to one reviewer "Shadows plays mind games with the listener" with its music and deep lyrics. Lyrically it hides its deep meanings in a way that is "sometimes hard to follow." An example is in the song "Stygan", which hides the dangers of stumbling in faith in the words "apostolic apostasy". The overall theme of the album is "the confusion of life without Christ."
On Loud as Feathers the vocals lean more toward David Bowie than Peter Murphy.
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