Thanks to Olivia Rodrigo’s wildly successful Daisy Chain Fields Music Festival last week, a new generation of fans is discovering Gen X alt-rock staples like The Breeders, Garbage, and Bikini Kill. On a much smaller scale (at least for now), Nashville’s Hannah Cole may be responsible for introducing Gen Z to the beauty of shoegaze bands like Ride and Lush.
On her debut LP, Switchbacks, she melds the swirling, fuzzed-out guitars of shoegaze and ’90s alt rock with sophisticated pop melodies that act as a Trojan horse for some powerful lyrics. The title track opens the album with screeching guitars and solid drumming, with Cole’s soft, measured voice fighting to be heard above the dissonance. The distorted, reverb-heavy guitar…
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