The thick, mucky air that makes up Kindling’s sound might feel crushing, like it’s weighing you down with its gravity, but its atmosphere isn’t impossible to traverse. The four-piece from Massachusetts bring buzzsaw guitars and dense layers of fuzz into a melodic, occasionally buoyant realm, and manage to quench a thirst for ugliness and prettiness all at once. Between the searing, full-throttle thrust of “Blinding Wave” and the punishing weight behind “Painkiller,” Galaxies is a gritty yet savory collection of shoegaze. Listen to the EP below via Brooklyn Vegan.

Kindling are playing several release shows around the Northeast:

11/07 Brooklyn, NY @ Suburbia
11/08 Cambridge, MA @ Out of the Blue Too
11/09 Florence, MA @ 13th Floor
11/20 Easthampton, MA @ Flywheel
12/03 Easthampton, MA @ Flywheel

Galaxies is out 11/6 on No Idea. Order it on vinyl here.