Hammock - raising your voice... trying to stop an echo (2006, Darla)

When you listen to Hammock it becomes quickly certain that they owe some debt towards bands like Windy & Carl, Cocteau Twins, Slowdive, Album Leaf, Harold Budd or Auburn Lull, as they translate their music into something directly enjoyable and there lays probably their "emo" part, this ability to convey strong and warm, ecstatic and melancholic, blurry and dreamy emotions, in a way not really dissimilar with what Appleseed Cast did on their "Low level owl" double ep or the kind of blissful shoegazing Pia Fraus  offers.

Auburn Lull - begin civil twilight (2008, Darla)

A few bands are exceptions, living besides tendencies, in their own bubble, enriching their own ground, preserving their special ecosystem. In the shoegaze realm, Pia Fraus is such a band, Auburn Lull another, if the first one, from Estonia, has built a universe from My Bloody Valentine, this one, from Lansing, Michigan, is like a lost child of Slowdive, playing atmospheric songs of pastoral dreampop.