
With Slumberland releasing all these fine records lately, one would almost forget that the label has been around for well over three decades. Washington DC’s Lorelei released an album with noisy shoegaze (that band itself prefers the term ‘postrock’) back in 1995 – this is my favourite song from that album – and then went on to do other things, such as become the CEO of Amtrak, as former bass player Stephen Gardner did between 2022 and 2025. The band reformed in 2012 for a second album and still plays gigs it seems, but this remains my favourite.