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Shoegaze prodigies Sunshy release their dazzling debut

盯鞋摇滚新秀 Sunshy 发布闪亮首秀

by Leor GalilNovember 5, 2024 莱尔·加利尔 2024 年 11 月 5 日

Sunshy：Sascha Deng, Gwen Giedeman, Wesley Park, and John Golden

Sunshy 成员：萨沙·邓、格温·吉德曼、韦斯利·帕克和约翰·戈尔登

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When Sascha Deng and Wesley Park graduated from Northwestern in 2022, they’d already started work on the debut album by their shoegaze band, Sunshy. They finally released I Don’t Care What Comes Next last month, and it marks them out as one of the most compelling bands of the ongoing shoegaze resurgence. Sunshy’s concise, direct songs combine intimate vocal duets, shimmering blankets of guitar, and aggressively syncopated drumming. Their colossal riffs make expert use of one of the genre’s best tricks: they pick the perfect moment to explode into the stratosphere.

当2022 年 Sascha Deng 和 Wesley Park 从西北大学毕业时，他们已经开始在创作他们的盯鞋乐队 Sunshy 的首张专辑。这就是上个月他们最终发行的《I Don’t Care What Comes Next》，这张专辑的发行使他们成为了盯鞋复兴运动中最引人注目的乐队之一。

Sunshy 简洁、直接的歌曲结合了亲密的二重唱、闪闪发光的吉他和激进的切分音鼓点。他们巨大的连复段熟练地运用了这一流派的最佳技巧之一：他们选择了爆发到平流层的完美时刻。

“I’ve always liked noisy guitar music,” Park says. “I’ve never really gotten the chance to do [it] before Sunshy.” He’s from Orange County, and he started recording in his bedroom as a high school student, making indie pop under the name Wes Park. Deng grew up in Shanghai and Massachusetts, and she played in a band in high school too. The two of them met at Northwestern’s radio station, WNUR. “We would record live bands and play them on air,” Deng says.

“我一直喜欢吵闹的吉他音乐，” 帕克说。 “但在 Sunshy 之前我从来没有真正有机会这样做。”他来自加州奥兰治县，高中时就开始在自己的卧室里录音，并以韦斯·帕克 (Wes Park) 的名字制作独立流行音乐。邓在上海和马萨诸塞州长大，高中时她也在乐队中演奏。他们两人是在西北大学的广播电台 WNUR 认识的。 “我们会录制现场乐队并在广播中播放，”邓说。

“When we first met, we found out that we had the same pedal, which is this Keeley pedal,” Park says. “It’s the My Bloody Valentine ‘Loomer’ pedal, and we bonded over that.” Deng started playing guitar on Park’s solo material, and about a year before graduation they began working on I Don’t Care What Comes Next.

“当我们第一次见面时，我们发现我们有相同的踏板效果器，一个 Keeley 的效果器， 型号是 [我的血腥情人节‘Loomer’]。 ” Park 说。 “ 我们因此结下了不解之缘。” 邓之后开始在 Park 的独奏作品中弹吉他。大约在毕业前一年，他们开始创作《I Don't Care What Comes Next》。

“We actually worked separately,” Deng says. Each would write most of a song, then show it to the other to add finishing touches. After graduation, this parallel process was often a necessity: Park was looking for a job, shuttling back and forth between Chicago and California. When he settled in Chicago in spring 2023, he set about booking gigs for the band—and recruiting musicians to back up him and Deng onstage. Sunshy brought aboard college friend Gwen Giedeman on bass, and Park met Blinker drummer John Golden at an Empty Bottle show. The band debuted as a four-piece at Cole’s in June 2023.

“我们实际上是分开工作的，”邓说。每个人都会写出一首歌的大部分内容，然后将其展示给对方进行最后的润色。毕业后，这种并行的过程往往是必要的：帕克正在寻找一份工作，在芝加哥和加利福尼亚之间来回穿梭。当他于 2023 年春天定居芝加哥时，他开始为乐队预订演出，并招募音乐家在舞台上支持他和邓。 Sunshy 邀请了大学好友 Gwen Giedeman 担任贝斯手，Park 在 Empty Bottle 演出时认识了 Blinker 鼓手 John Golden。该乐队于 2023 年 6 月在 Cole’s 以四人组合形式首次亮相。

Sunshy got a boost from local shoegaze group Precocious Neophyte after Park learned about them on Reddit and reached out. (Bandleader Jeehye Ham hadn’t yet moved away.) “It’s rare to see other Asian alternative-rock artists in Chicago, let alone a Korean shoegaze act—and they’re really good too,” Park says. “I was going crazy and DMing them. We finally met last year. We’ve been really good friends, and they took us out on our first out-of-town date in Milwaukee.”

Park 在 Reddit 上了解到当地盯鞋乐队 Precocious Neophyte 后主动联系了她们，Sunshy 得到了他们的支持。 （乐队领队 Jeehye Ham 还没有离开。）

“在芝加哥很少见到其他的亚裔艺术家另类摇滚乐队，更不用说是有韩裔艺术家参与的盯鞋乐队表演了——而且他们也非常出色，” 帕克说。 “我快疯了，给他们发私信。去年我们终于见了面。我们一直是很好的朋友，他们带我们去密尔沃基第一次芝加哥城外的演出。”

“They’re so imaginative,” Deng says. “Wesley and I took a lot of inspiration from their songwriting too, when we were writing the newer songs on the album.”

“他们太有想象力了，”邓说。 “当我们在专辑中创作新歌时，韦斯利和我也从他们（ Precocious Neophyte ）的创作中获得了很多灵感。”

Park says he spent at least a year obsessively mixing I Don’t Care What Comes Next to achieve the sound he heard in his head. To help Sunshy pull off the same effect in concert, the group recently added a new member: Jordan Zamansky, who plays synth, sampler, and tambourine. “Having that synth really made our sound feel so full when we’re performing live,” Deng says. “That’s [been] the missing piece in our live performance for a while.”

帕克说，他花了至少一年的时间专注于《I Don't Care What Comes Next》的混音，以实现他在脑海中听到的声音。

为了帮助 Sunshy 在音乐会中复现专辑中同样的效果，该乐队最近增加了一名新成员：Jordan Zamansky，他演奏合成器、采样器和铃鼓。

“当我们现场表演时，拥有这个合成器确实让我们的声音感觉如此饱满，”邓说。 “这一段时间以来一直是我们现场表演中缺失的部分。”