Winona Dryver : Super Flower Scene
Over Super Flower Scene’s relatively short 2 minute runtime, Winona Dryver don’t try to reinvent the wheel. Instead, the Yogyakarta-based shoegaze outfit simply flexes massive fuzzed-out soundscapes, with the impressive driving, urgent nature and emotional depth present on their debut EP First Echo Solution taking a backseat to simply exploring some rather straightforward vibes. With its lyrics simply consisting of names of varied flower species, there’s nothing new or particularly captivating about the track sonically either, seemingly more stripped back - largely harkening back to shoegaze’s roots, with both its accentuated guitar bends and hazy vocal production. Then again, it’s not necessarily a bad thing - by paving new sonic horizons through looking back, Super Flower Scene reveals a path perhaps indicative for Winona Dryver’s way forward.