Audio Cassette review:
Catherine Wheel - Ferment

Catherine Wheel - Ferment

Band: Catherine Wheel Title: Ferment Rating: Release Date: 09 June, 1992 Media: Audio Cassette Tracks: 1: Texture 2: I Want to Touch You 3: Black Metallic 4: Indigo Is Blue 5: She's My Friend 6: Shallow 7: Ferment 8: Flower to Hide 9: Tumbledown 10: Bill and Ben 11: Salt 12: Balloon

Editoral Review For what it's worth, Catherine Wheel get a mention in the liner notes of the Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream. One of the finest albums to arise out of the shoegazing trend coating the early 1990s, Ferment is rich, lush, and wrenching. Perhaps it's indicative of the fact that this album rocks a little harder than the genre-defining releases from the likes of the Stone Roses, the Charlatans, and the Inspiral Carpets. Ferment includes guitar solos, albeit tasteful guitar solos, that most of Catherine Wheel's contemporaries would have balked at. Later releases abandon the ethereal noise wash, leaning a little more toward the sound of their admirers the Pumpkins. A beautiful, spiraling release, Ferment is pliable but impenetrable. --Beth Bessmer .. You can see a complete list of all Catherine Wheel discography, or go back to the Catherine Wheel tabs