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The heavily sought after debut album Ferment by Catherine
Wheel is finally pressed on vinyl again!
In 2016, Pitchfork ranked the album at number 23 in their list of The 50 Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time, with Ben Cardew of the website commenting that a good half of the songs on Ferment, their debut, are enduring shoegaze-disco classics, while Black Metallic, in its full seven-minute glory, makes a strong claim to being the genres Stairway to Heaven.
Ferment is the bands most unique record; it serves as a fitting lens through which to view the groups work throughout the 1990s. The album displays Catherine Wheels early attempts to meld drone-drenched shoegaze with heavy rock.
After all these years, it is the records twin epics, Black Metallic and Salt, that immediately illustrate why Catherine Wheel was so meaningful to so many of the bands that came after them. Black Metallic, perhaps the groups most famous single, is absolutely otherworldly.
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