Bottom/ Neil Halstead is an English songwriter and musician. He was a founding member of shoegazer band Slowdive, and is currently the principal singer and songwriter in dream pop/country rock group Mojave 3, also playing guitar in the band. In 2001, 4AD Records released a solo album, Sleeping on Roads. Following his departure from 4AD, a second solo album, Oh! Mighty Engine was released by Brushfire Records on July 29, 2008. The term shoegazer was applied to bands that followed My Bloody Valentine's example of abrasive guitars and ethereal vocals. Middle/ Sumday (V2, 2003) is the third album by indie rock group Grandaddy from Modesto, California. Musically, the band features guitars in the indie rock style, keyboards reminiscent of Philip Glass's minimalist style and vocals in the key of Neil Young. The band's musical style (somewhat classifiable as indietronic) often combines experimental electronic sounds with elements of folk and high-energy rock. Lyrics generally focus on isolation in a high-tech world grafted onto rural America. Top/ Recorded in Brittany, London and Paris, French pop/folk band Cocoon's sophomore album Where The Oceans End (Sober and Gentle, 2010) tells the tale of a boy who meets Yum Yum, a thousand-year old whale believed to swallow people's nightmares and problems, only to regurgitate happiness. Previous releases by Cocoon include EPs I Hate Birds and From Panda Mountains, and the band's 2007 debut My Friends All Died in a Plane Crash.
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