When you get bored of the endless waves of shoegaze-sounding bands crashing against the shores of the emerging indie-alternative scene, where can you go to find something a little bit different?

Peur’s latest track ‘Hollow Skies’ is a good place to start. Not a far cry from those bands, ‘Hollow Skies’ is like shoegaze with added ferocity and testosterone. Opening with a brooding and bubbling effect, the track then explodes out of the implied self-contained bubble with the rough instrumentation of alt-rock but a carefully paced undercurrent that nods its head to the shoegaze movement. This makes for a consistent level of momentum through the track, even with the rise and fall of the instruments themselves.

Along with the carefully constructed sound of the instrumentation, the vocals and lyricism are perfectly fitting too. The vocals soar above the instrumentation, and the emotive high-hitting chorus is the perfect release to artist and audience alike. The vocals are what makes the song exceptional; they hover lightly over the dark heart of the music and allow for moments of complete climactic release.

While a lot of new bands are joining the nugaze movement and embracing a apocalyptically dark wall of sound, Peur are one of the few bands that are able to take the important part – the emotion – of the genre and deliver it with the kind of force new bands should aim for. So if you’re bored of the stereotypical approach to shoegaze, ‘Hollow Skies’ offers a fantastic alternative.

Peur’s new EP, ‘Future Architects’, will be released later this year. And ‘Hollow Skies’ gives us high hopes for it. We previously reviewed the EP’s first single, ‘Explosions’, which you can read here.