thecitygates official

After releasing their Forever Orbiter album in 2018 on Northern Light Records (who has released albums from Actors, Black Ferns, Leathers, Rev Rev Rev), Montreal post-punk, shoegaze outfit The City Gates returns with their awaited forthcoming LP Age of Resilience via their own imprint Velouria Recordz in collaboration with Icy Cold Records. The City Gates draw its influences in their 80’s and 90’s alternative musical taste, and artists like The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Chameleons, The Sisters of Mercy, Slowdive, Sonic Youth, and Love and Rockets.

Press
"Richly emotional melancholic soundscape, heaping on reverb, fuzz, and delay". -Post-punk.com

"The band create looming to fulminating atmospheric numbers that swirl with resounding guitar ascension, tugging bass lines, strictly hit drums beats, and sonorous, longing vocals". -The Big Takeover 

"This is dark bliss in sonic form" – The Spill Magazine