Taste

Taste, the 1989 debut by The Telescopes, pairs droning guitar feedback and heavy reverb with psychedelic and noise-influenced songcraft. Vocals are often buried in the mix, textures favor distortion, echo, and lo-fi production, and arrangements shift between slow, hypnotic drones and sharper bursts of melody. The record captures the band's early interest in the intersection of shoegaze, noise rock, and psychedelia and established the raw, experimental sound that would shape their subsequent work.