Simply put, Edria is a dream-pop come true. And if you haven't yet heard this Bay Area-based quintet, you're in for a pleasant surprise. Edria's alluring collection of catchy guitar-driven songs, ranging from shimmering pop to moody space-rock, demonstrates a talent for exceptional use of the musical canvas, painting it with colorfully emphatic guitar-strokes from a dizzying pallet of distortion pedals. Unlike other groups sharing influences of past pioneers Cocteau Twins, New Order, Lush, and those lumped under the "shoegazer" umbrella, Edria ambitiously pushes us out from the flattened shadows of post-punk to scale a towering wall-of-sound, luring us forward into a new generation of ethereal pop with creative layerings of sonic guitar lacerations and blissful swirls of lyrical sadness. As if standing vulnerably under a fountain of youth, there is something innocently refreshing about the way Edria’s music splashes in your ear- from the echoing guitar chords strummed with impossible