For their first release of 2026, Hamburg shoegazers The First Eloi turn inward, confronting the unsettling experience of sleep paralysis with an immediacy that hits like a punch.
Heavy yet dreamlike, Porcelain balances weight and haze with melodic guitar lines and soft, almost ghostly vocals at its core. Rooted in the MBV school of shoegaze, it leans into texture and sensation, tackling the feeling of being trapped between waking and dreaming.
Now operating as a five-piece, The First Eloi sound deeper, fuller, and more fully realized than ever. There’s a kind of confidence and a sense that the band has grown into the scale of the sound they have been chasing.
ZR