‘Hiko Shrine’, officially released through Bandcamp on Monday 26th January, is the latest album by The Virgance, solo project of Nathan Smith formerly of Ripley and Loveless.

It delivers everything that an experimental, “instrumental shoegaze/dreampop/noiserock” album should. There are intense barrages of guitar looped frenzy, counterbalanced with dazzling washes of ethereal bliss.

‘Hiko Shrine’ is The Virgance’s second album, following the success and critical acclaim of its predecessor, ‘Lost Continent‘ which was released in February 2014.