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O'Lovely are dreamy, ever-so-slightly hypnotic under the breathy sighs of Laura Lee Watson. Having had her album 'Constellations' engineered by Dale Cotton (HDU, Dimmer), O’Lovely’s debut shifts in instrumental texture, a kind of eeriness that sounds like Phil Spector died and returned as a specter of music’s past. Much like its name, however, ‘Constellations’ retains its form in symmetrical beauty with “clusters of sounds blending together”. It was in Christchurch- New Zealand, late 2008, that the first incarnation of O’Lovely came to be; not long after, an enticing 4 minutes of song found its way to the top of student radio charts. This was ‘A Different Day’, which now finds its place on the album along with the new single ‘Bright Lights’. Similar sounds can be found in the later stages of My Bloody Valentine’s career, or fellow shoegaze pioneers Chapterhouse. A bright past, including slots at Big Day Out in New Zealand and Camp A Low Hum, has lead to Watson relocating to