The Game by Seven Hour Days

Seven Hour Days - The Game EP

New single and past recordings.

"Emerging from the sun-faded outskirts of Perth, Seven Hour Days delivers a stunning five-track collection with The Game — a record that doesn’t just channel classic shoegaze influences, it disappears completely into them. The project, led by Australian-born Steve Matzkov, is a solitary meditation on memory, distortion, and the slow drift of time.

Matzkov’s approach is both reverent and refreshingly personal. The Game brings us back to the spirit of shoegaze’s origins — fuzz-drenched guitars swirl and collapse over whisper-soft vocals buried like secrets in a wall of sound. But what sets this project apart is its raw stillness. There’s no urgency here, no need to impress. The EP floats — or maybe decays — at its own pace, like a dream you can’t hold onto but don’t want to forget.

Guitars ring with melancholy, looping into layered textures that feel simultaneously vast and intimate. There’s a warmth to the distortion — a kind of kindness in the chaos — that invites repeated listens. It’s not just nostalgia for the days of Loveless or Nowhere, but a careful reshaping of those emotions through a Western Australian lens: distant, sun-warped, gently eroded.

With The Game, Seven Hour Days doesn’t reinvent the genre. It remembers it — lovingly, quietly, and with depth. This is music made in solitude, but built for anyone who’s ever gotten lost in sound."

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Recording dates:

01. July 2025
02. May 2006
03. February 2006
04. January 2008 - (2025 version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkazbsqw9J8
05. April 2004

Shoegaze from Perth, Western Australia.

Seven Hour Days is the music project from Australian born Steve Matzkov.
Seven Hour Days sound takes us back to the early days of shoegaze; distorted guitar melodies with hidden vocals.