It’s refreshing to hear elements of early-'90s shoegazing coming from the genre’s homeland once again. That’s not to say that Brighton, England’s Cave Painting is re-creating anything that Slowdive or My Bloody Valentine has already done. On the surface, the opening song to Cave Painting's 2012 debut album, Votive Life, has more in common with American bands like Yeasayer or Fleet Foxes. But the heavily affected guitars that wail and moan underneath those soothing melodies recall the ghosts of dream-pop’s past. The solo in “Leaf” recalls the interplay between Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell circa 1991. “Gator” follows with what sounds like wooden vibraphones; it's an Afropop-based sound that, when matched with such swooning pop, comes closer to old Thompson Twins recordings. And guitarist Harry Smallwood is no one-trick pony. On the standout cut “So Calm,” he effortlessly segues from rhythmic punctuation dusted in subtle reverb to those elongated, underwater notes that can only come from a daisy chain of effect pedals. Throughout Votive Life, frontman Adam Kane croons like a young Chris Martin, especially on the a cappella parts of “Rio.”