expect delay
Tokyo’s Cephalo are still relative newcomers, but they’ve been very fast with making a name for themselves. Their debut EP Wind Surfing School made waves in the Japanese shoegaze pond on its release last May, and their debut full-length Fluorite Code affirmed their excellence when it followed in December. And in 2025, they’ve somehow managed […]
Venice’s Glazyhaze have had themselves a pretty great year. After rolling out a string of great singles that led into the release of their also great second album SONIC in May, they’ve spent the Fall touring it around Europe. What do you do for an encore? Well, you drop one more song from the SONIC […]
A lot of current Japanese shoegaze exists within its own distinct realm of domestic influences, incorporating enough J-pop, City Pop, emo, etc into its DNA that if someone were to enter the scene with only first-generation western artists as a reference point, they might reasonably not understand why it’s in the same conversation. For those […]
Hatchie is back with album number three this week, and provided a second sneak preview of Liquorice a few weeks ago with “Only One Laughing”. Like “Lose It Again”, which dropped in September with the album details, it finds Harriette Pilbeam very much playing to her strengths with some breezy Cocteaus-meets-Sundays jangle-pop. Says Pillbeam of […]
A little research revealed that The Cure’s “Lullaby”, off of 1989’s Disintegration, is considered by many to be the band’s spookiest – or most Hallowe’enie – track. Not what I would have expected, but considering I’ve already posted the other usual suspects – “Burn” and “A Forest” – we’ll go with this for today’s holiday […]
American shoegazer OGs Alison’s Halo have been back in action since 2009, but have limited their activities to touring and meticulously mining their archives, though moving at a pace that would make Kevin Shields tap his toes impatiently. Consider their Kickstarter to remix, master, and enhance five Eyedazzler-era tracks for release – it was started […]
Thailand’s Slowwves released one of the year’s best shoegaze debuts in Perfect Evasion, which came out back in June. To coincide with the occasion (well, within a few weeks of, anyways), the band recorded a video session at CD Cosmos in their hometown of Bangkok. Over four songs from the album and astonishingly quiet between-song […]
So we’re having a bit of a moment of civic pride here in Toronto right now. Our Toronto Blue Jays are back in the World Series for the first time in 32 years – game one tonight! – and one of our most famous musical contributions, Rush, just announced their return after retiring a decade […]
I have pretty much zero regrets about leaving Spotify for Apple Music a few years ago, but will admit that one of the things Spotify did better was their radio playlist after my selected album finished. I could usually happily listen to their suggestions open-endedly, whereas Apple’s algorithm is far less creative, pretty much always […]
Nashville is not a city that comes to mind when you’re talking about shoegaze hotbeds, but that Total Wife resides in Music City is secondary to the fact that they’re also signed to Philadelphia Ameri-gaze powerhouse label Julia’s War. The prolific duo released their latest album Come Back Down last month, and like many of […]
