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Nagoya’s Blurred City Lights released their very good double-EP-slash-second album Utopia/Dystopia earlier this year but today I’m going back not just to last year’s debut 天使のいない街で , but to their second-ever single 「花束」 (aka “Flower”), which they dropped in December of 2022 accompanied by a simple animated video. Why that song, and now? Well this […]
Minneapolis bright young shoegazers She’s Green haven’t been shy about dropping new music whenever they want, but for those of us who still mark time via properly titled and indexed collections, today marks the release of their second EP Chrysalis, following up 2023’s Wisteria. And to kind of answer the question asked in today’s Instagram […]
Premature or prescient? When I poured one out for Brooklyn shoegazers Dirty On Purpose back in May, it was strictly in a “oh hey I remember these guys, maybe you do to?” shout out to my exact musical demographic/generation. Well it turns out that I was far from the only one who had that sense […]
I like a little bit of online synchronicity as much as the next guy – probably more – but the way this post lines up with my first one on Okayama’s 揺れるは幽霊 – or yureruwayurei – is pretty funny. That one chose to showcase「鯨骨群衆」off their debut EP mnemeoid from earlier this year, and was able […]
I’ll probably be just about landing at home in Toronto when this post goes live, but still it seems appropriate to close out this trip with a nod to Ireland’s greatest ‘gazers, My Bloody Valentine, though the country’s claim on the band is not necessarily the strongest. Though they were formed in Dublin, only drummer […]
Carrying on with the “hey I’m in Dublin” series: Just Mustard announced their return to action a couple months ago but haven’t yet revealed exactly what that return entails, at least with regards to new recordings. So while we wait, let’s go back to November 2019, when they released the single “Seven”. Because of its […]
Despite the fact that their DNA is purely post-punk, Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. have not yet graced these pages for a few reasons. One, there’s the fact that they’re already one of biggest ascendent young bands in the world right now, and hardly need more ink from a barely-read blog. Two, I’ve only become a proper […]
It has been exciting to see Tokyo’s Cephalo taking last year’s Fluorite Code international, though only to nearby nations like Thailand and Taiwan, so far. It’s interesting to see the band working that record while frontwoman Fuki also handles promotion for 混乱するアパタイト, the debut album from her other project, the more pop-oriented duo iVy. Also […]
I’m in London this week to catch a show by Ride’s Andy Bell’s side-project which has been dug out of mothballs after many years. No, not that one. Or that one. In any case, being abroad will keep posting brief for the duration, but I am reminded that I’ve never posted – or even seen […]
Manchester’s Tamsin Stephens records and releases music as TTSSFU and while some might complain that it doesn’t fit the classic benchmarks of what gets called dreampop or post-punk, I challenge anyone to come up with better reductive pigeonholes for her hazy, angst-tinged, reverb-drenched bedroom pop. For the record, she accepts the labels gladly: For those […]
