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Bandcamp’s editorial department might have been gutted recently, but it’s some comfort to know that what remains is still putting out good content, at least for the moment. For example, last week they published this piece that used the recent Lush reissues as a starting point to guide readers through some very good and thoughtful […]
If Italian trio Be Forest are no longer – a reasonable thing to infer from the fact that their socials have been quiet since 2021 – they leave behind three solid records released over a decade, the most recent of which, 2019’s Knockturne, is as fine an example of icily atmospheric post-punk as you’ll find […]
Blush are Singapore’s entry into the global shoegaze sweepstakes, and within the various cul-de-sacs of the genre, they have something to offer everyone. Gentle female vocals? Check. Sludgy guitars? Check. Soaring guitars? Check. Great melodies and pop hooks? Check. Apparently there’s no shortage of old school emo in their DNA, which I can’t really comment […]
Like many of their post-punk contemporaries who were not Joy Division, Echo & The Bunnymen or The Cure, if The Sound were to be described with one adjective, it would be underappreciated. They released five albums from 1980 to 1987, the first three of which – Jeopardy, From The Lion’s Mouth, and All Fall Down […]
Shoegaze and J-Pop don’t initially seem like the most obvious of bedfellows but it turns out that loud, churning guitars and the super-saccharine sound of Japanese idol groups can be like chocolate and peanut butter. At least that’s the case for the premier – and maybe only – J-pop idol/shoegaze crossover act I know of, […]
It has not gone unnoticed that despite being one of my all-time bands and certainly fitting within in the genre mandates of this site, Luna have not featured in these pages very much. Partly because while they are again an ongoing concern since reuniting in 2014, they’re mostly a touring act with their only new […]
Following an astonishing show in Toronto last night in support of their latest Sit Down For Dinner, a look back at Blonde Redhead’s finest moment, at least from my perspective. The New York trio have always been hard to pin down, stylistically, because their uniqueness keeps them from fitting neatly into any pigeonhole – noise? […]
I don’t need a reason to post a professionally-shot live New Order show, so I won’t offer one. This one comes from June 2012 at the Tempodrom in Berlin, relatively early on in their post-Peter Hook incarnation. The video comes courtesy of Telekom Electronic Beats and while it’s not the complete show, at 45 minutes […]
In the west, album anniversaries are typically celebrated with a reissue, certainly, and usually some manner of remaster the benefits of which may or not be audible but which will certainly be used to justify a bump in MSRP of said reissue. Occasionally, there’ll be a full remix of the album by someone with credentials […]
Today, The American Analog Set are putting out For Forever, their first album since 2005’s Set Free. The band essentially ended at the end of that year, after touring obligations were done, but they did reconvene a few times after that for one-off performances. The second-last of those was back in March 2009 in Austin, […]
