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The deary model for shoegaze success worked pretty well last year – open the year with a great new song that ticks all the boxes, follow up with a full release that doesn’t disappoint courtesy of Sonic Cathedral, and open up for Slowdive – so why not try it again? London’s Whitelands aren’t following the […]
That Ride have been sitting on a finished new album for some time isn’t a secret; it’s been in the can since at least early Fall. But perhaps they wanted to wait until the attention around Slowdive’s new record had crested – at least initially – before raising their hand. In any case, they’re welcoming […]
While I’ve had some Pinkshinyultrablast in my library for a while, it hasn’t been in heavy enough rotation such that when I discovered and fell for fellow Saint Petersburg shoegazers Blankenberge, they stylistic parallels weren’t immediately obvious to me. But now that I hear it, I can’t really unhear it. And it figures – Pinkshinyultrablast […]
For whatever the accolade is worth, Parannoul has been the premiere Korean shoegaze artist for some time now, with his three albums garnering increasing praise, up to and including last year’s After The Magic, which was one of the few examples of the genre to crack year-end lists despite 2023 being the year “The Shoegaze […]
Our final post for the year comes from Philadelphia, courtesy of Knifeplay and their For The Holidays EP. They’ve been putting out seasonal songs the last few years and have, for 2023, compiled them together along with a haunting Counting Crows cover, selling it digitally and directing all proceeds to the Broad Street Ministry, dedicated […]
As expected, Slowdive’s Fall North American tour has yielded a new in-studio session, this one recorded for Los Angeles’ legendary KCRW. In addition to the five-song set, there’s a print interview with the band about everything is alive and the cross-generational appeal of their music. Your fanbase is on par with the same demographic as […]
As mentioned, London’s deary have had quite a good year, the high point probably being a toss up between releasing quite an excellent debut EP or playing to thousands when opening for Slowdive’s UK dates. But they weren’t stopping there, instead offering fans a final holiday gift in the form of a dreamy cover of […]
It’s the home stretch to the holidays, so it’s about time I get the festive fare I’ve been sitting on out into the world. We’ll start way back in 1991, when Ride, a couple months after the release of their debut album Nowhere, released a single-sided 7″ for sale at a fan club gig in […]
One of the fun things about shoegaze as a genre is that being musically on the nose isn’t a detriment; in fact, for a lot of fans, it’s a plus. Phoenix, Arizona’s Glixen certainly sound like a lot of bands you’ve heard before – in fact, a lot of bands you’ve heard right here – […]
As mentioned before, the conventional wisdom around Tokyo’s Kinoko Teikoku is their first two records were the ‘gazey ones, and after that they went more conventional indie rock or broadened their sonic palette, depending on how you want to look at it. But whatever your perspective, their later albums still had some great material – […]
