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Inspired by yesterday’s IG post reminding myself how much I liked School Of Seven Bells back in the day, here’s the video for “Windstorm” , the opening track from their second album, 2010’s Disconnect From Desire. As the band has been firmly left in the past with the passing of Benjamin Curtis in 2012 and […]
Happy New Year, not only from me, but also from Parannoul who rang in 2026 with a new single. “연말 다짐” – which translates to “Year-end Resolutions” – showed up online on New Year’s Day via an Instagram story with the caption, “Happy 2026 – I Hope To Achieve Something This Year”. To imply that […]
For most of the world, December – particularly the end of December – is a dead zone for releasing new music but in Japan, it’s business as usual. Hence after a 2025 that was already busy enough with a new EP Seasons in March and album number four – White – coming out in September, […]
This was kinda going to be a holiday post but the holidays got busy, as they do, and I didn’t get around to it in time. But considering that the song – despite a certain bit of window dressing – is not a holiday song, that’s probably okay. “Red Over White” was a Siouxsie & […]
Irish noisegazers Just Mustard returned with their third album WE WERE JUST HERE a couple months ago, but are saving their full-throttle promotional activities for 2026 – they’ll be covering Europe, the UK, and North America over the course of two months next Spring. The North American leg kicks off in Seattle in May, and […]
The trope of multi-instrumentalist dude and ghostly-voiced girl is a familiar one in dreampop – some might want to use the word cliche – but there’s a reason it persists; when it hits, it hits just right. Slow Salvation score pretty high on both precision and accuracy, with Nashville’s Travis Trevisan (formerly of Tape Deck Mountain) […]
I’ve been intermittently tracking Tokyo’s KILDREN for a little while now, both because I like their music and because I’ve found their ongoing identity evolution interesting to watch. To recap, their first singles in Spring 2024 placed them firmly on the pop side of the J-gaze spectrum, but a year later they scrubbed those songs […]
Somehow lost in the rollout of Hatchie’s third album Liquorice last month was that, following what had been a pretty conventional rollout of singles/videos leading up the record’s street date – “Lose It Again” in September, “Only One Laughing” in October – there was a big ol’ video dump on release day, consisting of an […]
Tokyo dreampoppers Moon In June have rightly been spending this year promoting their second album 色彩を持たないで, which came out back in April, so it was a bit of a surprise to see them promoting the release on a new 7″ single that came out last week that is, in fact, anything but new. Put out […]
There’s never a bad time to revisit The Sound but a recent feature piece in Uncut is the reasoning for my current listening session. Using the recent uptick in interest in the late Adrian Borland’s outfit – specifically the 2016 documentary Walking In The Opposite Direction, the 2023 biography Destiny Stopped Screaming: The Life and […]
