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Though they didn’t seem to make much of a splash in their three-album run, Italian outfit Be Forest are one of my go-tos when I’m in the mood for some icy yet lush post-punk beyond the usual suspects. Specifically, their last album, 2019’s Knockturne, which just knows where to set the flangers and reverbs to […]
We’ve not had much news from Savages in a while, beyond updates of the members’ various solo projects which really just affirm that Savages are continuing to do nothing as a band. So a dispatch this week marking the decade anniversary of their second (and final, to date) record Adore Life was an unexpected treat, […]
I’ve mentioned that I’ve been increasingly fascinated with Japanese group RAY, who are both shockingly prolific and utterly committed to the concept of shoegaze idol bands. If you browse some of their live footage, you’d think it’s mainly the five girls singing and performing over canned backing tracks and it often is, but some of […]
I was going to say “London’s Daughter” but considering that the three members are now scattered across the globe, the geographic qualifier seems misplaced. I believe the logistics, amongst other factors, were why the band didn’t tour or play live (almost) at all for their last record, 2023’s Stereo Mind Game, which means if you […]
Favourites hereabouts since the Fall of 2024, Thai-gazers Slowwves came really close to taking the final spot on last year’s best-of list with their debut album. Perfect Evasion just missed the cut despite being an excellent collection of ’90s-slathered melancholy that inches pretty close to but stays on the right side of my grunge-gaze red […]
After three years with tireless shoegaze champions Sonic Cathedral, London trio deary have announced they are leaving the label. In an Instagram post, they thanked Slabel head Nathaniel Cramp for everything he’d done for them and enumerated all their releases under the marque, including two proper EPs – 2023’s deary and 2024’s Aurelia – and […]
Minneapolis’ She’s Green had themselves quite a 2025, going from secret darlings of /r/shoegaze to international touring concern – they just landed in China today – but surely the highlight of the year was landing themselves on my year-end list with their slightly confusing but undisputedly wonderful releases, the physical issue of Wisteria and new […]
Since I’ve switched to Apple Music for streaming in 2022, it has been very insistent that the most appropriate autoplay selection for whatever album I’ve just finished is Beach House. And not just any Beach House song, but almost always “Space Song”. Sometimes “Myth”, sometimes “Silver Soul”, but most often is “Space Song”, and I’ve […]
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 […]
