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The legacy of For Tracy Hyde is pretty set – they were one of the premiere Japanese indie bands, fusing shoegaze, jangle, indie, and J-pop influences into a template for a generation of bands to follow, and broke up in 2023 immediately after releasing their finest album and on the cusp (maybe) of breaking out […]
Sometimes I think about the shoegaze bands of the early aughts who carried the torch for a genre at a time when it was pretty deeply unfashionable. One of those was Los Angeles’ The Meeting Places, who released a couple records in 2003 and 2006 that jangled and reverberated in all those old familiar ways. […]
If we measure things by full-lengths, it’s been a long time since we’ve heard from Taiwan’s Manic Sheep – their last album Brooklyn came out way back in 2017 – but but they’ve not been idle. New EPs have been released in the interim – Deep Dusk in 2019, Morning Fragment in 2023, and Invisible […]
Probably unfairly to the other two members of the band, I had always framed Fear Of Men as Jessica Weiss’ project so when she began releasing solo music as New German Cinema a few years ago, I wasn’t sure what the differentiation was. The production was a more synthetic as befits someone writing on a […]
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 […]
