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I got into the tangled mess that is Sad Lovers & Giants‘ discography – a shimmering and underappreciated intersection of post-punk and dreampop – a few years ago and it’s somehow gotten even knottier since. I tried to untie some of it but have no idea what is true and speculation regarding the provenance of […]
Like many, I suspect, I found my way to Tokyo’s AprilBlue via the fallout from the disbanding of For Tracy Hyde in early 2022. One of the main questions from distraught fans of the Japanese shoegaze heroes was “what can we listen to now?”, and the easy answer was the (many) other projects from chief […]
There’s a disconnect between the post title and hero image because, well, these old Guitar Player (RIP) covers have nothing to do with the editorial team at gear marketplace Reverb.com. But seeing the latter’s recent feature on The Cure, I was reminded that for a player with the longevity, influence, and distinctiveness that Robert Smith […]
Russian shoegaze masters Blankenberge have been teasing their fourth album since last September, but while the samples of the new record have been expectedly euphoric, they’ve been very light on details about the new album itself. Last weekend, they released their third preview of the new record along with very subtle visualizer, but again resisted […]
I surely would have gotten around to a “hey do you remember” post for Yuck at some point, but after last night, it may as well be now. Without doing an evidence board for it but having lived through it, the UK quartet were part of an ongoing wave of acts who discovered and were […]
Osaka’s Honeydip are another of the class of influential turn of the century Japanese shoegaze bands who missed out on the digitizing their catalogs for the streaming era, thus restricting their work to those who had or were willing to hunt down one of their CDs. They’re remedying that somewhat now, with the release of […]
Because it amuses me, here’s a song with the same name but otherwise completely unrelated the one posted Monday. “Evangeline” was the first non-4AD release by Cocteau Twins, coming out in September 1993 and previewing Four-Calendar Cafe, their first album for Fontana. It was also a notable record for being the first where Elizabeth Fraser’s […]
Weekends are an odd time to release new music but when it’s a Thai-gaze team up between excellent newcomers Slowwves and Bangkok elder statesmen Death Of Heather, I’ll allow it. On Saturday, the former released “Evangeline”, a slow-burning epic of a single with a “featuring” as the kids credit it from the latter, specifically DOH […]
Once upon a time – like 10 years ago or so – if you needed a real atmospheric, synth-drenched ’80s-inspired soundtrack, you’d probably call on Chromatics as that vibe was their stock in trade. Of course, with the band no longer existing following the drawn-out drama of Dear Tommy’s non-release and the departure of 3/4 […]
Fazerdaze returned to North America last year twice – a short solo tour in May around a couple festival appearances, and a more thorough itinerary as a duo supporting Australian psych outfit Pond around the release of her second album Soft Power. The latter included an appearance at Seattle’s KEXP for a four-song live set […]
