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The famous may be in Toronto right now for TIFF, but the otaku will be at The Horseshoe for the next two nights as this year’s edition of Next Music From Tokyo kicks off. The four-band lineup of Japanese indie acts is always a mix of new and familiar (assuming your frame of reference is […]
For a discography as long and deep as The Cure’s, there’s surely going to be some missed gems but I’m quite surprised I’d never heard their 2001 single, “Cut Here” before it showed up in my algorithm recently. Okay, maybe not that shocking – I can’t say that I was paying much attention to The […]
London quintet sadplanet threw their hats into the ring with a trio of singles spread out across 2024 but have waited until now to make their proper first statement via their debut EP Slowing Down, which came out last week. Their output has affirmed their understanding of and respect for the dogma of English dreampop […]
Most of the discourse around Sad Lovers & Giants hereabouts has focused on their earliest works and specifically the labyrinthine mess of singles, EPs, albums, and compilations that make finding and owning the material that cemented them as one of the best overlooked bands of early post-punk and new wave so frustrating. In doing so, […]
The two stages of Kinoko Teikoku’s career are pretty clearly delineated into their indie era and their major label era, each covering three of their six total albums (though trainspotters would probably draw that line one album earlier, into shoegaze/non-shoegaze). Their two 2018 digital “introduction to” compilations were split as such and their vinyl reissue […]
I usually don’t have too much trouble deciding if I am going to title a post about non-English bands with their native language or the translations – I generally prefer the former because it’s more “authentic” and I’m pretentious like that – but I had to think hard about this one, mostly because the English […]
Sometimes I can’t put a finger on what it is that makes one band’s sound appealing to me while another might bore me, but in the case of London’s World News, I knew what it was immediately – they love the flanger. Or more importantly, they love it the right way – speed low, resonance […]
My socials keep me pretty aware of any time Slowdive performs live anywhere around the world, but last weekend’s show supporting The Cure and Mogwai in Edinburgh seemed particularly amplified, what with friends and celebrities also in attendance, and so my usual FOMO-proof self was a little sad. Not that hopping on a plane to […]
While they still haven’t moved into the “writing new music in the 21st century” phase of their career, Alison’s Halo have at least taken the intermediary step of recording and releasing new music written by someone else in the 21st century. Actually, check that. “Stuck”, which was written by Panchiko, whom they toured with last […]
Completely at odds with most prevailing trends in the shoegaze/dreampop space, Los Angeles’ Bubble Tea & Cigarettes make songs so delicate they sound as though made of spun glass. I missed their set last month headlining Loveless Fest, but did catch them last year at The Drake Underground and while I was expecting something exceedingly […]
