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If you missed the news, shoegaze OGs Chapterhouse have decided that the 15-odd years since their last reunion tour is long enough and have turned their previously announced appearances at the Slide Away festivals this Spring into a full-on global tour. Following the UK dates came shows in South America and yesterday they released the […]
Velocity Girl continued their slow and steady reunion today with their second archival release, an expanded and remastered version of their 1994 album ¡Simpatico!. Unlike the 2024 reissue of their debut Copacetic which was gussied up enough to earn the title UltraCopacetic, the new release only gets the Remastered and Expanded parenthetically and comes with […]
If it wasn’t clear, the timing of Monday’s post wasn’t random as yesterday marked the official first release of Good Day Father, a new project from Catherine Wheel guitarist Brian Futter featuring vocals from Belly frontwoman Tanya Donelly. So not quite “Judy Staring At The Sun” part two, but certainly very adjacent. “Sonic Amadea” is […]
Catherine Wheel had established their shoegaze bonafides (not that they knew that’s what they were doing) with their first two albums Ferment and Chrome, but made a conscious pivot towards the mainstream with album number three, 1995’s Happy Days. Now keep in mind that in the mid-90s the mainstream was a wide, chaotic landscape but […]
Everyone knows Rachel Goswell from Slowdive. Some also know her from Mojave 3, her post-pre-Slowdive outfit with Neil Halstead. A few also know of her as a principal in indie-supergroup Minor Victories and also The Soft Cavalry, her project with husband Steve Clarke. But not many, it seems, know her as a solo artist, and […]
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 […]
