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The Belgian quintent may take their name from the Elliott Smith album, but their sonic cues comes from the billowing echoes of the Slowdive-inspired branches of the shoegaze family tree. It’s no coincidence that Simon Scott mastered their third album, 2024’s Temporary Light; one can imagine listening to the record’s chiming guitars and drifting vocals […]
Russian shoegaze heroes Blankenberge will release their long-awaited fourth record Decisions, which I’ve personally been anxiously awaiting for a few years now. They’ve already telegraphed their plans for celebrating the release – they held a Bandcamp listening party last night and are releasing an official video for “New Rules”, which was the first preview track […]
Unofficial archival releases from beloved, departed bands is nothing new so at first I expected that this collection of early demos from Japanese shoegaze godheads Kinoko Teikoku was going to be some kind of sketchy, poor quality MySpace rip or something. Well colour me surprised to learn that The First Mini Demo Album is not […]
Minneapolis shoegaze heroes She’s Green dropped their third single of the year yesterday along with news of their next proper release. To the first item, “Willow” is a brief, burst of kaleidoscopic light – reflected in the tone of the accompanying video – though it comes from a heavier concept: ‘Willow’ reflects on our dying […]
There’s been a lot of Asian shoegaze hereabouts. Lots of Japanese, obviously, some Thai, Korean, and reasonable representation from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong. Maybe some others. But what about Nepal? Dost they ‘gaze in Nepal? Yes, they do. OutControlJoys are a trio from Pokhara, Nepal’s second city, who have been crafting uptempo washes of sound […]
English trio Pale Blue Eyes having been honing their balance post-punk asceticism, indie jangle, New Wave synthesis, krautrock propulsiveness, and dreampop lushness over three records, most lately on New Place, released back in March. It’s a recipe that’s immediately familiar to those of a certain age or streaming service algorithm, but nudges on each genre […]
If there’s a trend in Japanese shoegaze, it’s that the bands and records that are most hallowed are inevitably the ones that dropped one record a decade or more ago that everyone name-checks and adores, then disappeared off the face of the earth. Okay, this is probably quantifiably not true but is most definitely the […]
I’ve been meaning to represent Jay Som on these pages since I started up, but just hadn’t gotten around to it – kind of like how I like all of her records, but just haven’t gotten around to adding any of their physical copies to my collection because, well, I dunno. So with news that […]
As mentioned in today’s mothership ‘gram, Gang Of Four wrapped up their “Long Goodbye” tour this past weekend in Amsterdam, closing the book for good on the legendary post-punk band in all it’s incarnations. At the end of things was original singer Jon King and drummer Hugo Burnham, along with all-star ringers Gail Greenwood and […]
You’ve no idea my excitement when I saw the announcement of a new Blood Orange single a few weeks ago. Not just because I’m a fan – while Dev Hynes doesn’t really fall under the remit of this site, I’ve been a fan since his Lightspeed Champion days – but because listed at the top […]
