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The only reason that New York’s Miss Grit – aka Margaret Sohn – hasn’t appeared in these pages yet despite listening to her for a few years now is that I wasn’t sure if what she was doing fit within the vaguely specific remit of this blog. It’s got thumping drum beats, squelching synths, fuzzed-out […]
We’ve got us another teaser of Whitelands‘ second album Sunlight Echoes ahead of its official release on January 30 of the new year. That makes this the third preview song, if we’re keeping track. Of the soaring, string-laden “Songbird (Forever)”, singer Etienne Quartey-Papafio says: It’s about my friends, the important people in my life, and […]
Swedish dream-post-punks Makthaverskan are back with their first new record in four years, and if 2021’s For Alting seemed like they were taking their foot off the gas a little bit get a little more contemplative, new single “Pity Party” certainly implies they’ve had their little think and are ready to go full tilt again. […]
One eight-year hiatus aside, Ladytron have been pretty reliable over the past 25 years for releasing collections of sleek-yet-gritty electronic music that’s elevated by their affection for old school analog tech and two elite frontwomen in Helen Marnie and Mira Aroyo. The band has been busy with a long-overdue reissue series (Light & Magic and […]
When Tokyo neo-gazers (their term, which I actually quite like) The Floatings pushed back the release of their debut album Flowering from late May citing “production circumstances”, I didn’t think too much of it. At the time, they were one of a number of new-ish J-gaze bands who had a few interesting or enjoyable singles […]
Yesterday’s Radio Dept instagram post sent me down a little rabbit hole – never an unpleasant place to be – but one of the things I discovered was their official website, which I never knew about. To be fair, they’ve had and abandoned a few web presences over the years, and their recent inactivity didn’t […]
Five years on from the release of their 2021 self-titled debut, Hong Kong dreampoppers Lucid Express have announced details of their second album, Instant Comfort, out February 20 of next year. Despite the long gap, there wasn’t much doubt that new music would be coming from the five-piece eventually, as they’ve been busy over that […]
San Franciscans LSD and The Search For God (and with their name and trippy psych-gaze, of course they’re from San Francisco) are one of the more beloved contemporary American shoegaze bands, and to my somewhat surprise they’re still very much an active concern. I first heard of them by way of their 2007 self-titled debut […]
Can you think of a better way to close out the week than with an hour-plus of excellent-quality audio live Cocteau Twins? Maybe you can, but surely this is in the top five. In May 1996, in the midst of touring their final album Milk & Kisses, the Cocteau Twins took part in what was […]
Two bands does not a scene make, but one can’t help notice that Winnipeg has produced two new acts that are staking their claim in the new Canadian shoegaze/dreampop acts to watch. Winnipeg’s Living Hour has been getting international attention for their new record Internal Drone Infinity, and labelmate duo sundayclub has just put out […]
