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Japanese idol-gaze heroes RAY announced details of their fourth album yesterday, and after 2022’s Camellia, which took their album naming convention towards the floral, they’re back to colours – White will be out on October 1. They’ve expanded their influences since their 2020 debut Pink, which owed more than a debt to their former incarnation […]
The burning Marshall cabinet that opens the video for “Lose It Again” might imply that Australian dreampop queen Hatchie is entering her glam rock era, but it’s a feint as it abruptly cuts to Hariette Pilbeam riding in the back of a pick-up truck through the countryside, albeit with the pre-immolation 4×12″ in tow. After […]
Summer’s effectively over so let’s say goodbye with some early Swervedriver. “Rave Down” was the title track from the band’s second EP, coming in November 1990 almost a year before their debut full-length Raise, on which it would feature. The video kind of features a live performance but the visuals are all pretty obscured by […]
Not a lot of time at the moment so will just post up a track that’s been sitting in the queue for a while. Utero is the project of a Hokkaido native Rin Yumegiwa whose background, in addition to being a musician, includes work as “a nurse, idol, and IT engineer”. She was part of […]
Joy Division never made it to America, but in September 1980, just four months after Ian Curtis’ death, the remaining members crossed the Atlantic to play shows under their new guise of New Order, showcasing almost all-new material. The New York show went down September 26 at Hurrah’s, in the Upper West Side, and remarkably […]
Mazzy Star isn’t dreampop by the conventional metrics – lots of acoustic guitars, atmosphere from arrangements and songwriting rather than pedals, strong blues and folk influences – but they’re still held up as one of the pillars of the genre thanks to the haziness intrinsic to Hope Sandoval’s vocals and the late David Roback’s so-tasteful […]
It’s a shame that Gothenburg’s Douglas Heart are so little-known that their Apple Music bio offers the most comprehensive backgrounder on the early aughts dreampop outfit, but at the same time, hats off to K. Ross Hoffman for managing to compile as much information as he did. I’ll refrain from repeating the whole bio, but […]
Nagoya’s Blurred City Lights released their very good double-EP-slash-second album Utopia/Dystopia earlier this year but today I’m going back not just to last year’s debut 天使のいない街で , but to their second-ever single 「花束」 (aka “Flower”), which they dropped in December of 2022 accompanied by a simple animated video. Why that song, and now? Well this […]
Minneapolis bright young shoegazers She’s Green haven’t been shy about dropping new music whenever they want, but for those of us who still mark time via properly titled and indexed collections, today marks the release of their second EP Chrysalis, following up 2023’s Wisteria. And to kind of answer the question asked in today’s Instagram […]
Premature or prescient? When I poured one out for Brooklyn shoegazers Dirty On Purpose back in May, it was strictly in a “oh hey I remember these guys, maybe you do to?” shout out to my exact musical demographic/generation. Well it turns out that I was far from the only one who had that sense […]
