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With the confirmation that the current lineup of The Chameleons is in the studio recording new music, let’s take a quick look back at the release that was supposed to be their fourth album following 1986’s Strange Times. But as is typical in the stories of bands who are doomed to be under-appreciated, fate intervened. […]
There’s anti-marketing, and then there’s what Seoul’s Della Zyr is doing. If you were to stumble across her YouTube channel, you’d find a handful of videos of a young woman playing shoegaze cover songs in her bedroom; excellently done, certainly, but not unusual in 2024. Her Instagram offers somewhat more; it’s only four posts deep, […]
Maybe this takes the prize for fastest turnaround of a complete live set. Slowdive are currently touring Europe in support of everything is alive, and here’s a recording of last week’s show in Paris at La Cigale. The recording by Unartig is an interesting balance of professional and amateur. There’s multiple cameras going on but […]
Taking a quick dip today into Magazine’s second album – 1979’s Secondhand Daylight – thanks to a guitar lesson from John McGeoch disciple Adrian from Anyone Can Play Guitar. He took a deep dive into “Rhythm Of Cruelty”, the only single released from the album, which reminded me what a great tune it was and […]
As I mentioned on my main Instagram, I’m ready to be part of the critical re-evaluation of Swervedriver’s 1998 one-time swan song 99th Dream, thanks to its new deluxe reissue which I happened to find at a very decent price and thought, “why not”. I bought the album on CD when it was first released […]
Just a quick one for today, in the form of the first complete live show of the year. It’s far from a professional video – no AI remastering here, no sir! – but the audio is surprisingly good and the front-row perspective, handheld handycam quality of the footage offers a compelling fly-on-the-wall quality to the […]
Here’s another entry from the promising Asian bands who may or may not still exist. Swiimers hail from Seoul, South Korea and released a handful of singles a few years ago that were compiled as a self-titled EP in 2016. Combining the delicacy of dreampop with some of the dynamism of post-rock and glitchy electronic […]
The deary model for shoegaze success worked pretty well last year – open the year with a great new song that ticks all the boxes, follow up with a full release that doesn’t disappoint courtesy of Sonic Cathedral, and open up for Slowdive – so why not try it again? London’s Whitelands aren’t following the […]
That Ride have been sitting on a finished new album for some time isn’t a secret; it’s been in the can since at least early Fall. But perhaps they wanted to wait until the attention around Slowdive’s new record had crested – at least initially – before raising their hand. In any case, they’re welcoming […]
While I’ve had some Pinkshinyultrablast in my library for a while, it hasn’t been in heavy enough rotation such that when I discovered and fell for fellow Saint Petersburg shoegazers Blankenberge, they stylistic parallels weren’t immediately obvious to me. But now that I hear it, I can’t really unhear it. And it figures – Pinkshinyultrablast […]
