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Just as he opened the new year with a (so far) one-off song, Korean shoegaze maestro Parannoul has welcomed the Summer with another new song. This follows three new releases through the Spring as Mydreamfever, so it’s likely that he – as much as his audience – needed to go back to the loud guitars, […]
When RAY dropped a new standalone single in “Sagittarius” in the last days of 2025 I was quite excited, not just because it was another release in a busy year from the alt-idol group, but because it was an unexpected songwriting collaboration with Kurayamisaka, who themselves were capping a great and busy year, and it […]
I spent most of 2025 pretty high on Tokyo’s The Floatings and their debut album Flowering so it was kind of bittersweet when they pre-empted the big news of making my year-end list by announcing that singer re:caco was leaving the band. What I missed in that announcement was their promise of one more song […]
Vini Reilly’s 2023 interview with The Guardian has stayed with me in a way that not a lot of the entertainment media that I consume has. While it’s not unusual for artists to quietly withdraw from releasing new material as they get older, the details of The Durutti Column’s silence – specifically the stroke he […]
I’ve been a committed Luna fan for about 30 years now, starting from the day I bought a copy of Bewitched during university at the Kitchener location of The Beat Goes On when I probably should have been studying instead of cruising the used CD bins of the Kitchener-Waterloo region. And, from those very first […]
So yes, I’ve been somewhat stuck on the topic of bands breaking up or apart in the last while, but I would be remiss to not point out that some are also coming back out of extended hibernations. 宇宙ネコ子, aka Uchu Nekoko, aka Universe Nekoko, aka Space Cat, aka the mysterious Kanagawa dreampop duo wholly […]
And the hits just keep coming, but not the good kind of hits – more the body blow sort. Proving that shoegazers disbanding isn’t a phenomenon restricted to Japan, one of the bright new lights of the shoegaze scene – London’s Whitelands – abruptly announced their dissolution yesterday, effective immediately. Beyond the band’s statement, there’s […]
Venetian shoegazers Glazyhaze have returned with their first new song of the year, described as “a rock song with a pop heart, suspended between the warmth of the night and the quiet intimacy of early morning light”. The song arrived last week mostly without comment, so it’s not clear if it’s a one-off or the […]
Hello – here with a quick check-in as I recover from vacation and try to get re-acclimated to life at home. As a band, Ride are pretty online with a regular presence on all your usual platforms and channels, but did you know they had a Bandcamp? No, not the rideox4.bandcamp.com site that offers all […]
You’d be forgiven for thinking that current Hong Kong shoegaze starts and ends with Lucid Express – they’re certainly the flag-bearers – but if Apple Music’s RIYL algorithm is to be believed, HK’s Tofu Kingdom are right up there as well. You’d be forgiven for wanting to dismiss them on the basis of their name […]
