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A lot has happened since Saint Petersburg’s Blankenberge released their 2021 album Everything – Russia invaded Ukraine, the band relocated to somewhere/anywhere else (their last publicly announced whereabouts was Serbia), and I fell in love with their music. Not necessarily in that order. But given the extenuating circumstances, it’s understandable that it took the band […]
So here it is, more than 16 years after the last new official single from The Cure, the first taste of their new album Songs Of A Lost World, officially set for release on November 1. Let’s put aside for now the fact that they’ve promised this record for almost two years now and already […]
Fazerdaze’s return to active duty appears to be complete; following a post-Morningside retreat she took tentative steps back to music in 2022 with the Break! EP and a return to touring at home and abroad in 2023. This year, she committed to opening up the entirety of Pond’s North American tour this November, implying that […]
It’s impossible to get into the Japanese music scene even a little without encountering the world of idols, and by extension, alt-idols, which basically is the combination of idols with alternative music genres (see: Babymetal). It’s strange and fascinating and actually quite entertaining live – I saw Planet After The Rain at a shoegaze showcase […]
Japanese dreampop and shoegaze as a scene is hardly dour, but Kyoto’s MoritaSaki In The Pool bring an extra level of fun and whimsy to things without getting too twee or saccharine. That, and their dual boy-girl vocals from Riku Ishihara and Natsumi Heike, is their unique selling proposition and looks to be in full […]
Sad news from The House Of Love camp; Guy Chadwick took to Facebook last week to announce the passing of guitarist/vocalist Andrea Heukamp. We only just heard the sad news of the passing of Andrea Heukamp who died in 2022. Andrea was in the band at the start until she left to go home to […]
I do like it when my personal Instagram, wherein I share pics from my ever=aging concert photo archives, intersects with this blog because it usually means I can save myself some writing on one end or the other. Case in point – today’s release of Velocity Girl’s UltraCopacetic, which revisits and rejuvenates their 1993 debut […]
Patron saint of anonymous Asian bedroom shoegazers Parannoul sort-of-surprise-released his new album Sky Hundred this past Saturday. I say “sort-of” because he’d hinted at it via his socials this past week, showing screen shots of tracklistings, and he’d released a new single from it this past May; sure, it could have been a one-off, but […]
Tokyo’s Moon In June may have been born into shoegaze – their 2020 EP 海鳴り doesn’t spare the reverb, distortion, or glide guitar – but they’ve grown through 2022’s extended player Evergreen towards last year’s debut full-length ロマンと水色の街 (“Romance and Soft Blue City”) to reside in a neighbourhood where power pop and dreampop intersect, and […]
Japanese-American shoegazers Asobi Seksu‘s final full-length album was 2011’s Fluorescence, but their final release of new music came in November of 2012, with a Record Store Day release. It was a 7″ split single with Japanese noise-rock gods Boris wherein each covered one of the other’s songs. Appropriately, Asobi Seksu took “Farewell” from Boris’ 2005 […]
