Asobi Seksu – “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight)”

Quick one for the holiday. Japanese-American shoegazers Asobi Seksu released this single in 2007, combining a Ramones cover as the A-side with “New Year”, a selection from their then-current album Citrus, for a peak-seasonal mini-release. The following year, they also released an acoustic live version recorded in London for Bandstand Busking, one of the live […]

Alison’s Halo – “Happy”

Arizona’s Alison’s Halo are one of the OG American shoegazers, having formed way back in 1992 and despite going to ground before the turn of the century, remained one of the first names you’d think of when talking about the first wave of the genre from the Americas. They reformed in 2009 for sporadic shows […]

She’s Green / Wisteria

I’m sure that the name of She’s Green is meant to elicit questions – who’s green? Okay, maybe just that one question. But another might be, why does everyone talk about Philadelphia and Austin as being the hotbeds of current American shoegaze when this five-piece is from Minneapolis? On their debut EP Wisteria, released last […]

Airiel – “Hide & Seek”

Thus far, Airiel’s return to fully active duty has consisted of archival releases – the Winks & Kisses EP box set was re-released last year for its 20th anniversary, and their second album Molten Young Lovers given a deluxe reissue this year – and a lot of touring behind said releases. All of which is […]

The Cure – “A Fragile Thing”

And here we are with taste number two of The Cure’s forthcoming Songs Of A Lost World. “A Fragile Thing” is, as Robert Smith put it in a video interview clip reported on by NME: “It’s the ‘love song’ of the album, but it’s not really a love song in the way that [1989’s] ‘Lovesong’ […]