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American shoegazer OGs Alison’s Halo have been back in action since 2009, but have limited their activities to touring and meticulously mining their archives, though moving at a pace that would make Kevin Shields tap his toes impatiently. Consider their Kickstarter to remix, master, and enhance five Eyedazzler-era tracks for release – it was started […]
So we’re having a bit of a moment of civic pride here in Toronto right now. Our Toronto Blue Jays are back in the World Series for the first time in 32 years – game one tonight! – and one of our most famous musical contributions, Rush, just announced their return after retiring a decade […]
I have pretty much zero regrets about leaving Spotify for Apple Music a few years ago, but will admit that one of the things Spotify did better was their radio playlist after my selected album finished. I could usually happily listen to their suggestions open-endedly, whereas Apple’s algorithm is far less creative, pretty much always […]
Toronto’s own The Neverminds came onto my radar last Spring, not too long after releasing their second EP Nevermind, The Winter, and I was more than happy to share their first video as an introduction last June. That was technically their last bit of officially released media so from a certain perspective it might seem […]
Of all the names I expect to show up in my news feed, Life Without Buildings is damn well near the bottom. To call the Glaswegian quartet a cult band is to give them too much profile; they had a lifespan of three years around the turn of the century, released one album – 2001’s […]
If you’ve been keeping up with Robin Guthrie’s via usual streaming services, you might think 2024’s Astoria EP was his last release and as far as “new” music goes, you’d be right, but swing by his Bandcamp and you’ll find he’s been going through his archives and releasing one-off “orphans” that might otherwise never have […]
Melody Prochet has been relatively quiet since the flurry of Melody’s Echo Chamber activity in 2022-23 that brought us an album of new material and an album of old, an international tour, capped off by a one-off collaboration single with American psych outfit Crumb. This week, she returned with another one-off collab from across the […]
I honestly thought that the arrival today of kurayamisaka yori ai wo komete, the debut full-length from Tokyo’s Kurayamisaka, would have come with a little more fanfare, with their 2022 debut EP kimi wo omotte iru being immediately hailed as a classic of the J-gaze genre and starting the buzz that’s been steadily growing for […]
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 […]
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 […]
