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Fazerdaze technically returned from the wild last Summer, with a handful of singles leading to the digital release of her Break! EP last October. But those who got their hands on the physical 12″ – released last Fall in Australia and the rest of the world just last week – found a little surprise in […]
I’ve yet to go fully down the rabbit hole of Japanese shoegaze and dreampop as it is both vast and deep, but if and when I do, it will probably be Toyko quartet yuragi that leads me there. They won me over with their initial short-players – 2016’s Nightlife EP and 2018’s epic mini-album Still […]
At a casual glance of their discography, you might think that Echo & The Bunnymen‘s cover of Television’s “Friction” was a live staple for the band in the ’80s – it certainly seems to appear on a lot of releases, both official and unofficial. But as it turns out, there seems to be only the […]
Dry Cleaning made their name the old fashioned way with a run of critically acclaimed singles and EPs long before dropping an album, and even they’ve graduated to two critically acclaimed full-lengths, they still love the abbreviated formats. Earlier this week, they announced they were coming out with a new extended play in the Swampy […]
Still Corners have undergone a number of transformations over their fifteen-plus years, from a band to a duo, and shifting from cinematic psychedelica to synth-forward dreampop to dusty Americana. I prefer some phases over others, but as they’re always centred around Tessa Murray’s breathy vocals and Greg Hughes’ atmospheric guitarwork, there’s usually something to fit […]
I guess bloggers grieve with content dumps. While I’ve been marking the passing of Tom Verlaine by constantly collecting and updating my memorial piece – if you’ve not been since Monday, there’s a lot more good stuff there, including tributes from Patti Smith and Dean Wareham – bootleg Tumblr Doom & Gloom From The Tomb […]
I’m just to get this out there and out of my drafts folder, and make it three Cure pieces three Fridays in a row. And they’ve all been on Fridays because, well, duh. The 30th anniversary deluxe of edition of Wish finally came out a few weeks ago – digitally and in Record Store Day […]
Even though they clearly exist, it always surprises me when I come across official music videos for songs that were released before the MTV era, because… where were they played? For example, this clip for one of Magazine’s signature songs, “The Light Pours Out Of Me”. The album from which it came – their debut […]
New York shoegazers DIIV are a few years on from their last studio record, 2019’s Deceiver, but have had a very busy 2022 with a months-long European tour this Summer following on from a handful of North American festivals in the Spring. But for those of us who weren’t anywhere near those shows, they’ve got […]
Back catalog reissues from Ride have come over the past years in drips and drabs – Nowhere was re-pressed on wax in 2010 and 2015, Going Blank Again in 2012, and all as limited editions – but today marks the first widely-available, multi-title reissue campaign for the band. The band’s first four EPs – Ride, […]
