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If you missed the news, shoegaze OGs Chapterhouse have decided that the 15-odd years since their last reunion tour is long enough and have turned their previously announced appearances at the Slide Away festivals this Spring into a full-on global tour. Following the UK dates came shows in South America and yesterday they released the […]
Though they didn’t seem to make much of a splash in their three-album run, Italian outfit Be Forest are one of my go-tos when I’m in the mood for some icy yet lush post-punk beyond the usual suspects. Specifically, their last album, 2019’s Knockturne, which just knows where to set the flangers and reverbs to […]
There’s never a bad time to revisit The Sound but a recent feature piece in Uncut is the reasoning for my current listening session. Using the recent uptick in interest in the late Adrian Borland’s outfit – specifically the 2016 documentary Walking In The Opposite Direction, the 2023 biography Destiny Stopped Screaming: The Life and […]
Swedish dream-post-punks Makthaverskan are back with their first new record in four years, and if 2021’s For Alting seemed like they were taking their foot off the gas a little bit get a little more contemplative, new single “Pity Party” certainly implies they’ve had their little think and are ready to go full tilt again. […]
One eight-year hiatus aside, Ladytron have been pretty reliable over the past 25 years for releasing collections of sleek-yet-gritty electronic music that’s elevated by their affection for old school analog tech and two elite frontwomen in Helen Marnie and Mira Aroyo. The band has been busy with a long-overdue reissue series (Light & Magic and […]
Five years on from the release of their 2021 self-titled debut, Hong Kong dreampoppers Lucid Express have announced details of their second album, Instant Comfort, out February 20 of next year. Despite the long gap, there wasn’t much doubt that new music would be coming from the five-piece eventually, as they’ve been busy over that […]
We’re still a couple weeks out from Just Mustard dropping album number three, WE WERE JUST HERE, and the band has released their third preview of the new record with maybe the most pop-aligned song of their oeuvre yet… at least as pop as guitars that alternately sound like clouds of razor blades and humpback […]
Lots of on-topic new music in the last little while which we will largely get to in time, but for now let’s ring in October with news of Whitelands’ second album. The London shoegazers teased the follow-up to their 2024 debut Night-Bound Eyes Are Blind To The Day back in June with “Heat Of The […]
There’s been a lot of Asian shoegaze hereabouts. Lots of Japanese, obviously, some Thai, Korean, and reasonable representation from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong. Maybe some others. But what about Nepal? Dost they ‘gaze in Nepal? Yes, they do. OutControlJoys are a trio from Pokhara, Nepal’s second city, who have been crafting uptempo washes of sound […]
Following the breakout success of their third album Sugarcoat, Austin shoegazers Blushing have gone back to their 2019 self-titled debut, given it a fresh remaster, and re-released it on fancy translucent blue vinyl with an A Place To Bury Strangers remix as a bonus track. “Dream Merchants” was one of three videos released from the […]
