Skyless – “About You”

You would think Skyless is a pretty distinctive name and also rather on the nose for a band with shoegazey/dreampoppy inclination but in fact there exist artists with that same name in both dance and hard rock genres and of course streaming services don’t disambiguate them so if you go looking, you’ll find some confusingly […]

Tokyo Shoegazer -『Missing』

I did my deep dive into the many vocalists of Tokyo Shoegazer last month because, as of the day of the release of their latest album Remains, they hadn’t released so much as an advance track, never mind a promotional video, for me to hang a lazy post on. Turns out that clip was running […]

COLLAPSE – “Path”

Amidst the flurry of band dissolution announcements last week, I was alarmed to see this Twitter thread from Tokyo shoegazers COLLAPSE (not to be confused with Tokyo Shoegazer, although singer Shoko Inoue was once part of Tokyo Shoegazer, as you know), announcing: “As of April 2026, Gt.YU will be leaving the band, and going forward, […]

Swallow – “Blow”

I was a teenager in the ’90s, fully immersed in the Alternative Nation explosion at the time, reading every music magazine I could get my hands on and exploring the wild, weird corners of the internet of the time for new sounds, and to my recollection I had never heard of Swallow. If I squint, […]