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A lot of current Japanese shoegaze exists within its own distinct realm of domestic influences, incorporating enough J-pop, City Pop, emo, etc into its DNA that if someone were to enter the scene with only first-generation western artists as a reference point, they might reasonably not understand why it’s in the same conversation. For those […]
Hatchie is back with album number three this week, and provided a second sneak preview of Liquorice a few weeks ago with “Only One Laughing”. Like “Lose It Again”, which dropped in September with the album details, it finds Harriette Pilbeam very much playing to her strengths with some breezy Cocteaus-meets-Sundays jangle-pop. Says Pillbeam of […]
A little research revealed that The Cure’s “Lullaby”, off of 1989’s Disintegration, is considered by many to be the band’s spookiest – or most Hallowe’enie – track. Not what I would have expected, but considering I’ve already posted the other usual suspects – “Burn” and “A Forest” – we’ll go with this for today’s holiday […]
Thailand’s Slowwves released one of the year’s best shoegaze debuts in Perfect Evasion, which came out back in June. To coincide with the occasion (well, within a few weeks of, anyways), the band recorded a video session at CD Cosmos in their hometown of Bangkok. Over four songs from the album and astonishingly quiet between-song […]
Nashville is not a city that comes to mind when you’re talking about shoegaze hotbeds, but that Total Wife resides in Music City is secondary to the fact that they’re also signed to Philadelphia Ameri-gaze powerhouse label Julia’s War. The prolific duo released their latest album Come Back Down last month, and like many of […]
Just last month I was wondering if one-off collabs were all we could expect from Melody’s Echo Chamber by way of new music – and considering the road Melody Prochet has had to take to get back to doing anything, that would be just fine – but hooray, it turns out that last new single […]
When Kurayamisaka dropped their long-awaited full-length debut kurayamisaka yori ai wo komete last month, I commented that it was odd that for such a long-awaited record, the release rollout was surprisingly muted as far as new content goes (though one could argue that a new album is plenty of new content). As it turns out […]
It wasn’t a surprise that London’s Dry Cleaning had a new record in the hopper – they’ve been respectably prolific since coming on the scene in 2021 and it’s been three years since their last full-length Stumpwork – and just wrapped a short North American tour ahead of more European dates this Fall. This is […]
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 […]
Los Angeles’ Soft Blue Shimmer started their North American tour for third album They Will Leave Us With Nothing last week and will be rolling into Toronto tomorrow night for a show at The Baby G. They were here a couple years ago for a gig at The Monarch, which I missed because I was […]
