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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 […]
When Tokyo neo-gazers (their term, which I actually quite like) The Floatings pushed back the release of their debut album Flowering from late May citing “production circumstances”, I didn’t think too much of it. At the time, they were one of a number of new-ish J-gaze bands who had a few interesting or enjoyable singles […]
Yesterday’s Radio Dept instagram post sent me down a little rabbit hole – never an unpleasant place to be – but one of the things I discovered was their official website, which I never knew about. To be fair, they’ve had and abandoned a few web presences over the years, and their recent inactivity didn’t […]
San Franciscans LSD and The Search For God (and with their name and trippy psych-gaze, of course they’re from San Francisco) are one of the more beloved contemporary American shoegaze bands, and to my somewhat surprise they’re still very much an active concern. I first heard of them by way of their 2007 self-titled debut […]
Two bands does not a scene make, but one can’t help notice that Winnipeg has produced two new acts that are staking their claim in the new Canadian shoegaze/dreampop acts to watch. Winnipeg’s Living Hour has been getting international attention for their new record Internal Drone Infinity, and labelmate duo sundayclub has just put out […]
Tokyo’s Cephalo are still relative newcomers, but they’ve been very fast with making a name for themselves. Their debut EP Wind Surfing School made waves in the Japanese shoegaze pond on its release last May, and their debut full-length Fluorite Code affirmed their excellence when it followed in December. And in 2025, they’ve somehow managed […]
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 […]
