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Less than two weeks before Gang Of Four are set to kick off the North American leg of their farewell tour, the band have bid a farewell of their own with the passing of original bassist Bruce Allen this weekend. In an official statement, Hugo Burnham said: It is with broken yet full hearts that […]
They may take their name from one of the more meditative singles in Slowdive’s oeuvre, but Athenian dreampoppers Sugar For The Pill occupy a different musical track, one more uptempo and sun-dappled than their namesakes, thanks in large part to Vana Rose’s soft yet strong vocals and their gift for crafting a strong hook. Some […]
Technically, Catherine Wheel marked the 30th anniversary of their second album Chrome in a timely manner with a mandatory vinyl reissue of the album in August 2023 (to go with the one six years earlier), but the band – or their representatives – aren’t quite done celebrating. They’ve prepared some new shirts – their first […]
Keeping up with Japanese bands when you don’t have any real kind of understanding of the language is… imprecise at best. You have a fighting chance with the acts who exist at least at a cursory level in English, but those who transact mainly in Japanese kanji will always remain, at some level, a mystery […]
Austin’s Ringo Deathstarr are one of those bands that I’ve always meant to spend more time with than I have, despite having had ample opportunity – they’ve been at it for nearly 20 years – and having already even seen them live, but I just haven’t done more than a few drive-by passes through their […]
“Steve Queralt featuring Emma Anderson” is a little more of a mouthful than, say, “Ride featuring Lush“, but when the first preview of the Ride bassist’s debut solo album comes with vocals from Lush’s co-frontwoman – truly a confluence of OG shoegazers – you pay attention. And when that preview slaps – in the millennial […]
When we last checked in with Venice, Italy’s Glazyhaze, they’d just announced details of their second full-length album SONIC and shared the second of three preview tracks from the album. Well the album arrived this past Friday and with it came another video for latest single “Slap”. Which, in the parlance of our time, this […]
I’ve mentioned before that my descent into the deep, bottomless rabbit hole of Japanese shoegaze began in early 2022 with For Tracy Hyde’s final record Hotel Insomnia, but navigating the scene over there – which goes back 15 to 30 years, depending on which thread you pull on – is no easy task, particularly when […]
You’d be forgiven for thinking that everything was and would remain quiet in Chapterhouse-land, what with the OG shoegazers having done the reunion thing way back in 2010 and having cleared out the archives with their expansive six CD Chronology box set in 2023. You might have missed out on that set what with it […]
Every once in a while I’ll wonder what The Radio Dept. are up to, and the answer is usually posting anti-fascism messages on their Instagram – their only active internet presence – and not crafting more beautifully melancholic lo-fi dreampop… and, honestly, it’s hard to fault them for that, all things considered. But that doesn’t […]
