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Tokyo’s Moon In June may have been born into shoegaze – their 2020 EP 海鳴り doesn’t spare the reverb, distortion, or glide guitar – but they’ve grown through 2022’s extended player Evergreen towards last year’s debut full-length ロマンと水色の街 (“Romance and Soft Blue City”) to reside in a neighbourhood where power pop and dreampop intersect, and […]
Because sometimes, it’s just the right time for some Durutti Column, and that time is now. This here is a quite good live set circa The Return Of/LC – aka at their very best – at a mini-festival in Finland in the Summer of 1981 featuring a number of Factory Records bands, including Vini Reilly […]
I’ve covered shoegaze and dreampop from more than a few Asian locales, but so far nothing from Thailand – let’s fix that! Lesssugär is a four-piece who released their debut mini-album Internet Teenage Lover last year, and as introductions go, it’s an impressive one. They hew more towards the dreampop end of things, favouring cleaner […]
Like many/most who were immediately taken with Alvvays’ dreamy indie-pop from the get-go, I’d prefer not to be reminded that that self-titled debut album came out a full decade ago this week. Especially since I’d been following the band for a full year and half before then, since first seeing the soon-to-be hometown heroes back […]
Started the day with some new Swervedriver news, which is always good news, though not quite the kind of good news that fans were probably hoping for, but let’s focus on the good, shall we? They’ll be putting out a new-ish release on August 30 entitled Doremi Faso Latido. What it is is the third […]
Tom Verlaine is not an artist you ever would have thought would seek mainstream success, but the ’80s were a weird time, and even someone outsider as him wasn’t beyond seeing if there was some room on MTV for the likes of him. So 1987’s Flash Light – his fifth post-Television album – produced a […]
Another act spoken of in hushed tones when speaking of Japanese shoegaze is Shojoskip, though until recently following up on their praise has been a bit tough. The co-ed outfit formed in 2007 and while streaming services have long had their two 2008 releases – Sweet Days and Her Last Kiss, their split album with […]
There was a flurry of new from Cocteau Twins this week, with the announcement that their collaborative album with the late ambient composer Harold Budd – The Moon and The Melodies – was getting a vinyl reissue for the first time since its initial release in 1986 on August 23, featuring a new remaster by […]
Whitelands opened up the year with the best shoegaze debuts of the year in Night-Bound Eyes Are Blind To The Day, and clearly cognizant of the fact that time moves fast and memories are short, they’ve just released a new non-album single to remind you that their lush dreampop is some kind of delicious. Regarding […]
Tokyo trio Hitsujibungaku had their breakthrough – if you define breakthrough as coming onto my personal musical radar – with their 2023 single “More Than Words”, which aside from being an absolute earworm, was used to soundtrack the season-closing scene of immensely popular anime series Jujutsu Kaisen. It wasn’t the band’s first swing at soundtracking […]
