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Videos, live performances, documentaries. Moving pictures. Talkies.
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 […]
I haven’t done one of these Iterations posts in over half a year, so why not break the drought with a band that similarly hasn’t done anything in a long, long, long, long time – The Sundays! Their signature song “Here’s Where The Story Ends” was the second single from their debut 1990 album Reading, […]
Writing has taken a back seat to watching season three of The Bear, but a Cocteau Twins needle drop in episode four reminded me that the show inspired a post(-punk), it did pretty well so why not again? And it’s been a while since I shared any Cocteaus, and it’s always the right time for […]
One of the more exciting/interesting new acts out of Japan to my ears is Tokyo’s Beachside talks. They made their debut last Winter with the Marble Town EP, which showcased their sweet, Sundays-esque jangly dreampop and if that was their whole vibe, that’d be more than enough. But the two new singles they’ve rolled out […]
I’m old enough to remember seeing the original The Crow in theatres – a cool movie, but not a good movie – and also the ubiquity of the soundtrack, which opened with what I think is now regarded as one of The Cure’s greatest non-album tracks, “Burn”. It’s the 30th anniversary of the film – […]
I’ve been around long enough to accept that sometimes acts just disappear quietly, without an announcement or farewell release or tour. That’s probably more the norm than the exception. That said, I hold out hope that the radio silence from Maria Lindén of I Break Horses is just part of her pattern of going incommunicado […]
I’ve been waiting for MONO to announce some North American dates in support of their new record Oath, so I should be happy that they did yesterday, but three US dates in mid-December isn’t quite what I had in mind. Sure, they’ll be orchestral shows to fully showcase the widescreen splendor of the new record, […]
Having had a brilliant 2023, London dreampoppers deary have thus far devoted this year to touring their debut EP and releases have been limited to some remixes and live tracks. But they’ve finally returned with some new material in the form of “The Moth”, a new single that continues the campaign of resurrecting the ’90s […]
