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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 […]
Speaking of acts who kept the torch of shoegaze alive in those years where things were darkest, let’s talk about Rhode Island’s The Brother Kite. Which, as those who’ve followed me over here from past endeavours, know that I have. Their 2006 record Waiting For The Time To Be Right was, for a long time, […]
Just to send the week out on an old-school note, here’s the complete performance by Ride at the 2017 edition of Pitchfork Music Fest in Chicago. This was part of their Weather Diaries tour, so kick back for an hour and watch as the boys as they transition from a legacy act to a current […]
There’s no interesting “how I found this local band” story for Softcult; the sister-duo of Phoenix and Mercedes Arn-Horn are the biggest local name for shoegaze right now, though if you’re being accurate they’re from Kitchener, not Toronto (me too!) and while some of their catalog definitely checks all the genre boxes, they could just […]
Two things are certain if you enter into any discussion online about must-listen Japanese shoegaze bands. One, that someone will list Kobe’s Mass Of The Fermenting Dregs (with numerous seconds), and two, that someone will make a point of saying that they are not shoegaze. Both of these things are, in fact, true. While you […]
Chicago’s Airiel were one of the acts who kept the shoegaze flag waving in the fallow years for the genre, forming in the late ’90s and making their name with the Winks & Kisses series of EPs in the early aughts, leading up to their 2007 debut album The Battle Of Sealand and its follow-up […]
And now, strange ways to discover local bands, part two. It shouldn’t be any surprise I follow a number of Japanese shoegaze concert promoters on socials; I find it a good way to discover new acts from that part of the world. Recently, I’d noticed a series of posts and ads from one of them, […]
I know I just posted a song by Kurayamisaka a week and a half ago, but they literally released this new song the next day… and I didn’t have anything else ready for today, so why not one of the top earworms of the last while?. Any fears the band were getting too gentle over […]
Rabbit holes are funny things. A couple days ago, conscious of the fact that I was spending a lot of time digging up worthy new shoegazey-and-adjacent bands from around the world, I was possibly/probably ignoring new talent closer to home. So leveraging the crack researching skills I developed over a decade plus of music blogging, […]
Lots of things about Los Angeles’ Draag hint that they’d like to be perceived as darker/gothier/heavier than they are – album and song titles sound like they would talk at length about their level 30 half-elf figher-magic user, given the chance, but musically, they’re just too pretty to pull it off. That’s not a slight, […]
