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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 […]
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 […]
