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There’s not much on Just For A Life, a tribute album to Slowdive curated by now-defunct shoegaze blog The Blog That Celebrates Itself, that would have caught my eye or ear when it was released in 2017 – I knew the songs, obviously, but none of the artists. Ten years later, I still have never […]
Even if she didn’t make lushly icy dreampop that draws as much from the trip-hop scene of the ’90s as the shoegaze, Yndling – the musical project of Oslo’s Silje Espevik – would probably elicit those same sorts of adjectives just from how her Norwegian accent wraps around every syllable she sings. It’s the sound […]
A lot of bands I cover here fit very well into genre pigeonholes, and a lot of those like being in those pigeonholes and a lot of their fans like them in those pigeonholes, and that’s all fine. But sometimes there’s bands who don’t really fit into any kind of strict category, and because one […]
Luna return to Toronto tonight for the first time in seven years, settling in at Lee’s Palace, the room I saw them in every time before they bid farewell almost 22 years ago. Post-reunion they’ve played bigger and smaller rooms, but returned to Lee’s for their last visit in 2019 and it just feels right. […]
If the return of The Radio Dept. to both the stage and the studio this year wasn’t cause enough for celebration, they’re also returning to record stores this year. Or more specifically, their second album – Pet Grief – will mark its 20th anniversary with a limited edition vinyl reissue on November 13. This isn’t […]
We’ve got a rare foray into semi-self promotion today. The “semi-” because Blue Drops, the forthcoming debut album from Toronto’s Azure Rose, does not feature me in any way, shape, or form. It’s the solo project from Justin Grant, formerly of Toronto bands Fjord Rowboat and Bluescreen, both staples of the local ’00s shoegaze scene […]
While they still haven’t moved into the “writing new music in the 21st century” phase of their career, Alison’s Halo have at least taken the intermediary step of recording and releasing new music written by someone else in the 21st century. Actually, check that. “Stuck”, which was written by Panchiko, whom they toured with last […]
Completely at odds with most prevailing trends in the shoegaze/dreampop space, Los Angeles’ Bubble Tea & Cigarettes make songs so delicate they sound as though made of spun glass. I missed their set last month headlining Loveless Fest, but did catch them last year at The Drake Underground and while I was expecting something exceedingly […]
After following every pre-release milestone that deary set leading up to the release of their debut full-length album Birding back in April, I’ve not checked back in because following a Spring UK/Europe tour to promote the record, they’ve kept a relatively quiet Summer, prepping for another round of continental touring this Fall. But, in that […]
You may recall I said I was almost done with the Mojave 3 content, coinciding with the release of their reissues a couple weeks ago, and that’s because in the process of putting together my preceding posts, I found this set which I think warrants its own article. In my IG post from a few […]
