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And following last night’s Hitsujibungaku show in Los Angeles, we’ve got more Asiangaze as a chaser with Hong Kongers Lucid Express at The Echo – practically the same venue as yesterday. This trip was nothing if not efficient. “Wellwave” was the debut single from their 2021 self-titled album, which they’re certainly due to follow up. […]
Almost a year ago I jetted across the ocean to Japan not just to see Hitsujibungaku live at Yokohama Arena, but that was certainly one of the highlights. This year, I’ve undertaken a similar trip – certainly not as far but possibly more perilous – to catch the Los Angeles date of their first-ever US […]
They may take their name from one of the more meditative singles in Slowdive’s oeuvre, but Athenian dreampoppers Sugar For The Pill occupy a different musical track, one more uptempo and sun-dappled than their namesakes, thanks in large part to Vana Rose’s soft yet strong vocals and their gift for crafting a strong hook. Some […]
When we last checked in with Venice, Italy’s Glazyhaze, they’d just announced details of their second full-length album SONIC and shared the second of three preview tracks from the album. Well the album arrived this past Friday and with it came another video for latest single “Slap”. Which, in the parlance of our time, this […]
I’ve mentioned before that my descent into the deep, bottomless rabbit hole of Japanese shoegaze began in early 2022 with For Tracy Hyde’s final record Hotel Insomnia, but navigating the scene over there – which goes back 15 to 30 years, depending on which thread you pull on – is no easy task, particularly when […]
Every once in a while I’ll wonder what The Radio Dept. are up to, and the answer is usually posting anti-fascism messages on their Instagram – their only active internet presence – and not crafting more beautifully melancholic lo-fi dreampop… and, honestly, it’s hard to fault them for that, all things considered. But that doesn’t […]
Like many, I suspect, I found my way to Tokyo’s AprilBlue via the fallout from the disbanding of For Tracy Hyde in early 2022. One of the main questions from distraught fans of the Japanese shoegaze heroes was “what can we listen to now?”, and the easy answer was the (many) other projects from chief […]
Russian shoegaze masters Blankenberge have been teasing their fourth album since last September, but while the samples of the new record have been expectedly euphoric, they’ve been very light on details about the new album itself. Last weekend, they released their third preview of the new record along with very subtle visualizer, but again resisted […]
Because it amuses me, here’s a song with the same name but otherwise completely unrelated the one posted Monday. “Evangeline” was the first non-4AD release by Cocteau Twins, coming out in September 1993 and previewing Four-Calendar Cafe, their first album for Fontana. It was also a notable record for being the first where Elizabeth Fraser’s […]
Once upon a time – like 10 years ago or so – if you needed a real atmospheric, synth-drenched ’80s-inspired soundtrack, you’d probably call on Chromatics as that vibe was their stock in trade. Of course, with the band no longer existing following the drawn-out drama of Dear Tommy’s non-release and the departure of 3/4 […]
