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The dearth of good quality live Cocteau Twins material – and I’m talking audio, never mind video which sadly just doesn’t exist – is a real shame, so when something like this complete soundboard recording from a Tokyo show circa Treasure surfaces, well, you share it. The recording comes courtesy of Moose bassist Lincoln Fong, […]
You might say that Minneapolis’ She’s Green are having a pretty good 2025. They just wrapped one North American tour supporting Glixen and will set out on another with Softcult next month, and are certainly making the most of their Canadian work visas. That’s a lot of road time for a band whose only release […]
It figures that a band that create as delicate, fragile, and internal-sounding dreampop as Detroit’s Clinic Stars don’t have a tremendous online presence – a Bandcamp, an Instagram, and a couple of shaky fan-shot live videos – but when they’ve already given us a record as beautiful as their 2024 full-length debut Only Hinting, asking […]
Their contributions to the first volume of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage back in February confirmed that contrary to expectations, fka Chromatics – Ruth Radelet, Adam Miller, and Nat Walker – were just as good without Johnny Jewel as they were with. Now, with the release of the second part of the game, denoted “Tape […]
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 […]
