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English trio Pale Blue Eyes having been honing their balance post-punk asceticism, indie jangle, New Wave synthesis, krautrock propulsiveness, and dreampop lushness over three records, most lately on New Place, released back in March. It’s a recipe that’s immediately familiar to those of a certain age or streaming service algorithm, but nudges on each genre […]
If there’s a trend in Japanese shoegaze, it’s that the bands and records that are most hallowed are inevitably the ones that dropped one record a decade or more ago that everyone name-checks and adores, then disappeared off the face of the earth. Okay, this is probably quantifiably not true but is most definitely the […]
I’ve been meaning to represent Jay Som on these pages since I started up, but just hadn’t gotten around to it – kind of like how I like all of her records, but just haven’t gotten around to adding any of their physical copies to my collection because, well, I dunno. So with news that […]
Just in time for the solstice, London shoegazers Whitelands have welcomed the Summer with their first new music since last year’s Night-Bound Eyes Are Blind To The Sky, available to stream or as a limited edition flexi-disc. Musically, it’s a short, jaunty – almost buoyant – tune suited to the season, and the production is […]
When my listening habits first swung towards Japan, Plastic Girl In Closet from Iwate prefecture was in heavy rotation, in particular their 2014 album Eye Cue Rew See, though I favoured the 2022 remake of that record because… I don’t really know, actually. Advertised as “re-edited, re-recorded, and re-mixed”, presumably it’s better produced and better […]
It has been a long time since Fear Of Men’s last album – Fall Forever came out almost exactly nine years ago – though frontwoman Jessica Weiss hasn’t been idle; she completed a masters at Oxford last year and has an eye on a PhD, so crafting delicately dreamy and deliciously tense indie rock has […]
Barely a half year on from the release of her second album Soft Power, Amelia Murray – aka Fazerdaze – is already rolling out new music; quite a change from the years of silence following her first record, Morningside. The new song is “Motorway”, comes with a suitably vibey and grainy video, and she describes […]
Aside from a live track and a couple of remixes, London’s deary have been relatively quiet on the release front through 2025 so far. Sure, their second EP Aurelia only came out last November, but they were releasing preview tracks from it throughout the Summer starting in June… so I guess this means they’re actually […]
Pretty much no one described themselves as shoegaze in the early 2000s, so fans looking for their hazy, reverberated music fix had to look for more subtle hints as to like-minded souls… like including gorgeous Ride covers on your albums. That’s how I found California-then-Seattle’s Trespassers William, built around the duo of Anna-Lynne Williams and […]
Athenian shoegazers Sugar For The Pill will drop their second full-length Luv next Friday, and last week they offered up their third preview of the record with the soaring “Cherry Blossom” and corresponding, architecturally-inspired video. Said the band of the song and visuals: This song explores that tender instant when something ends, yet a new […]
