expect delay
Los Angeles’ Soft Blue Shimmer started their North American tour for third album They Will Leave Us With Nothing last week and will be rolling into Toronto tomorrow night for a show at The Baby G. They were here a couple years ago for a gig at The Monarch, which I missed because I was […]
Long out of print, The Clientele’s 2003 album The Violet Hour will finally be getting a reissue courtesy of their current home at Merge Records on November 7. It will be the first time the album has been available on vinyl in North America, which is good news for anyone who’s ever checked how much […]
It was announced on Monday that Lush’s Gala – the 1990 compilation of the band’s early EPs which are generally regarded as their first album but really is not – would be getting a 35th anniversary reissue on November 7. Newly remastered, the triple vinyl edition will contain the three component EPs – Scar, Mad […]
South Korean shoegazers Swiimers haven’t had the most linear career – singer MQ Cho (조민경) fronted Ultra High-Frequency, who released a debut EP in 2012, before forming the new outfit with a similar sound and putting out a self-titled EP in 2016 (covered in previous posts) and a handful (well, three) singles over the next […]
It just now occurs to me that I could have posted some Maria Somerville when I was looking for some geo-topical content this Summer while I was in Dublin, but saving it for now – with her North American tour now underway – works, too. Somerville released her second album Luster back in April and […]
If you’ve been keeping up with Robin Guthrie’s via usual streaming services, you might think 2024’s Astoria EP was his last release and as far as “new” music goes, you’d be right, but swing by his Bandcamp and you’ll find he’s been going through his archives and releasing one-off “orphans” that might otherwise never have […]
Melody Prochet has been relatively quiet since the flurry of Melody’s Echo Chamber activity in 2022-23 that brought us an album of new material and an album of old, an international tour, capped off by a one-off collaboration single with American psych outfit Crumb. This week, she returned with another one-off collab from across the […]
The burning Marshall cabinet that opens the video for “Lose It Again” might imply that Australian dreampop queen Hatchie is entering her glam rock era, but it’s a feint as it abruptly cuts to Hariette Pilbeam riding in the back of a pick-up truck through the countryside, albeit with the pre-immolation 4×12″ in tow. After […]
It’s a shame that Gothenburg’s Douglas Heart are so little-known that their Apple Music bio offers the most comprehensive backgrounder on the early aughts dreampop outfit, but at the same time, hats off to K. Ross Hoffman for managing to compile as much information as he did. I’ll refrain from repeating the whole bio, but […]
Nagoya’s Blurred City Lights released their very good double-EP-slash-second album Utopia/Dystopia earlier this year but today I’m going back not just to last year’s debut 天使のいない街で , but to their second-ever single 「花束」 (aka “Flower”), which they dropped in December of 2022 accompanied by a simple animated video. Why that song, and now? Well this […]
