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As someone who has seen and photographed Beach House live a number of times, I find it somewhat comforting that even an outlet with the clout and resources of Pitchfork can’t get more than shadowy blurs for a lot of their footage. They recorded the entirety of the band’s show in Brooklyn on August 23, […]
Toronto’s Mother Tongues were an early discovery of this blog and the first concert I went to in over two years, in Fall 2021 during a small break in pandemic closures. They made their recorded debut in Summer of 2020 with the trippy psychedelic multi-hyphenate pop of the Everything You Wanted EP, and now return […]
Here’s another instalment in the series I’ll call “Cocteau for Cocteau’s sake”, where I’ll just throw some Cocteau Twins material out there because doing so makes the world a marginally better place. Wikipedia says that the band had two videos before this one, taken from 1984’s The Spangle Maker EP, but I can’t find it […]
So I’ve just returned from my first trip to New York in over four years, the longest absence in almost 20 years. And with a three-year old at home, you know it’d have to be a pretty good reason to get away, even if just for a weekend, and it was – Melody’s Echo Chamber […]
It may or may not be clear to readers that I’ve descended down a vast and deep rabbit hole of Japanese shoegaze and dreampop which will almost certainly inform content hereabouts for a long time to come. And the white rabbit that led me here is For Tracy Hyde, whose fifth album Hotel Insomnia was […]
Sometimes simply Googling the name of an artist and “complete show” can be surprisingly fruitful. There’s not a ton of high quality live I Break Horses footage out there, since Maria Lindén and company aren’t exactly road warriors, but this recording of their performance at the Refinery Gallery in Bratisalva, Slovakia in April 2014 as […]
It’s been four years since Amber Bain – aka The Japanese House – released her sumptuous debut Good At Falling, and she’s been pretty much radio silent since her Chewing Cotton Wool EP came out in late 2020. Official word on the follow-up is still forthcoming, but she’s finally returned with new music in the […]
New York’s Asobi Seksu certainly had their unique angle in the mid-aughts shoegaze revival with their blend of dreampop and J-pop, complete with bilingual vocals from frontwoman Yuki Chikudate, but as the decade rolled over, their attempts to move away from the elevator pitch that made their early work so appealing yielded diminishing returns and […]
Fazerdaze technically returned from the wild last Summer, with a handful of singles leading to the digital release of her Break! EP last October. But those who got their hands on the physical 12″ – released last Fall in Australia and the rest of the world just last week – found a little surprise in […]
It was a truly perverse bit of timing that almost the same moment that Tokyo shoegaze/dreampop veterans For Tracy Hyde got a glowing review in Pitchfork for Hotel Insomnia, their fifth album in ten years, they announced they were splitting up, declaring: Since the turn of last year, we had been thoroughly discussing about our […]
