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I don’t, by any means, yearn for the days when a new act could release a single song and set the blogosphere – such as it was called way back when – alight with rapturous praise. But it is nice, every now and again, to see something wholly unknown namecheck all the right influences and […]
New York shoegazers DIIV are a few years on from their last studio record, 2019’s Deceiver, but have had a very busy 2022 with a months-long European tour this Summer following on from a handful of North American festivals in the Spring. But for those of us who weren’t anywhere near those shows, they’ve got […]
Yesterday brought the first appreciable snowfall of the season here in Toronto, and while it’s actually rolling over into Summer down in New Zealand, Fazerdaze’s Amelia Murray must have known. Why else would she choose the day to release the new video for “Winter”, taken from last month’s comeback EP Break!? Or maybe she knew […]
Tragically, there is a dearth of live Cocteau Twins footage only – certainly no complete shows from Rockpalast or the BBC archives – so while it’s grainy and the audio is not fantastic, this 20-minute clip taken from a Swedish television broadcast of a mini-gig at a small tavern called Lord Nelson in Örebro, Sweden […]
There’s some irony that the second single from The Sundays’ debut album Reading, Writing and Arithmetic is often held as a prototype for dream pop, but actually doesn’t have many of the traits that would become the genre’s calling card. Chorused guitars? Only what you naturally get from David Gavurin’s 12-string acoustic (okay, maybe a […]
So about a decade ago there was a big sort of shoegaze/dreampop renaissance and a bunch of new bands showed up with Fender offset guitars and loads of chorus and delay pedals on hand and, for the most part, because I’m a contrary bastard, I had no time for any of it even though – […]
I got it in my head to go looking for a Beach House video to post, and besides the fact that they don’t have a lot of conventional, official videos, it took some digging and lo and behold I came across this clip from 2012’s Bloom that I had no idea existed, though apparently it […]
For the endless wealth of musical options at our fingertips, one song I always return to as a bit of cozy aural comfort food is The Radio Dept.’s cover of The Go-Betweens single “Bachelor Kisses”, originally taken from their 1984 album Spring Hill Fair. Instrumentally, it’s Radio Dept by the numbers – warm synth pads, […]
It wasn’t a single. It was never played live. It didn’t even sound like anything the band had ever done. And yet by virtue of its stark, dark, beauty acting as a coda for the cosmic grandeur of Souvlaki, “Dagger” became one of Slowdive’s signature songs. A scan of the lyrics invite speculation that it’s […]
When Amelia Murray, aka Fazerdaze, returned from the wilderness last month, it came without much explanation of where she’d been from the last four years nor what was going to come next. And fans might have had those questions, but didn’t ask – they were just happy to have her back. But in anticipation and […]
