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It has not gone unnoticed that despite being one of my all-time bands and certainly fitting within in the genre mandates of this site, Luna have not featured in these pages very much. Partly because while they are again an ongoing concern since reuniting in 2014, they’re mostly a touring act with their only new […]
Today, The American Analog Set are putting out For Forever, their first album since 2005’s Set Free. The band essentially ended at the end of that year, after touring obligations were done, but they did reconvene a few times after that for one-off performances. The second-last of those was back in March 2009 in Austin, […]
Of all the new musical discoveries I’ve made this year, one that has remained in heavy rotation is St. Petersburg’s Blankenberge, whom I tried to properly celebrate back in June. They actually weren’t entirely new to me as their 2017 debut Radiogaze was brought to my attention by some genre year-end lists. As I recall, […]
Five or six years ago, my overarching mission in life was to acquire copies of Cocteau Twins’ final two albums – 1993’s Four-Calendar Cafe and 1995’s Milk & Kisses – on vinyl. I always like having some sort of record grail search on the go, even if the days of actually being able to spend […]
That I’m posting American Analog Set content in 2023 isn’t entirely bewildering – that Numero Group was turning their reissue sights on the Austin dreampop band’s catalog was well known with a box set set for 2024, and a couple of rarities had already quietly surfaced on streaming services in the last few months. But […]
Up and coming London dreampop duo Deary started the year out right, introducing themselves with a lovely Cocteaus-esque single in “Fairground” and they’re looking to close out 2023 on an equally high note, opening up for one of Slowdive’s London shows and scheduling the release of their debut self-titled EP for November 17. Accompanying the […]
I always love it when Song Exploder turns its lens onto artists or songs that I love, so to have local heroes Alvvays featured on the podcast is a real treat. In this episode, Molly Rankin and Alec O’Hanley go way way back to the band’s origins and how they wrote one of their first […]
The return of Slowdive is exciting for many, many reasons, but for guitar nerds like me, one of them is a chance to get a look at what wonderful noisemaking toys the band are using now. History has shown, however, that they’re not necessarily the gear hounds that their fans might think. Comparing their setups […]
Posting about San Jose’s ’90s dreampop blip Ozean back in July wasn’t meant to be anything than a “this existed forever ago and is worth a listen”, but it’s turned out to be just a little bit prescient. Archival label Numero Group, who’ve done a terrific job of unearthing and rereleasing everyone’s favourite out-of-print college […]
Slowdive’s everything is alive tour starts tomorrow night right here in Toronto, marking the first time most of the new songs will be translated on stage (“kisses” has been a fixture of their set lists all Summer). This, of course, means that some of the old favourites will be cycled out of rotation, so let’s […]
