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As Michelle Zauner returns with news of her first new record in four years and her first promotional cycle as a bona fide star rather than up-and-comer – details on that available at literally every music news outlet – I’m going to go back – way back – to her early days. I thought I […]
We’ll end the year with a callback to one of my highlights of the year, seeing Japanese trio Hitsujibungaku play a triumphant show in Yokohama back in April. The show was originally supposed to be released on vinyl in addition to blu-ray, but at some point the audio edition was scrapped and so the live […]
Arizona’s Alison’s Halo are one of the OG American shoegazers, having formed way back in 1992 and despite going to ground before the turn of the century, remained one of the first names you’d think of when talking about the first wave of the genre from the Americas. They reformed in 2009 for sporadic shows […]
It remains a tragedy that the Lush reunion ended the way it did, when it started out so promisingly. Unlike their peers, they started out in the studio rather than the stage and had a new EP in Blind Spot ready to go, coming out just days after their first reunion gig in April 2016. […]
When I wrote up South Korean dreampop trio Swiimers back in January, they’d been radio silent for over a year since their last singles “Knight Verse” and “Winter Resolution” dropped at the end of 2022, and I assumed they – like many indie bands from Asia – had simply quietly ceased operations to move on […]
Los Angeles dreampop trio Soft Blue Shimmer will return with their third album They Will Leave Us With Nothing next year on February 28. The band haven’t offered much about the new record yet, but the album announcement came with the brief comment: In a year of grief, struggling, and often sudden & uncomfortable change, […]
Robin Guthrie has had a pretty busy year by his standards, with the Cocteau Twins’ The Moon & The Melodies reissue in the Summer and his own Astoria and Atlas EPs of new music and a smattering of standalone archival tracks released on his Bandcamp. Additionally, today he has re-released on CD a couple of […]
I’m sure that the name of She’s Green is meant to elicit questions – who’s green? Okay, maybe just that one question. But another might be, why does everyone talk about Philadelphia and Austin as being the hotbeds of current American shoegaze when this five-piece is from Minneapolis? On their debut EP Wisteria, released last […]
Amelia Murray’s return as Fazerdaze is complete today with the release of her second album Soft Power, and she celebrated in advance by not only streaming the whole album a day early on YouTube – academic, since it’s available to stream everywhere now unless you don’t subscribe to any streaming services in which case have […]
Returning to my intermittent series on quality dreampop from around the corner from me (I almost wrote “from the Six” but nope, can’t do it), we’ve got Toronto trio Swiims, who celebrated the one-year anniversary of their debut album Into The Blue Night yesterday. It’s an assured debut that doesn’t lag or get too samey […]
