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Just as Kinoko Teikoku spawned a generation of Japanese emo-shoegaze bands, I think we’re starting to see the legacy of For Tracy Hyde and their hyper-melodic, nostalgia-soaked ethos, manifest itself in a new wave of J-gaze bands. One of them is Tokyo’s KILDREN, whose debut single last year is a six-minute sugarblast of noise and […]
Guy Chadwick went to ground for a few years after The House Of Love’s initial dissolution in 1994, eventually resurfacing in 1997 as a solo artist and with the assistance of Cocteau Twins’ Robin Guthrie, released a solo record in Lazy, Soft & Slow in 1998. It’s a pretty low-key affair of originals and one […]
I’ve been filling a few longstanding holes in my Cocteau Twins collection, most recently getting the Lullabies To Violaine, Vol. 1 compilation of all their 4AD-era EPs – easy enough, as it’s still in print in CD – but the second volume, which covers their Fontana years but was also released by 4AD, is somewhat […]
Though newcomers to the scene – that’s the Thai shoegaze scene, but music in general – with a discography just four songs deep, Bangkok’s Slowwves have already shown themselves to be a name to watch. The bio from their Bandcamp (which has only one track to stream) details their origins as: Peem (guitar) got to know Jill […]
A lot has happened since Saint Petersburg’s Blankenberge released their 2021 album Everything – Russia invaded Ukraine, the band relocated to somewhere/anywhere else (their last publicly announced whereabouts was Serbia), and I fell in love with their music. Not necessarily in that order. But given the extenuating circumstances, it’s understandable that it took the band […]
Tokyo’s Beachside Talks raised their game with their last few singles – I raved about “Cassis” back in June – and now they’ve collected it and follow-up track “Big Sky” on a CD single with a third track that’s yet to make it onto any streaming services. I actually like “Big Sky” more than its […]
It probably seems like deary get an automatic bye when it comes to making it onto my posting schedule, but it’s not like it’s not earned – the London duo have been on a winning streak since coming onto the scene at the start of last year, through last year’s delightful debut EP, and they’re […]
It feels like Men I Trust have been touring Untourable Album non-stop since it came out over three years ago – and why not? The stages they’re offered just keep getting bigger and though I saw them last at the very start of that run, there’s no reason to think they haven’t just gotten better […]
Fazerdaze’s return to active duty appears to be complete; following a post-Morningside retreat she took tentative steps back to music in 2022 with the Break! EP and a return to touring at home and abroad in 2023. This year, she committed to opening up the entirety of Pond’s North American tour this November, implying that […]
Sad news from The House Of Love camp; Guy Chadwick took to Facebook last week to announce the passing of guitarist/vocalist Andrea Heukamp. We only just heard the sad news of the passing of Andrea Heukamp who died in 2022. Andrea was in the band at the start until she left to go home to […]
