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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 […]
2016’s Lush reunion certainly started out with the best of intentions. Whereas most of their reunited peers were content to exult in the adoration (and dollars) of touring old material, Miki Berenyi, Emma Anderson, and Phil King hit the studio first and were ready with the Blind Spot EP – four new tracks and a […]
I have no idea what WordPress or various socials will do with the title of this post. I’m curious. Kinoko Teikoku is one of the acts that is revered in the world of Japanese shoegaze, though that’s usually qualified by the fact that while they started out in that genre in their early releases, they […]
Slowdive’s latest everything is alive has only been out a week and a bit, but there’s already been plenty of press attention around it, most of which I’ve tried to share in real time at my main Twitter but which I’ll also round up below; there’ll probably be more which I’ll add to as they […]
I get the 30th anniversary re-release of Pale Saints‘ 1990 debut The Comforts Of Madness in 2020 because it was the band’s most celebrated work – of three albums total, sure – but that the follow-up, In Ribbons, would get the same treatment is a pleasant surprise. Well technically it’s a 31st anniversary release – […]
