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South Korean shoegazers Swiimers haven’t had the most linear career – singer MQ Cho (조민경) fronted Ultra High-Frequency, who released a debut EP in 2012, before forming the new outfit with a similar sound and putting out a self-titled EP in 2016 (covered in previous posts) and a handful (well, three) singles over the next […]
This year’s Next Music From Tokyo kicks off tonight at The Horseshoe in Toronto, and repping the shoegazier end of the bill is Machida’s Carpenter’sBlue. They’ve been releasing a series of new singles throughout the Summer, presumably a runway to a second album at some point in the near future, but today I’m going way […]
It just now occurs to me that I could have posted some Maria Somerville when I was looking for some geo-topical content this Summer while I was in Dublin, but saving it for now – with her North American tour now underway – works, too. Somerville released her second album Luster back in April and […]
I honestly thought that the arrival today of kurayamisaka yori ai wo komete, the debut full-length from Tokyo’s Kurayamisaka, would have come with a little more fanfare, with their 2022 debut EP kimi wo omotte iru being immediately hailed as a classic of the J-gaze genre and starting the buzz that’s been steadily growing for […]
Japanese idol-gaze heroes RAY announced details of their fourth album yesterday, and after 2022’s Camellia, which took their album naming convention towards the floral, they’re back to colours – White will be out on October 1. They’ve expanded their influences since their 2020 debut Pink, which owed more than a debt to their former incarnation […]
The burning Marshall cabinet that opens the video for “Lose It Again” might imply that Australian dreampop queen Hatchie is entering her glam rock era, but it’s a feint as it abruptly cuts to Hariette Pilbeam riding in the back of a pick-up truck through the countryside, albeit with the pre-immolation 4×12″ in tow. After […]
Summer’s effectively over so let’s say goodbye with some early Swervedriver. “Rave Down” was the title track from the band’s second EP, coming in November 1990 almost a year before their debut full-length Raise, on which it would feature. The video kind of features a live performance but the visuals are all pretty obscured by […]
Not a lot of time at the moment so will just post up a track that’s been sitting in the queue for a while. Utero is the project of a Hokkaido native Rin Yumegiwa whose background, in addition to being a musician, includes work as “a nurse, idol, and IT engineer”. She was part of […]
It’s a shame that Gothenburg’s Douglas Heart are so little-known that their Apple Music bio offers the most comprehensive backgrounder on the early aughts dreampop outfit, but at the same time, hats off to K. Ross Hoffman for managing to compile as much information as he did. I’ll refrain from repeating the whole bio, but […]
Nagoya’s Blurred City Lights released their very good double-EP-slash-second album Utopia/Dystopia earlier this year but today I’m going back not just to last year’s debut 天使のいない街で , but to their second-ever single 「花束」 (aka “Flower”), which they dropped in December of 2022 accompanied by a simple animated video. Why that song, and now? Well this […]
