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American shoegazer OGs Alison’s Halo have been back in action since 2009, but have limited their activities to touring and meticulously mining their archives, though moving at a pace that would make Kevin Shields tap his toes impatiently. Consider their Kickstarter to remix, master, and enhance five Eyedazzler-era tracks for release – it was started […]
Thailand’s Slowwves released one of the year’s best shoegaze debuts in Perfect Evasion, which came out back in June. To coincide with the occasion (well, within a few weeks of, anyways), the band recorded a video session at CD Cosmos in their hometown of Bangkok. Over four songs from the album and astonishingly quiet between-song […]
So we’re having a bit of a moment of civic pride here in Toronto right now. Our Toronto Blue Jays are back in the World Series for the first time in 32 years – game one tonight! – and one of our most famous musical contributions, Rush, just announced their return after retiring a decade […]
I have pretty much zero regrets about leaving Spotify for Apple Music a few years ago, but will admit that one of the things Spotify did better was their radio playlist after my selected album finished. I could usually happily listen to their suggestions open-endedly, whereas Apple’s algorithm is far less creative, pretty much always […]
Nashville is not a city that comes to mind when you’re talking about shoegaze hotbeds, but that Total Wife resides in Music City is secondary to the fact that they’re also signed to Philadelphia Ameri-gaze powerhouse label Julia’s War. The prolific duo released their latest album Come Back Down last month, and like many of […]
Toronto’s own The Neverminds came onto my radar last Spring, not too long after releasing their second EP Nevermind, The Winter, and I was more than happy to share their first video as an introduction last June. That was technically their last bit of officially released media so from a certain perspective it might seem […]
When Kurayamisaka dropped their long-awaited full-length debut kurayamisaka yori ai wo komete last month, I commented that it was odd that for such a long-awaited record, the release rollout was surprisingly muted as far as new content goes (though one could argue that a new album is plenty of new content). As it turns out […]
Lots of on-topic new music in the last little while which we will largely get to in time, but for now let’s ring in October with news of Whitelands’ second album. The London shoegazers teased the follow-up to their 2024 debut Night-Bound Eyes Are Blind To The Day back in June with “Heat Of The […]
It was announced on Monday that Lush’s Gala – the 1990 compilation of the band’s early EPs which are generally regarded as their first album but really is not – would be getting a 35th anniversary reissue on November 7. Newly remastered, the triple vinyl edition will contain the three component EPs – Scar, Mad […]
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 […]
