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Nagoya dreampop duo Blurred City Lights came just about out of nowhere last year – okay, out of their bedroom studios – with their full-length debut 天使のいない街で that ended up with a highly-coveted position on my 2024 year-end list. It did this on the strength of its vision, songwriting, and managing the impressive task of […]
As recently as last November, when She’s Green came onto my radar, the Minneapolis five-piece looked to be another regional genre favourite, known to locals and a handful of subreddits. Now it looks like the word might be just a little more out, with their being attached to an international (well, two countries) tour with […]
The inevitable yet still wholly welcome OG lineup The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart reunion started out at a snail’s pace – announced in August of last year with an extensive Spanish tour starting this month. They’ve since added a couple of Italian dates for May and a UK run in November, but North […]
Osaka’s Yuragi nearly perfected the Japanese dreampop/shoegaze aesthetic of mating cacaphonous noise with sugar-sweet melody with their first releases – 2016’s Nightlife EP and 2018’s Still Dreaming, Still Deafening – so it’s not entirely surprising that their subsequent releases didn’t bother retreading the same ground. Both 2021’s For You, Adroit It But Soft and 2023’s […]
Slowdive kicked off the latest/last leg of their North American touring behind Everything Is Alive this past Saturday night here in Toronto, and I think that of the seven (!) times I’ve seen them since they reunited in 2014, it may have been the best overall performance yet. The sound was fantastic, as per usual […]
Tokyo newcomers Cephalo had already won their way onto my 2024 year-end list on the strength of their debut EP Wind Surfing School, so when they closed out the year with their first full-length Fluorite Code – just a little longer than the EP and almost as good – they basically won the year… overstatement, […]
Italy isn’t a country that comes to mind as a hotbed of shoegazing, but Venice’s Glazyhaze are looking to change that – or at least be the exception. Sure, everything from their band name through their song titles is pretty on-the-nose-millennial-shoegaze-fan, but that’s not a deal-breaker around here when it’s done well, and their 2023 […]
After a week of new music from the old guard of shoegaze, let’s turn our eyes forward – if still gazing downwards – and see what the kids are up to, starting close to home. Toronto newcomers Otsyuda released their first single “Drift” back in May of last year and immediately made an impression with […]
Wrapping up the week’s theme of shoegaze veterans still doing something new, we have Miki Berenyi, former frontwoman of Lush, announcing her first album with Miki Berenyi Trio – Tripla will be out April 4. MB3 evolved out her previous post-Lush band Piroshka due to as touring demands and lineup changes, and now comprises herself, […]
2025 is barely two weeks into the new year and it’s already been a banner year for new music from shoegaze OGs, so that’ll be the running theme of the week. Swervedriver have stayed in the public eye what with the 99th Dream reissue and companion Doremi Faso Latido rarities comp coming out last year […]
