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Somehow lost in the rollout of Hatchie’s third album Liquorice last month was that, following what had been a pretty conventional rollout of singles/videos leading up the record’s street date – “Lose It Again” in September, “Only One Laughing” in October – there was a big ol’ video dump on release day, consisting of an […]
There’s been no shortage of Kurayamisaka love hereabouts – so much so that I’m just about out of fresh content to post about them – but considering that NME has made good on their hyping of the band early on in the year with a feature English-language interview, I’d dig up a little bit more […]
The only reason that New York’s Miss Grit – aka Margaret Sohn – hasn’t appeared in these pages yet despite listening to her for a few years now is that I wasn’t sure if what she was doing fit within the vaguely specific remit of this blog. It’s got thumping drum beats, squelching synths, fuzzed-out […]
We’ve got us another teaser of Whitelands‘ second album Sunlight Echoes ahead of its official release on January 30 of the new year. That makes this the third preview song, if we’re keeping track. Of the soaring, string-laden “Songbird (Forever)”, singer Etienne Quartey-Papafio says: It’s about my friends, the important people in my life, and […]
When Tokyo neo-gazers (their term, which I actually quite like) The Floatings pushed back the release of their debut album Flowering from late May citing “production circumstances”, I didn’t think too much of it. At the time, they were one of a number of new-ish J-gaze bands who had a few interesting or enjoyable singles […]
Yesterday’s Radio Dept instagram post sent me down a little rabbit hole – never an unpleasant place to be – but one of the things I discovered was their official website, which I never knew about. To be fair, they’ve had and abandoned a few web presences over the years, and their recent inactivity didn’t […]
San Franciscans LSD and The Search For God (and with their name and trippy psych-gaze, of course they’re from San Francisco) are one of the more beloved contemporary American shoegaze bands, and to my somewhat surprise they’re still very much an active concern. I first heard of them by way of their 2007 self-titled debut […]
Tokyo’s Cephalo are still relative newcomers, but they’ve been very fast with making a name for themselves. Their debut EP Wind Surfing School made waves in the Japanese shoegaze pond on its release last May, and their debut full-length Fluorite Code affirmed their excellence when it followed in December. And in 2025, they’ve somehow managed […]
Venice’s Glazyhaze have had themselves a pretty great year. After rolling out a string of great singles that led into the release of their also great second album SONIC in May, they’ve spent the Fall touring it around Europe. What do you do for an encore? Well, you drop one more song from the SONIC […]
A lot of current Japanese shoegaze exists within its own distinct realm of domestic influences, incorporating enough J-pop, City Pop, emo, etc into its DNA that if someone were to enter the scene with only first-generation western artists as a reference point, they might reasonably not understand why it’s in the same conversation. For those […]
