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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 […]
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 […]
