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Started the day with some new Swervedriver news, which is always good news, though not quite the kind of good news that fans were probably hoping for, but let’s focus on the good, shall we? They’ll be putting out a new-ish release on August 30 entitled Doremi Faso Latido. What it is is the third […]
Japanese-American shoegazers Asobi Seksu‘s final full-length album was 2011’s Fluorescence, but their final release of new music came in November of 2012, with a Record Store Day release. It was a 7″ split single with Japanese noise-rock gods Boris wherein each covered one of the other’s songs. Appropriately, Asobi Seksu took “Farewell” from Boris’ 2005 […]
Another act spoken of in hushed tones when speaking of Japanese shoegaze is Shojoskip, though until recently following up on their praise has been a bit tough. The co-ed outfit formed in 2007 and while streaming services have long had their two 2008 releases – Sweet Days and Her Last Kiss, their split album with […]
There was a flurry of new from Cocteau Twins this week, with the announcement that their collaborative album with the late ambient composer Harold Budd – The Moon and The Melodies – was getting a vinyl reissue for the first time since its initial release in 1986 on August 23, featuring a new remaster by […]
Whitelands opened up the year with the best shoegaze debuts of the year in Night-Bound Eyes Are Blind To The Day, and clearly cognizant of the fact that time moves fast and memories are short, they’ve just released a new non-album single to remind you that their lush dreampop is some kind of delicious. Regarding […]
Tokyo trio Hitsujibungaku had their breakthrough – if you define breakthrough as coming onto my personal musical radar – with their 2023 single “More Than Words”, which aside from being an absolute earworm, was used to soundtrack the season-closing scene of immensely popular anime series Jujutsu Kaisen. It wasn’t the band’s first swing at soundtracking […]
One of the more exciting/interesting new acts out of Japan to my ears is Tokyo’s Beachside talks. They made their debut last Winter with the Marble Town EP, which showcased their sweet, Sundays-esque jangly dreampop and if that was their whole vibe, that’d be more than enough. But the two new singles they’ve rolled out […]
I’ve been around long enough to accept that sometimes acts just disappear quietly, without an announcement or farewell release or tour. That’s probably more the norm than the exception. That said, I hold out hope that the radio silence from Maria Lindén of I Break Horses is just part of her pattern of going incommunicado […]
Having had a brilliant 2023, London dreampoppers deary have thus far devoted this year to touring their debut EP and releases have been limited to some remixes and live tracks. But they’ve finally returned with some new material in the form of “The Moth”, a new single that continues the campaign of resurrecting the ’90s […]
Speaking of acts who kept the torch of shoegaze alive in those years where things were darkest, let’s talk about Rhode Island’s The Brother Kite. Which, as those who’ve followed me over here from past endeavours, know that I have. Their 2006 record Waiting For The Time To Be Right was, for a long time, […]
