expect delay
Cat-loving J-gaze godheads Tokyo Shoegazer have just released their fourth album Remains, and obviously believing that their name tells you everything you need to know, did not release a single video or preview of any kind. And since the whole thing is out now, you can just go and listen on the platform of your […]
Venetian shoegazers Glazyhaze have returned with their first new song of the year, described as “a rock song with a pop heart, suspended between the warmth of the night and the quiet intimacy of early morning light”. The song arrived last week mostly without comment, so it’s not clear if it’s a one-off or the […]
Because I am who I am, I had a bunch of topical posts done and lined up before we even left for our trip to Hong Kong and Japan last month. And of course life being what it is, I forgot about them. Or some of them. Well, one of them. This one was meant […]
I made my first visit to Nagoya, Japan a few weeks ago, but only saw their Shinkanesen station and Legoland Japan, situated on the city’s port lands. There’s no point to this besides to say “hey go look at my holiday pics” but also that if local shoegaze ambassadors Blurred City Lights had released their […]
I appreciate that it seems like new singles from some bands seem like automatic posts – because they basically are – but I’d like to point out that it’s a really exciting time in the genre because there are these new acts who are putting out really great music and taking the sound forward, and […]
Hello – here with a quick check-in as I recover from vacation and try to get re-acclimated to life at home. As a band, Ride are pretty online with a regular presence on all your usual platforms and channels, but did you know they had a Bandcamp? No, not the rideox4.bandcamp.com site that offers all […]
Being one of the OG Japanese shoegaze bands AND hailing from Osaka, I was obviously keen to post some Honeydip but what do you know – I already shared their one and only video last year to celebrate their return to active duty and the remaster and reissue of their last two albums (although apparently […]
Here’s one to file under near misses. I’ve been a Yuragi fan since well before my J-gaze/rock/pop obsession began a few years ago, but naturally have never gotten to see them perform as they’ve yet to leave Asia for any live performances. But now, as I roll into their hometown of Osaka, I have just […]
It’s a little ridiculous that I’m posting about a Hong Kong band from Hong Kong while said band is tooling around North America and will be in my town in a week and a half or so, but here we are. I’m talking, of course, about Lucid Express who released their second album Instant Comfort […]
When it rains, it pours, and the deluge of new singles in the last little while made it so that even an epic new track from deary didn’t even get a listen until this morning as I write this, fully five days after it was released. A tribute to guitarist Ben Easton’s dog – presumably […]
