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A large part of Cephalo’s ascent in the ranks of Japanese shoegaze was the rate at which they released material, starting with their debut EP Wind Surfing School in mid-2024 and the full-length Fluorite Code at the end of that year. They followed it up with the Gloaming Point EP last November accompanied by a […]
The album cycle for DIIV’s fourth album, 2024’s Frog In Boiling Water, kicked off with the viral soul-net.co infinite website/single in Fall 2023, while they were touring with Depeche Mode and carried on through 2025 before wrapping with the release of a live document of the album – Boiled Alive – which came out in […]
I’ve been a fan of Trespassers William for almost 25 years now, going back to their 2002 second album Different Stars, a monumental document of country-space-gaze-core. You might think that wouldn’t require much effort considering their last album came out 20 years ago and they’ve been officially disbanded since 2012, but they’ve still sneakily been […]
Ahead of their final show next month, Tokyo dreampoppers AprilBlue have released their final single, 『ヴァージンノイズ』, which translates to “Virgin Noise” and in the words of singer Haruki Funasoko: “These are the lyrics I wrote while questioning the meaning of standing on stage with this band. I’m glad I was able to leave them behind. […]
Toronto’s own shoegaze festival Loveless Fest dials up this weekend and while the lineup impresses with a balance of higher profile international (read: American) acts to spice up the locals from the GTA and southern Ontario, there’s some domestic acts from a little further afield who bring an extra element of discovery to the schedule. […]
It’s not intentional that this site is becoming something of a She’s Green fansite, but the pace at which they’re creating and releasing great material is just impossible to ignore, and while I like to think I’m being pretty curatorial in what I post… the machine needs to be fed. But still, even with their […]
Tokyo’s musbime are relative newcomers, having been active only since 2024, but have already made an impression with their debut EP 煌めきを凌いで (Brave The Blinding), which came out in late April. Like most of their peers, shoegaze is only one of the genres they’ve absorbed into their sound – there’s math in the guitar lines, […]
As much as it delights me to live in a world where Slowdive are a constantly touring entity, I won’t pretend I’m not waiting for them to get off the road and back into the studio because, well, I live in a festival-less market so it’s highly unlikely they’ll be stamping their passports in Canada […]
Non-Japanese shoegaze bands filming videos in Japan is now officially a thing, I guess. On Wednesday I shared one such clip from Toronto’s Neverminds, and today we’ve got one from Attic Ocean, who hail from Düsseldorf, Germany. It’s for the third taste of their forthcoming third EP I Promise I’ll Try Every Day, out next […]
Those who pay attention may note that I technically shared this song last Fall on its release, along with its companion B-side “Glow”, but that was a month before the official video for the song was released and considering how little quality video content there is from The Neverminds – I’ve been talking up the […]
