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Montreal’s Bodywash are another in the seemingly bottomless reservoir of worthy dreampop bands coming out the city. The duo of Chris Steward and Rosie Long Decter offer up lovely, laid back dreampop that blends balearic beats with Loveless-friendly six string textures. Is chillgaze a thing? Their debut Comforter came out in 2019, with “With Heat” and […]
I spent Saturday night at a local club well past midnight catching a show – something I hadn’t done in many many years, and which my body is reminding me of why – but I didn’t want to miss the chance to catch local dreampop ascendants Tallies again. I had planned to see them way […]
I’ve yet to go fully down the rabbit hole of Japanese shoegaze and dreampop as it is both vast and deep, but if and when I do, it will probably be Toyko quartet yuragi that leads me there. They won me over with their initial short-players – 2016’s Nightlife EP and 2018’s epic mini-album Still […]
Last week’s ‘gaze-centric listicle Bandcamp’s Rare Shoegaze Gems From All Eras Unearthed seemed to go over quite well, so here’s another along the same lines though to be fair, Eli Enis’ New Wave of American Shoegaze piece is far more than a laundry list of things to listen to. It’s a very thorough and exhaustive […]
Listicles are dodgy propositions, most of them being clickbait done with minimal effort. Hell, most these days probably aren’t even done by wage slave interns like the good old days – they’re almost certainly all AI now. So it’s very refreshing to find ones like this treat from Bandcamp last week that seeks to introduce […]
Without question, studio production is a big part of the dream-pop aesthetic – all those reverbs and delays need to be managed with a deft hand – but as Mexican duo Mint Field demonstrate, sometimes stripping things down and playing in a giant outdoor ceremonial square can also yield amazing results. They released their second […]
Former Lush frontwoman (and current Piroshka frontwoman) Miki Berenyi has been in the news the last little while not for anything she’s done musically – the last Piroshka record Love Drips and Gathers came out in Summer of 2021 – but for her written recollections of what she’s done musically. Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved […]
I’m certain I’ve read more than one features where various members of Ride have offered their thoughts on various entries of their back catalog, but this one by Bandcamp is notable because it’s new, having been published just a couple weeks ago, and features commentary from all four band members. And as a bonus, it […]
New York shoegazers DIIV are a few years on from their last studio record, 2019’s Deceiver, but have had a very busy 2022 with a months-long European tour this Summer following on from a handful of North American festivals in the Spring. But for those of us who weren’t anywhere near those shows, they’ve got […]
Tragically, there is a dearth of live Cocteau Twins footage only – certainly no complete shows from Rockpalast or the BBC archives – so while it’s grainy and the audio is not fantastic, this 20-minute clip taken from a Swedish television broadcast of a mini-gig at a small tavern called Lord Nelson in Örebro, Sweden […]
