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Amongst the bands that make up the first wave of American shoegaze in the ’90s, Boston’s Drop Nineteens are amongst the most hallowed. Partly because their 1992 debut Delaware contains some bona fide classics of the genre – “Winona” and “Kick The Tragedy” are fixtures of “intro to shoegazing” playlists – but also because the […]
Jo’s Moving Day aren’t quite as shadowy as the last instalment of my “mysterious Chinese shoegaze” series – they have an Instagram! – but finding out much about the fresh-faced Guangzhou quintet isn’t easy if you don’t read Chinese (which I do not). But at least their 2021 debut Itinerary is widely available via streaming […]
My question last year of whether Ride would continue their back catalog remaster and reissue series to include the much-less beloved Carnival Of Light and Tarantula have been answered with a solid “yes” – new editions of the records will be out on August 4. There’s much less fanfare to be sure – an Instagram […]
Inadvertent Lush season continues hereabouts with some exciting news – the first solo record from Emma Anderson. After Lush split in 1996, it was Anderson who got back into things first, forming Sing-Sing with Lisa O’Neill in 1997 and carrying on for a decade, releasing a couple full-lengths and a variety of extended plays. After disbanding, […]
The second sample of Slowdive’s forthcoming everything is alive doesn’t come with the cinematic, WKW-inspired video that “Kisses” did last month – just a “visualizer” riffing on the album artwork – but that’s a far less important a point than the fact that this is the second new Slowdive song we’ve been gifted in less […]
Tokyo’s For Tracy Hyde may be gone, but they leave behind a decent enough trove of archival material for me to wade through beyond their final record Hotel Insomnia and it’s final wake. I’ll start with this five-song live set they recorded in April 2020 for DKFM Radio’s (DecayFM) DreamGaze Worldwide, which I guess was […]
I’ve been on a bit of a Lush kick lately for no reason that I can think of, but it turns out I was just being prescient. 4AD announced yesterday that the Lush studio album back catalog – 1991’s Spooky, 1994’s Split, and 1996’s Lovelife – were being remastered from the original 1/2″ tapes and […]
Another one from the depths of obscurity, but this one doesn’t have the same backstory of discovery that Ozean did… in fact there’s no backstory at all, which makes it more compelling/frustrating. About all that’s known about Baby Formula is on their Bandcamp page, and that they’re from Beijing, China and released their debut self-titled […]
If you’re the sort to have gone on expeditions for new music of the shoegaze/dreampop variety beyond the usual suspects over the past, oh, quarter century or so, you’ve probably heard the name Ozean, probably spoken of in hushed tones (or whatever the equivalent of hushed tones on Usenet boards was). An outfit from the […]
The Marvel Team-Up I didn’t know I needed… in the Spring of 1996, Lush toured the US with Mojave 3 on what they called the Sharing The Pavement tour in Spring of 1996. The pairing made sense from the perspective of them being 4AD labelmates as well as leading lights of shoegaze in past lives, […]
