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London shoegazers Whitelands released Night-Bound Eyes Are Blind To The Day last week and while expectations were high for their debut full-length, it’s fair to say that they fully delivered save for one complaint – at just eight tracks and 33 minutes, it’s far too short, and that six of the eight track were already […]
I’m not sure how big the demographic is, but Curve fans with money burning a hole in their pocket are certainly being catered to in the next few weeks. Firstly, archival label Music On Vinyl, who have been targeting analog completists by releasing all of the band’s singles and EPs on wax over the past […]
Besides the fact that they’re one of the more internationally beloved and missed Japanese indie rock bans of the last while, any discussion around Kinoko Teikoku inevitably centers around their shift from Japanese indie UK.Project/Daizawa to global major EMI with 2015’s 猫とアレルギー (Nekoto Allergie), and the inevitable softening/broadening of their sound from their original shoegazey […]
There’s anti-marketing, and then there’s what Seoul’s Della Zyr is doing. If you were to stumble across her YouTube channel, you’d find a handful of videos of a young woman playing shoegaze cover songs in her bedroom; excellently done, certainly, but not unusual in 2024. Her Instagram offers somewhat more; it’s only four posts deep, […]
Maybe this takes the prize for fastest turnaround of a complete live set. Slowdive are currently touring Europe in support of everything is alive, and here’s a recording of last week’s show in Paris at La Cigale. The recording by Unartig is an interesting balance of professional and amateur. There’s multiple cameras going on but […]
As I mentioned on my main Instagram, I’m ready to be part of the critical re-evaluation of Swervedriver’s 1998 one-time swan song 99th Dream, thanks to its new deluxe reissue which I happened to find at a very decent price and thought, “why not”. I bought the album on CD when it was first released […]
The deary model for shoegaze success worked pretty well last year – open the year with a great new song that ticks all the boxes, follow up with a full release that doesn’t disappoint courtesy of Sonic Cathedral, and open up for Slowdive – so why not try it again? London’s Whitelands aren’t following the […]
That Ride have been sitting on a finished new album for some time isn’t a secret; it’s been in the can since at least early Fall. But perhaps they wanted to wait until the attention around Slowdive’s new record had crested – at least initially – before raising their hand. In any case, they’re welcoming […]
While I’ve had some Pinkshinyultrablast in my library for a while, it hasn’t been in heavy enough rotation such that when I discovered and fell for fellow Saint Petersburg shoegazers Blankenberge, they stylistic parallels weren’t immediately obvious to me. But now that I hear it, I can’t really unhear it. And it figures – Pinkshinyultrablast […]
For whatever the accolade is worth, Parannoul has been the premiere Korean shoegaze artist for some time now, with his three albums garnering increasing praise, up to and including last year’s After The Magic, which was one of the few examples of the genre to crack year-end lists despite 2023 being the year “The Shoegaze […]
