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Catherine Wheel continue to not give the people what they want, but at least they’re giving the people something. The band’s first three albums -1992’s Ferment, 1993’s Chrome, and 1995’s Happy Days – were all reissued on heavyweight vinyl last week by Proper Records. Sure, they’d all been been given Music On Vinyl pressings in […]
A fixture of current shoegaze/dreampop recommendations, it took me a little while to come around to Melbourne’s Flyying Colours – not because they’re difficult, but because they’re most decidedly not. Their take on the genre is groovy and easy – major key melodies, suitably fuzzy guitar riffs, and Brodie J Brümmer’s and Gemma O’Connor’s chill […]
I suppose that technically, I already shared this performance from For Tracy Hyde‘s farewell show in Tokyo from this past March, but as good quality as that footage was, it was still pretty raw in terms of production values. They’ve since gussied up the footage – “remixed from multi-track, added unused footage and greatly powered […]
I’m still a little aggrieved that Mexico’s Mint Field canceled their US/Canadian tour back in January just a couple weeks after I rabbit-holed on the band, but I guess the upside is that it let me spend quality time with their 2018 debut Pasar de las Luces and last year’s Levitation Sessions. They made good […]
Malmö, Sweden’s Echo Ladies continue to ramp up to the September 8 release of their second album Lilies, offering up a fourth and final advance single with accompanying video in “Coming Home”. Based on these previews, the trio look to not only be avoiding any kind of sophomore slump, but are improving on the weak […]
I’m going to try and not think about this third preview of Slowdive’s forthcoming everything is alive as meaning that we’ve now already heard more than a third of the new record. I’m just going to enjoy another day with new Slowdive music. This one is the final track of alive and unlike “Falling Ashes”, […]
If I haven’t said it in as many words in the past, for all the talk about the new wave of American shoegaze, not a lot of it does much for me. A lot of them have their roots in genres that do nothing for me – metal, hardcore, emo, etc – and adding chorus […]
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 […]
