can someone show me a NEW shoegaze band

Malory! Isobella! Paik! Pacific UV!

fucking Clairecords people!!!!

sort yourselves out

I think most bands these days that are labelled "shoegazer" would be better suited to "slowcore" or "dream-pop" labels.

Labelling is wrong.

Coldplay have certainly been influenced by Catherine Wheel, My Bloody Valentine and other bands like that, but that's not to say they're a shoegazer band.

I guess this is a semantical debate. Shoegazer, to me, isn't about an "atmospheric aesthetic", it's much more specific than that.

I declare 2004 the year of the Shoegaze. I'm chinese for sake of argument. With all the discussion around here about it in the last month or so I feel Congress will agree.

A firecracker parade will follow.

this thread is good now

www.theearlies.com

I will now check out melodic.com

I would click the "Free Sample Issue" button on the side and see what happens.

This zine is run by Ryan Anderson who used to play with Fuxa back in the old Michigan space rock days. Each issue comes with a free cd comp that is mostly showgaze and space rock. If you are interested in that sound they are very worth picking up. Ryan keeps the prices dirt cheap, they cost $7.20 a piece and that covers the shipping.

If you do decide to pick up back issues I would recommend that you start with issue three and work your way forward. The first couple issues were a bit patchy but they got better with every following issue.

As far as bands go, I would recommend looking into Tristeza/The Album Leaf, Cerberus Shoal, Landing, Hinterland, and Tex La Homa. ESOJ's(the surface noise) and Ned's picks are both completely otm and I would have recommended them myself if they had not beaten me to the punch.

Readymade isn't exactly new. They were sending out annoying promo stuff 6/7 years ago.

The Meeting Places as well...reasonable enough rotegaze.

M83, now lemme tell ya, I guess I enjoyed the album the one time I heard it, but that was six months ago and I haven't felt any need to listen again.

Everyone should hear the new For Against.

Also Trespassers William, whose cover of Ride's "Vapour Trail" is gorgeous and a fair sign of how they sound in general.

pepe(vocalist of weedisneys)
tnx!

Clairecords is the biggest shoegaze label out there at the moment, or for the past 5 years for that matter. They also run Tonevendor, the biggest mailorder for the related genres. Just look at some of the bands they've released.

Monster Movie (ex-slowdive)
Astrobrite (loveliescrushing)
Highspire
Malory
Airiel
The Ecstasy of St. Theresa
Paik
Stella Luna
Electro Group
Con Dolore
Mahogony
Pia Fraus
Sciflyer
Hartfield,
Air Formation
etc.

You want bands not on Claire?

Ulrich Schnauss
M83
the Meeting Places
Experimental Aircraft
Skywave
the Emerald Down
Landing
Whirlaway
Alcian Blue
Bethany Curve
Voyager 1

That's just about everyone you need to know that's been doing good shoegaze type stuff over the past 5 years.

they have some samples here which i cannot understate how much they should be listened to.

I really like Ulrich Schnauss. Electro IDM-ish shoegaze.

Highspire's currently my favorite out of the bunch. Their new cd is really great. I find myself humming some of their hooks a lot.

I find Bethany Curve and Voyager 1 a bit to inaccessible for my tastes. Good music to go to sleep to though.

I think shoegaze is a pretty boring concept nowadays (I went to this gig a few years ago where they gave out this compilation CD of lots of new shoegazer bands and they all sucked) but I did like the last Voyager One album "Monster Zero".

For Against are SO underrated..

thats what i think.

Check out words-on-music.com all the stuff they put out is solid. Should aren't exactly new but both of their albums are super great (not exactly shoegaze but close enough). Meeting Places are good too. Avoid Motion Picture.

they're nice kids.

!

Watch out for the new Air Formation disc. That should be good. Great band.

Highspire, them I've not heard of. Hmm...

i love quotes like, "american kids don't really do shoegazing all that well"... [insert cynical derision here.]
m.

It made me dig out Sunkissed by Guitar the other day, I don't seem to like it anymore.

I think if you're gonna do Shoegazery kind of stuff I reckon you have to be really analogue (maybe a bit lofi) with it, digital shoegaze sounds too processed to my ears and lacks that other worldly sound.

Digital/Electro Shoegaze = 3d Computer generated other worldly landscapes a la Primus artwork or something.

The MBV sound = A really chunky abstract Van Gogh.

i love their album. i sometimes see the spiritualized connection, sometimes not. but it's really good anyway.

god i wish i was in tokyo now.

C'mon, people.

http://www.aplacetoburystrangers.com/

and the newest Air Formation album on clairecords is also quite good.

and i guess its not exactly new, but the Mahogany single/ep collection on darla is excellent, better than their LP i'd say.

http://www.clubac30.com/releases/release.php?RID=63A1AA758C1815EF6C1E0B6C21DD7E90

HOLLA!

i just discovered last night that they are still around. they were great!

heh

http://www.lastfm.com/music/slowmotionmovie

I still need to get the Serena Maneesh album, as well.

http://www.charmparticles.com/listen.php

Abby Go Go from Tuscaloosa.

So here's a new one from me -- the Voices, from Wales. Am reviewing this for Plan B and holy heck, how come I haven't heard these characters before? Nothing new but they put it together perfectly.

we did some shows with these guys, super-shoegaze. some connection to Stratford 4 I think

fleeting joys and a sunny day in glasgow seconded

how about 800 beloved.

heard the aforementioned Sunkissed LP by Guitar a month ago and was reminded of it's Loveless-ishness... and not in a phony way, I mean straight up Loveless-esque textures.

that came out lame. i meant that you hear so many incorrect/unfair comparisons of new bands to Loveless that it's like a kiss of death almost. but in this case, it's pretty spot-on IMHO LMBO.

Airiel's new album is pretty damn good, esp. "You Kids Should Know Better," which sounds like a Slowdive/BRMC mashup, only wayyyyy better than BRMC.

I don't want to say damning with faint praise there but...

I tried, but my "wayyyyy" isn't effective enough ;_;

A noble effort!

I'm really liking the Foxtail Somersault ep released this year.
Band's site to give the ep a listen -- http://foxtailsomersault.com/media.html

the brother kite are really, really good

also club ac30 has been putting out nothing but fantastic records for a while now - the domino state 45, the wry ep and the hearts of black science stuff has all been tremendous

Alcest

the new Pluramon lp The Monstrous Surplus is great, and VERY shoegaze.

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/4108/31qt8tgk5rlaa240rv8.jpg

I still like that Rumskib album.

The last ac30 record I bought was the one with Highspire on it. After 1.5 bottles of wine and a lot of turkey the highspire track sounds great!

everything they've put out since has been better than everything they put out up to that point

I opened this thread to say Brother Kite. So.

Just stumbled upon Exit Calm's myspace. They're from the UK, shoegaze with soaring Bono vocals. I'm liking it a lot.

http://www.myspace.com/exitcalm

gospel gossip are from northfield, mn and do shoegaze alongside sort of shorter poppier echo and the bunnymen stuff...really good

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=79670833

i agree with jim, brother kite are really really good. it seems so preposterous to say 'brian wilson fronting a shoegazer band' but that is really what it sounds like. they aren't quite amazing, but the next one could be.

brother kite is very very good. id say more pop than shoegaze as presented on records tho.

are they slept on, or just not marketable, i wonders?

Good band, yes.

Anyway, another recent favorite: Autodrone

http://www.myspace.com/autodrone

slept on, i think. if they'd been around in the early 90s and were on slumberland they would be massive

xpost

http://www.myspace.com/thrushes

spc eco are quite good

i didn't realise the singer was dean garcia's daughter

khonnor will tickle you in a fenneszy fashion

the new pia fraus has been produced by norman blake. that seems odd. out in may. secret shine album out in april.

i was pretty down on secret shine after hearing that appalling "morris 1974-2005" record, but a couple of the recent singles have been ok. i hope they never do an acoustic record again.

my new thing: emogaze. you'll know what i mean in 2009.

Just the world didn't need.

the recent singles form secret shine have been very good. i thought. i never heard that morris record. there is also a new malory record out this year apparently though they have been on a steady decline since the fantastic debut.

i know what emogaze is already

i never heard that third malory lp. not worth the time? the first two are beautiful, tho i prefer the second

the third is more similar to the second than the first. they keep losing the fuzz. it's cleaner than the first two records, more pop but still kinda dreary.

uhhhh, emogaze actually exists?

APPLESEED CAST

surprised not to see more asobi seksu love. the latest stuff is so lovely. i understand now why they headline club ac30 all the time.

i don't know if anyone else has been keeping up with the club ac30 singles but the recent air formation one was very good, the televise remixes were nice if unremarkable, exit calm heading into anonymous shoegaze territories

brother kite are recording their new album now.

prolific

heard bits of the new secret shine, it sounds like their sarah album but with not quite as good vocals

tears run rings lp is fairly standard clairecords fare but i like it a lot

Cloudland Canyon are pretty gazey sometimes

A friend just recommended Sea Dweller as well as this blog in general:

http://shoegazeralive.blogspot.com

I just got this self-described shoegaze band's album and will probably be seeing them live in a couple weeks:

http://www.myspace.com/kadman

between them, Thrushes (previously mentioned upthread) and Wye Oak there's a nice little shoegaze mini-boom in Baltimore these days.

Rescue Mission from Austin TX isn't half bad: http://www.myspace.com/rescuemissionmusic

most of their tunes have a sort of Ride/Swervedriver/Catherine Wheel sound going on, with bits of early Cure (see "Conversion" via the myspace link) once in a while. maybe not shoegaze-y enough in the production, more pop, but the influences are definitely there.

the guys opened for BIRD (aka Mark Burgess and Yves Altana) on their US tour last spring, even did a Chameleons cover ("View from a Hill") with Mark on vocals, pretty cool. they've got my full recommendation.

in fact, from the myspace bio:

Founded in early 2005, Rescue Mission was formed in the interest of creating an 80s British post-punk inspired pop group with a mixture of 90s shoegaze/wall of sound influences.

The High Violets adhere the shoegazing basics, but they've got a good spin on things to make it worth a listen. They're terrific live

http://www.thehighviolets.com/

Basinski-shoegaze: Belong. So gorgeous!

The Charmparticles:

http://www.charmparticles.com/listen.php

-- righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Saturday, 10 June 2006 00:58 (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

<3 <3

The Distant Relatives
^Badass album just came out.
Abby Go Go
^ from Tuscaloosa, AL. Broken up now, have a new band or something. Good.

new pia fraus and daysleepers albums up on emusic

downloading now...

Belong OTM, Colorloss Record is a beautiful EP

labelmates with the ace Anemones too

I saw a shoegaze band called Sennen a couple of years ago. Certainly as a live band they seemed appealing.

they sound like teenage fanclub now (if it's the same one)

speaking of teenage fanclub i note that this new pia fraus thing was produced by norman blake. not that it's obvious in the sound, although an individual personality is coming through far more here than their previous stuff. whether that's the band or norman it's difficult to say

the secret shine album is probably as good as their earlier stuff but i really do think it's time for them to hand the mixing duties over to someone new. whatever vocal processing they're using is starting to really grate

one listen to the daysleepers album tells me that the brother kite have really changed the shoegazing landscape. this can only be a good thing

i really like that alcest record. it's very pretty. sort of melancholy and deeply pensive in a way that isn't depressing at all.

really like asobi seksu. quite like rescue mission. certain other bands that have been mentioned are good too...

actually, the alcest is excellent. i thought i was gonna wind up finding it thin initially, but it's a total grower.

i can't get enough of the latest charmparticles album. i think this is easily one of the top 5 gaze albums of this decade

will check that out, mr. sound.

yay!

(it gets even better with repeated listenings)

pains of being pure at heart <3

sounds like dave conway era mbv. which as anyone knows is their best era.

anyone listening to the Sunset records?

don't know em, got a link?

the latest auburn lull album is not nearly as good as cast from the platform..

Is Monster Movie still a band? There are a handful of tracks of theirs I still come back to and get obsessed with every couple of months.

Shugazi?

Is Monster Movie still a band?

They were still recording as of March, but no news since.

Those last couple Sunset records were okay. After I was done listening to them I couldn't remember a note.

Blackstrap are really good. Not pure shoegaze, but there's definitely a heavy influence:

http://www.myspace.com/blackstrap001

the latest auburn lull album is not nearly as good as cast from the platform..

this is incorrect. :)

ok to be fair it's pretty good,there's just no big pop hit like 'season of false starts'

autodrone are pretty good, remind me of scarling a bit, hope sandoval-esque singer

^avoid their earlier EP though, like it was plague

aspen woods are more psychy than gazey but are v good

also been diggin the voices, and headquarters. again a bit more psych than gaze but reverby enough to fit in

digging this new Asobi Seksu album that Polyvinyl sent me. reminds me of Sugar Plant at times, which is a good thing. older Sugar Plant. not later ultra-dreamy/trance Sugar Plant. other songs actually sound like Kitchens of Distinction + female vocs. which is also a good thing.

saw them live the other night (w/ Thrushes, the Baltimore shoegaze band I mentioned upthread), almost fell asleep but that had more to do with me feeling terrible and exhausted than them, although they didn't help. new album is definitely less listenable than Citrus.

i've never heard citrus. or anything else by them. i really like this album though, so, i guess i'd really really like citrus. i mean, it's nothing "new", you know, but it's pleasant and i like the pretty noises.

yeah, pretty noises never go out of style

Looking forward to the new A Sunny Day in Glasgow album.

Trying to remember who I heard the other day that actually stood out amid the usual hoohah. I should take more notes.

my new thing: emogaze. you'll know what i mean in 2009.

― burt_stanton, Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:36 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oh god oh god oh god.

That might already be the Helio Sequence (who I like but anyway).

(Alternately, maybe Coldplay is long already the washed-out and tamped down version of this.)

The Helio Sequence to me sounds like Modest Mouse gone alt-shoegaze. Not a good thing.

the new songs on the brother kite website are dismal. fountains of wayne-ish power pop, yikes.

Vanessa Van Basten. The band. Italian. Endlessly better than the first and second wave of twiddlers.

wow. Vanessa Van Basten. thanks for the suggestion. But too bad there's no hot frontwoman named Vanessa.

sad day for puppets <3 <3

also the suki ewers album is probably more slowcore than shoegaze (kramer prod, heavily in debt to galaxie/mazzy star) but i'm sure youse guys would diggit

New Engineers album that just came out is pretty fuckin decent.

^^^^omg they're back?!?!??!?!?!!!?!?!?!

Is it out yet? is it as good as rumoured?

6 July apparently. I actually visited their Myspazz about 2 months ago and the new stuff seemed good.

...but I didn't know the album was due this soon!

Disappointed in the new album cover, tbh, but really glad they have a new one coming out. Also glad to see some ilm love for these guys!

hang on, is that an *actual* Cluster sample there?

Sorry to be slow in replying but yes Engineers album's out and its pretty awerome -synths and proggy and shoegazey goodness.

gotta pick that up. the lea shores album that just came out is super lovely too

i probably mentioned it on the rolling indie thread but the SPC ECO album is really really lovely.

was disappointed by the 2nd fleeting joys record. songs maybe a little less weak than the first but they seemed to have ditched trying to sound like mbv for sounding like lenola instead

beyond that things seem to be pretty quiet in shoegaze land, at least as far as i'm aware

love the drums on "shine on down"

cant find it anywhere tho, just copping myspace streams

tis on emusic and also sh0egaz3ralive

i like SPC ECO, but arent they really a 1 by 1 copy-paste band of 90's shoegaze?
they do it good - yes, but totally nothing that you havent heard before.

you're on a thread about a genre that's been endlessly retreading itself for nearly 20 years

i don't know if that's an especially compelling criticism

you know what'd be good, is shoegaze-meets-baltimore club

haha jk i think i'd kill myself and all of u

good point, though still - there are some acts who succeeded in performing the genre with a new ,interesting angle.

xpost

no argument here. i certainly would never claim that most of these bands are anything close to original. they just all happen to have a sound that pushes the right buttons for me..

of course, were they getting large amounts of hype on p4k, i would be hating on them so fast

also looooool haitch

http://www.divshare.com/download/8914303-d59

hand programmed electrogaze action. maybe someone will like it- maybe even Jim. it sounds better hella loud and when drinking. not a bmore club thang.

turn drums down and everything else up and you've got a winner

i have shitty eq gear but i get you, jim. winner? thanks.

Yeah, good job. What electric sound said... I would add even more distortion, and how about a melody?

Thanks, The supposed vocalist never showed up.....supposed to provide the melody part. Dude said like too upbeat.

I wanna hear tunes from ilxors now...guh.

you be wanting this thread: What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

For sure. But I created this thread so I figured to add to it.

The sample used by Engineers on Three Fact Fader is of Watussi by Harmonia.

You can all rest easy now.

new Malory single is gorgeous

also i am now really digging the depreciation guild album

Depreciation guild Is a lot of fun. Sorta Labrador records-ish. I downloaded the new Malory record maybe I should listen but they've been on a slow decline since the debut album.

When I read this I realized I have a copy of that Depreciation Guild album I haven't listened to. It sounds good (pretty- clear vinyl too).

The sample used by Engineers on Three Fact Fader is of Watussi by Harmonia.

Yeah this actually got me off my butt and listening to Harmonia and Cluster albums.

is the brother kite ever gonna release another lp?

I always wondered what shoegaze meant. So many bands fit in that genre or maybe not but they were labeled as such. Kind of like how I feel when I go on Emusic and see shit like Fort Lauterdale and MGMT listed as "punk"... I'm beginning to think genres no longer have any meaning other than what is perceived as cool and marketable. Kids grow up on something called "punk" and so they think they're punk because they were influenced by it, but in reality they are more appropriately labeled as neo psychedelia or something.

shit gaze.

i mean stuff like Blank Dogs. is the new shoe gaze. i don't want "feel good" abstract electric guitar pop. i want damaged abject dirty lo-fi noise.

Brother kite's album is done. Seems like they are trying to figure out how to release it. The samples were uninspiring.

yeah i remembered your comment from months ago. i heard some of the early mixes. hope they figured out how to save it.

any thoughts on the Exit Calm album? i like the sounds a lot, but the guy's voice seems a little out of place. a little Vedderish at times.

Shoegrunge?

that makes me think of catherine wheel for some reason

I'm into the Ghost Society album, which is probably technically more dreampoppy than shoegazery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtFsSjxun20

^ - boy these sort of bands have looked and dressed the same for 20 years, no style never going out of style.

Here's a pleasant, and potentially exhausting, trip down memory lane for anyone who grew up on this stuff/read the Melody Maker 90-93/attended lots of North London gigs.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/group.php?gid=125551254127044&ref=ts

The photo section has lots of interesting comments.

I'm honestly not sure what to think about this:

it can arguably be said that the music scene in and around Camden Town, London during the late 1980's - early 1990's was one of the last scenes to emerge and grow in any kind of organic way. Back then you could sell 12,000 EPs and still be nobody- that kind of behavior would put you in the Top 10 these days

bullshit really

Girl bass player never going out of style either apparently.

not so sure about this second serena maneesh record (and never got into the first one).

the first one was pretty weak imo - there's no 'drain cosmetics' on this record but i think it's better overall

crash city saints album pretty good - quite a bit more lively than your usual MBV ripoffs.. there's bits of curve, raveonettes, early velocity girl etc in there. nothing even remotely original but a lovely listen

nothing even remotely original but a lovely listen

The more original the nu-shoegaze/dreampop band, the less interested I am. It's one of the only genres of rock I can think of that I don't want fucked around with and modernized in any way.

That problem is, that approach is how you end up with bands like Air Formation.

johnny fever you completely baffle me sometimes

It's one of the only genres of rock I can think of that I don't want fucked around with and modernized in any way.

I kinda agree with the sentiment- but it has happened and will always happen. See new synth-hop.

New High Violets record is pretty good. Working with Schnauss on that remix album seems to have helped.

Estonia seems to keep putting out a new clutch of good 'gaze types -- thus these folks:

http://www.myspace.com/imandralake

Nother new Engineers album: this one has Ulrich Schnauss's paw prints all over it which could be good or really bad. I'm liking the single/prerelease track, but if its a whole album of that I might be a bit "umm..."

Prids latest album is closer to that dreampoppy Silversun Pickups style (boy/girl harmonies, buzzy guitar washes) than their earlier goth work fwiw.

I like that link, Ned!

Ooh I agree thats quite pretty stuff. I like that theyre singing in Estonian too, it adds to that Liz Fraserish obscurity :)

Not a new band per se but Jefre Cantu-Ledesma of Tarental/the Root Strata label et al has a new album out on Type, Love is a Stream, which is v much shoegaze-inspired -- and which he confirmed just now on Facebook via a comment of mine was partially Lovesliescrushing-inspired, which is always a good sign. You can hear it via Type:

http://typerecords.com/releases/love-is-a-stream-2-2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3xATi5s9-A

http://www.vimeo.com/15648757

The vimeo link is from Merchandise which is the better of those 2 songs..

here it is again: http://vimeo.com/15648757

That's a band I would've ignored by name, but thanks for posting a video. I rather like it!

Yeah the name is weak, but what can ya do...

xp I dig the Crash City Saints album a lot!

looking fwd to the ringo ds album a lot even if they are just another jamc ripoff

melbourne's three month sunset (who recently changed their name to lowtide, though i don't think they've released anything under the new name yet) put out this lovely (but very heavily in debt to slowdive) EP last year.. it's good

http://www.emusic.com/album/Three-Month-Sunset-You-Are-My-Good-Light-MP3-Download/12336587.html

Holy shit. I just found this release:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000O77KH0/ref=s9_simh_gw_p15_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1TBSKHEE2B1ETV29E3EW&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846

It really has some beautiful tunes on there. Interested in hearing the newer album.
Someone let me know if they also think this is great.

had a listen to their EP on emusic, sounds nice

Yeah, its a really solid EP. It is always much more fun when you find something you know nothing about, and it turns out to be super good.

Hmm, like the cover.

Three Month Sunset really hit the Slowdive thing on the head, but the songs sound great! I need to hear the full versions now...

Also, Slowdive - Lowtide?

Hmm, like the cover.

― Ned Raggett

Thats how they get ya

yeah i'm not a fan of the name change i must say xpost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NseeOkYBnao&feature=related

I hear some Lilys leaning qualities in most of their material

mentioned it on the indie thread but the new Ringo Deathstarr single 'so high' is ripped straight from Ecstasy & Wine, except perkier. and is all the better for it.

so yeah there's a ringo deathstarr album now and it's quite something

so yeah there's a ringo deathstarr album now and it's quite something

― miss pansy twist (electricsound), Tuesday, February 15, 2011 7:36 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

more like..... ISN'T ANYTHING

HAAW!

i guess

I find MBV puns to be unavoidable, and I have ended many friendships because of them.

btw that album is great, i just despise the name like no other

electricsound why is it that whenever I search any of my favorite obscure 90s bands one of your posts always pops up?

Ringo Deathstar sounds like a chiptune band name.

I should check these guys oot, that said.

electricsound why is it that whenever I search any of my favorite obscure 90s bands one of your posts always pops up?

ha, bad habit of mine

RD video on my FB wall trayce

Oh swoit *looks*

Holee shit yr not kidding about the Ecstcy and Wine rip. THis is adorb.

more ecstasy than wine imo

been listening to the new Cut Copy tonight & track #7: 'this is all we've got' is some premium 'gaze.

Cut Copy are gazey now? ... I thought they were more a presets-ish band, I have never given them much of a listen tbh

since the beginning, certain strains of CC have been pretty obviously shoegaze-influenced, but the track I mentioned sounds straight-up like an early Moose song. Most of the other tracks on the album are more blip-bleep, gloop-gorp than that.

heh heh gloop-gorp.

Hey I see this jam has already been mentioned but I wanted to post it here anyway...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6J-qS4eLWY

heh

i admire the brazenness of it

Yeah those are some balls to steal so shammelessly but they do a damn fine job of it! I love it.

God what is WITH my typing at the moment, geez.

young prisms

<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VWtHPRavmcg"; frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWtHPRavmcg

just got into swirlies again and don't think i'm leaving for another couple wks. holy fuck what an organized band.

That "So High" lick has been in my head for days now. no problem IMO with aping another band's sound as long as the songwriting is solid.

I can never figure out what my favorite Swirlies release is.

There are new vinyl copies of "What To Do About Them" on amazon and new vinyl copies of "They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days..." on ebay for really cheap.

Blonder Tongue is the expensive rare one.

Anyway, I still highly recommend that She, Sir EP I was talking about here. Really great stuff. Not as crazy about the full length.

i have been enjoying the she sir EP a lot.

my fave swirlies is the slumberland 45. i think i might have expressed that i consider it among the top ten 45s of the 90s.

Ah yes, but it all appears on "What To Do About Them," along with some other incredible songs.

I've been getting into some shoegazey metal, like Les Discrets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sa2HZqvT5c

Glad Sennen were at least mentioned. I don't think they sound like Teenage Fanclub.

http://music.is-amazing.com/sites/music.is-amazing.com/files/imagecache/Covers/covers/sennes.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm9fdMsd7KY

Sometimes the "metalness" of the band's sound provide a hint of cheesiness, but I really like song. Thats awesome, chap.

That Sennen song is pretty huge, too.

Glad you like it, the whole Les Discrets album's pretty amazing.

It's one dude doing everything but the drumming, by the way.

Very cool, I'm going to check out the album.

cosign on Les Discrets

not really feeling the Ringo Deathstarr tunes I've heard -- like, I get it guys, you like MBV a whole fucking lot and can sing like Jim Reid blah blah etc etc. -- do you have ANY original ideas?

has anyone mentioned the Belong album on Kranky? that one's great, bit of a dream pop + drone hybrid w/ bits of 'gaze buried under a MASSIVE cloud of reverb & echo... like hearing an ultrasound of a shoegaze baby in the womb

you like MBV a whole fucking lot and can sing like Jim Reid blah blah etc etc. -- do you have ANY original ideas?

hmm i'm not sure you 'get' shoegaze? like that's the genre in a nutshell iirc

nah i "get" it, would just prefer any sort of subtle twist on the formula, anything!

otherwise may as well just listen to MBV, yknow?

nah, i heard that one already

Still sad there's only one Rumskib album, but what an album it is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2amws8_3ISQ

mentioned three month sunset upthread, they have released a single under their new name Lowtide, and it's just as lovely

http://lowtidemelbourne.bandcamp.com/album/underneath-tonight-memory-no-7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td6wW05kBw8

Glifted is easily one of the most innovative nu-shoegaze bands I can think of. A lot more loop heavy and trancey shoegaze.

Ringo Deathstarr are now on tour: They're playing the Hexagon in Minneapolis Saturday, which is beyond cool.

big troubles and spotlight kid are really doing it for me lately

has anyone mentioned the Belong album on Kranky? that one's great, bit of a dream pop + drone hybrid w/ bits of 'gaze buried under a MASSIVE cloud of reverb & echo... like hearing an ultrasound of a shoegaze baby in the womb

listening to this right now; this is great!

trailblazer tape on night-people (also on bandcamp download) has elements of that belong album too. not as interesting, but i dig it

Thanks for the Belong tip, but do these guys have the stupidest website ever?

What do you mean? There's nothing there but a picture...

one unique signal, one of the their records was a julian cope album of the month

http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/albumofthemonth/2029

v good stuff, there's a new thing on itunes...

^also current telescopes band members

No Joy are pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av0G_TM1ZVY

^ Dunno who they are, but these Whirl folks are alright imo

Discogaze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okxIfEdJaaw

been greatly enjoying the Golden Awesome and Anne records lately

CT is reissuing some Blueshift Signal records too, never heard of them til the reish was announced but it's v nice Clairecordsy stuff

Noted re all these names. And your current handle here.

heh

alcest?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8g9QncPOk0

used to be much more black metal, now almost exclusively shoegazey.

Italy's Be Forest is an interesting proposition. They won't persuade non-gazers, but they're a lot better than the also-rans of the 2nd and 3rd generation.

From Be Forest's 2011 album Cold:
Florence
Dust

From their current "Hanged Man" single:
Hanged Man
I.O.

Some videos:
Florence
Hanged Man

The bandcamp link for the album Cold didn't linkify in last post.

Anybody know the deal with this band "Now, Now" that's featured on Spotify today? Girl vocal shoegazey 90's vibe, don't quite get why Spotify would pick it out, though it's good. Not many views of their videos...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96-3fi0uND0&feature=related

New Frankie Rose album, Interstellar, is pretty much shoegaze.

Am listening to the new Whirr album here. It's nice enough if not wildly compelling.

Got really stuck into School of Seven Bells 'Ghostory' recently.

Whenever I see any band featured on Spodify, I figure someone's record company has paid to put it there. I wouldn't read too much into it.

Hmmm, a little research reveals that Now, Now is in many ways Tegan & Sara gone shoegaze, which is a great thing to me, but probably a scary thought for most of ILM.

not having heard T&S that doesn't mean much to me but i thought the now, now thing sounded nice enough to get off emusic

Whirr's debut LP, Pipe Dreams, out March 13, 2012 on Tee Pee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA-ZIEliNC8&feature=BFa&list=AVAYMcY2vx8GTh4wg_JC5JhFa1Waf6u30W&lf

this is pretty damn good, imo.

I think I've posted about Ghost Society before (maybe in this thread?). Anyway, I just came across this live-in-studio performance from 2012 which is kind of jawdropping. The precision with which Sara Savery does the Liz Fraser-ish vocal bit in the post-chorus is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Wjqdo-fvM

*2010

not that jaw dropping. pretty lethargic.

I hate you.

ha. are they american? american shoegaze bands take themselves so seriously. i'd bet they were from new york.

Denmark.

ah, they're po-faced too under byen, efterklang.

Keyboardist has the Gillian Gilbert down cold. I like it.

Been playing this a lot recently, v lovely:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWU37Hr6_Uc

http://heavensgate.bandcamp.com/

^ kinda getting kicked around the edges of the shea stadium/2585 brooklyn scene. They used to be under a different name/lineup that I am COMPLETELY blanking on for some reason.

Sweet Bulbs. They used to be Sweet Bulbs

i dug sweet bulbs, sounds like good stuff

Glad to hear you're liking the Golden Awesome, ESoJ - did you ever hear any of vocalist Stef's work as Stef Animal? Was going to release something on Bachelorette's label about five years ago, but lost the masters - of the bits & pieces that had bobbed around, there was a gorgeous cover of the 3Ds' "Cash None", amongst other things.

i didn't - tbh i can't remember how i tripped over the GA in the first place! do they have any available releases at all?

Nothing official, sadly. I'll have a fossick around - what I have might be in storage back in NZ, but if not I'll send it your way. Stef was in Dunedin band Mëstar ages ago with John White, too - dreampop bubblegrunge tracks like Secret Garden hold up pretty well imo.

Golden Awesome have an album out on M'Ladys & you can get in here on Bandcamp http://thegoldenawesomenz.bandcamp.com/

Album also available on vinyl

Oh, wait, Golden Awesome totally have a release out; was meaning Stef Animal =p

M'Ladys connection is via Fi from Coasting IIRC, who used to be in (awesome NZ band) the Coolies.

ah there you go - quite dig coasting too, though their album is a touch more lo-fi than really works for them

young prisms have done their homework on the haircuts but not so much on the music, although i guess they could pass for beach house tribute band on some tracks.

Is/Is is a new shoegazey band from Mpls...the song Death Treat is great

http://is-is.bandcamp.com/track/death-treat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pSqj-xWJnM

electricsound I just now am checking out the first Big Troubles album. I'm really liking it- but did they go the same direction as Pains of Being Pure at Heart with the second album? Haven't heard it.

they turned into a jangly powerpop band instead

In a good way or bad? Also Freudian Slips is a bit of a blatant Boo Radleys rip.

I also live right next to Ridgewood relatively and am upset I don't get to jam with this whole scene of late 80s early 90s inspired guitar pop lovers (referring to Real Estate and those I've yet to discover). But I don't know what I'd have to do to befriend these people.

a bit

to say the least

i like 'romantic comedy', about a third of it is fantastic, but it doesn't "sound" as nice as its predecessor

not a new band, but I'm sad that the Austin, TX band Astroblast has never been mentioned on ilx. tweegaze/Slumberland/Velocity Girl type stuff with lots of keyboards — search their 2003 album This Will Help You on Your Way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9ozazHKXLg

Very cool! I like it, thanks!

That's not bad...but what about "harder" stuff? I mean, I like Cable and Isis, which is sort of like art metal but they're kind of shoegazy. Like really LOUD guitars.

Have we mentioned Whirr yet?

i thought the whirr album was pretty generic, but there was potential there

Hammock are new to me but lord this is doing it for me right about now:

http://hammockmusic.com/departure-songs

Neat. Hammock's past work has been largely instrumental which placed it in the post-rock continuum, but I always thought they should bring in a vocalist.

From 2009:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjIWriDTptY

They were on one of those shoegaze cover compilations in the mid 2000s - Never Lose That Feeling album if I am remembering correctly. They covered "Black Metallic"

this one: http://www.discogs.com/Various-Never-Lose-That-Feeling-Volume-2/release/812718

Which reminds me, David Altobelli's videos for Hammock may be the most poignant, beautiful indie music videos I've ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rENnKECnfs

just wanted to say this Hammock album is incredible

Knew you would love it.

"(Let's Kiss) While the Stars are All Falling Down" has been on repeat for a while now.

haha that's exactly the song that was playing which prompted me to post to this thread

Wish the timelapse went on longer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w9EiRIXtE8

Okay, another one here, from Bristol, and they have a lot to choose from:

http://soundcloud.com/stumbleineuk

Very much on the neoelectrogaze tip, plus flecks of ethereal r'n'b (but this isn't How to Dress Well etc. if that's your concern). And they're named after a Smashing Pumpkins song, of COURSE I like 'em.

not totally shoegaze but lots of gauzy guitars and dreaminess

Pony Trash from Mpls, kind of like crazy horse/the chills/the church in a blender, slick basslines too

http://ponytrash1.bandcamp.com/

The headline is correct. For better or worse.

would the besnard lakes fall into this category?

Need emphasis:

"We are not rock," shouted back frontman Blixa Bargeld. "We are shoegaze; look at your fucking shoes!"

that article was pretty bad in a couple of ways

My Bloody Valentine, grandaddies of 'gaze, finally release the album they started 17 years ago and suddenly, somehow, along comes a massive wang of new bands sounding like music's equivalent of mumblecore

followed by a list of bands some of which have been around for five years or more

"It was when 'shoegaze' was given as a genre option on MySpace that it became acceptable to label your music in that way,"

holy shit this is piffle

No Joy's Wait To Pleasure (April 23) gets the advance streaming treatment on Pitchfork this week.

I think thisthreaders will find much to like.

this is nice

http://halfstring.bandcamp.com/track/honeycut

I've been sort of meaning to pick up the Half String reissue 2xLP thing on CT for awhile now. Do you have that?

Of course. I had all the ipr stuff anyway but the extra tracks were cool

would the besnard lakes fall into this category?

Finally got around to listening to their new album after seeing them at Austin Psych Fest, and yeah - they fall into this. This is the most Slowdivey thing I've heard in years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXTVedMZTL0

No Joy's Wait To Pleasure (April 23) gets the advance streaming treatment on Pitchfork this week.

I think thisthreaders will find much to like.

― Me So Hormetic (Sanpaku), Thursday, April 18, 2013 9:22 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is on spotify and is really good

I picked up Ghost Blonde by them not long ago. Is the new one better?

Wait To Pleasure is one of my favourite albums of the year so far... so, yes :D

New Exit Calm single. I love the Verve too, but sheesh...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExRI5AQ8xUE

Did the Besnard Lakes improve a bit or something? They always seemed kinda there.

Currently getting my attention is Eros and the Eschaton, about to release a debut album. Got some earlier tracks up on their Bandcamp site:

http://goldenhearts.bandcamp.com/album/songs

And more info here:

http://www.theunderbellyofthesun.org/Eros_and_the_Eschaton/aum_mani_padme_hum.html

https://www.facebook.com/erosandtheeschaton

Been listening to the album this morning -- nice take on the whole American homegrown 'gaze/couple approach, and some actually loud/twisted/violent moments with a few curve balls along the way. It's a good start rather than something truly remarkable, but it IS good.

Did the Besnard Lakes improve a bit or something? They always seemed kinda there.

Ran across them in Austin and dug what they were doing. I think the new album is a keeper.

there was a p big jump in their songwriting from dark horse to roaring night imo

Giving the new one a listen now, it does seem more intriguing. Maybe they just needed their woodshedding phase.

Lovesilkpalemilk might be a little too post-punk, but bits of the latest album/ep/whatever (on Paradigms) are like Garlands era Cocteau Twins in places.

a couple of new(ish) aussie ones i love

roku music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmbEG4_kY1E

flyying colours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G12Itbv0q8s

actually i should have put this one for FC. love this so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9wnpiiMUJs

Second song is great!

Seconded, nice track.

they played flyying colours wavygravy on bbc radio6 last week.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03xpcr8

Deifnitely like them better than the other Flying Colors (the Mike Portnoy, Neal Morse pop-prog supergroup).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btqggj8cWFU

^Wish there was an entire album that sounded like this.

Yeah that could be their best song.

i think i like the Cheatahs album a very great deal

This one seems promising, though I've only listened a little. Jetman Jet Team. Definitely have the sound down, I just haven't had time to live with the songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn-3ejk2KiM

Vaadat Charigim - terrific Israeli neo shoegaze!

Another vote for Cheetahs - 'the Swan' especially

Yeah, I've ended up liking the Cheatahs album a lot more than I thought I would. Also really liking the Flyying Colours, so thank for that rec, above.

I recently heard a great track from 2011 in a Songza playlist by The Golden Awesome who I'd never heard of. Facebook page shows some relatively recent live activity but no mention of new music. A quick sample of their album makes it sound promising though:

http://thegoldenawesomenz.bandcamp.com

I've really been enjoying the latest from Champaign's Withershins, Mt. Fuji in Blue. It's not exclusively shoegaze, there is some (eek!) post rock in here too, but some really great moments of fuzzed out bliss. The vocals and lyrics can be a bit of a stumbling block, more than once I wished a track was instrumental, but when they really lock in I'm finding this to be pretty compelling, musically anyway.

Yeah that's not shoegaze. I have this weird and probably unfair impulse to reject the shoegaze tag for anything with those shouty college town vocals in it. To me, it gives it away as ex-emo/hardcore or indie players (I'm betraying my age a bit here) who probably bought delay pedals after trying drugs or sexual intercourse. They know who MBV is, for example, but have really no idea why the band is so important.

I guess it's pretty unfair of me because some Estonian black metal/Detroit techno hybrid band could get tagged with shoegaze and I wouldn't bat an eyelash even if they growled Javascript syntax into a vocoder.

Yeah, I get exactly what you mean and it probably isn't shoegaze, but I wasn't sure what other thread to talk about the album in. It's definitely not metal and, despite the vocals, it doesn't fit in with the emo revival thing either.

i'll second Vadaat Charigim, their album from last/this year (or whenever) is sneaky great

uh, make that Vaadat, not Vadaat boy is my face red

this is a local band that seems very indebted to mbv

http://wildhoneysound.bandcamp.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2K5R3sb_NI

got a single of theirs the other day, it's not half bad

Yeah, I get exactly what you mean and it probably isn't shoegaze, but I wasn't sure what other thread to talk about the album in. It's definitely not metal and, despite the vocals, it doesn't fit in with the emo revival thing either.

There's an emo revival? Is there a thread for that? I might lurk.

rolling emo/pop/punk/bullshit/feelings about pizza or something like that. thread rules.

the Vaadat Charigim album is so great.

the upcoming Lees of Memory album is pretty shoegazey. it's the dudes from Superdrag.

full stream here: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2014/09/an_interview_w_75.html

gr8080: Thank you for mentioning Vaadat Charigim. I checked out the album and it's quickly become one of my favorites of the past few years. Nothing particularly groundbreaking about it, but great guitar tone, great songs, tight playing, really nice downer vibe. They seem like interesting dudes, too, based on the few interviews I've read.

i saw a band called Leave The Planet last week, who had all the right ingredients but just kinda mushed them together.

anyway, looking for samples this morning up popped these in the 'related bands' section of one website:

http://www.coctailtwins.com/

WORST. NAME. EVER.

not strictly "shoegaze", but an excellent record from this year that seems likely to appeal to fans of the genre:

https://soundcloud.com/flenserrecords/botanist-rhizophora

Yeah, the Botanist record is gorgeous. Love it.