The sample used by Engineers on Three Fact Fader is of Watussi by Harmonia.
You can all rest easy now.
― Doran, Friday, 16 October 2009 13:41 (fifteen years ago) link
new Malory single is gorgeous
also i am now really digging the depreciation guild album
― iTote 2.0 (electricsound), Friday, 22 January 2010 08:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― keythhtyek, Saturday, 23 January 2010 00:43 (fourteen years ago) link
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).
― Evan, Saturday, 23 January 2010 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah this actually got me off my butt and listening to Harmonia and Cluster albums.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Saturday, 23 January 2010 03:08 (fourteen years ago) link
is the brother kite ever gonna release another lp?
― u b ilxin' (Hunt3r), Saturday, 23 January 2010 04:18 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Ray Gunner, Saturday, 23 January 2010 04:29 (fourteen years ago) link
shit gaze.
― zoom, Saturday, 23 January 2010 13:18 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― zoom, Saturday, 23 January 2010 13:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Brother kite's album is done. Seems like they are trying to figure out how to release it. The samples were uninspiring.
― keythhtyek, Saturday, 23 January 2010 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i remembered your comment from months ago. i heard some of the early mixes. hope they figured out how to save it.
― u b ilxin' (Hunt3r), Saturday, 23 January 2010 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― electricsound, Thursday, 3 June 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Shoegrunge?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 June 2010 00:05 (fourteen years ago) link
that makes me think of catherine wheel for some reason
― electricsound, Thursday, 3 June 2010 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm into the Ghost Society album, which is probably technically more dreampoppy than shoegazery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtFsSjxun20
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 June 2010 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link
^ - boy these sort of bands have looked and dressed the same for 20 years, no style never going out of style.
― bendy, Thursday, 3 June 2010 00:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Thursday, 3 June 2010 12:41 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 June 2010 12:48 (fourteen years ago) link
bullshit really
― disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Thursday, 3 June 2010 12:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Girl bass player never going out of style either apparently.
― I guess for copraphiles this is gonna be awesome (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 3 June 2010 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
not so sure about this second serena maneesh record (and never got into the first one).
― akm, Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
the first one was pretty weak imo - there's no 'drain cosmetics' on this record but i think it's better overall
― Help Im minger (electricsound), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― the groin transfer (electricsound), Monday, 20 September 2010 10:05 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 20 September 2010 10:37 (fourteen years ago) link
That problem is, that approach is how you end up with bands like Air Formation.
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Monday, 20 September 2010 14:10 (fourteen years ago) link
johnny fever you completely baffle me sometimes
― cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 14:12 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Tooth Far I (csa), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 06:22 (fourteen years ago) link
New High Violets record is pretty good. Working with Schnauss on that remix album seems to have helped.
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 06:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Estonia seems to keep putting out a new clutch of good 'gaze types -- thus these folks:
http://www.myspace.com/imandralake
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 06:26 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 06:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I like that link, Ned!
― Tooth Far I (csa), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 06:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Ooh I agree thats quite pretty stuff. I like that theyre singing in Estonian too, it adds to that Liz Fraserish obscurity :)
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 06:43 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 22:45 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3xATi5s9-A
http://www.vimeo.com/15648757
― billstevejim, Saturday, 11 December 2010 05:27 (thirteen years ago) link
The vimeo link is from Merchandise which is the better of those 2 songs..
here it is again: http://vimeo.com/15648757
― billstevejim, Saturday, 11 December 2010 05:30 (thirteen years ago) link
That's a band I would've ignored by name, but thanks for posting a video. I rather like it!
― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 11 December 2010 05:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah the name is weak, but what can ya do...
― billstevejim, Saturday, 11 December 2010 05:31 (thirteen years ago) link
xp I dig the Crash City Saints album a lot!
― billstevejim, Saturday, 11 December 2010 05:38 (thirteen years ago) link
looking fwd to the ringo ds album a lot even if they are just another jamc ripoff
― midiverb II program 49 (electricsound), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― karajan camping (electricsound), Thursday, 13 January 2011 08:52 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Thursday, 13 January 2011 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
had a listen to their EP on emusic, sounds nice
― karajan camping (electricsound), Thursday, 13 January 2011 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Friday, 14 January 2011 05:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Hmm, like the cover.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 January 2011 05:14 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Friday, 14 January 2011 05:16 (thirteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett
Thats how they get ya
― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Friday, 14 January 2011 05:18 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i'm not a fan of the name change i must say xpost
― ‰(.*?)‰ (electricsound), Friday, 14 January 2011 05:18 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NseeOkYBnao&feature=related
I hear some Lilys leaning qualities in most of their material
― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Monday, 24 January 2011 06:24 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― down in the eustachian tube at midnight (electricsound), Thursday, 10 February 2011 00:13 (thirteen years ago) link
so yeah there's a ringo deathstarr album now and it's quite something
― miss pansy twist (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 02:36 (thirteen years ago) link