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!
― svend, Friday, 23 November 2007 05:20 (sixteen years ago) link
everything they've put out since has been better than everything they put out up to that point
― electricsound, Friday, 23 November 2007 05:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I opened this thread to say Brother Kite. So.
― the higgs, Friday, 23 November 2007 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― no-nonsense, Friday, 4 January 2008 22:49 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 4 January 2008 22:55 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― keythkeyth, Saturday, 5 January 2008 02:51 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― Hunt3r, Sunday, 6 January 2008 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Good band, yes.
Anyway, another recent favorite: Autodrone
http://www.myspace.com/autodrone
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 6 January 2008 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link
slept on, i think. if they'd been around in the early 90s and were on slumberland they would be massive
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― electricsound, Sunday, 6 January 2008 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.myspace.com/thrushes
― Michael_Pemulis, Monday, 7 January 2008 01:19 (sixteen years ago) link
spc eco are quite good
― electricsound, Monday, 11 February 2008 07:49 (sixteen years ago) link
i didn't realise the singer was dean garcia's daughter
― electricsound, Monday, 11 February 2008 07:50 (sixteen years ago) link
khonnor will tickle you in a fenneszy fashion
― straight, Monday, 11 February 2008 12:54 (sixteen years ago) link
the new pia fraus has been produced by norman blake. that seems odd. out in may. secret shine album out in april.
― keythkeyth, Monday, 11 February 2008 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― electricsound, Monday, 11 February 2008 23:34 (sixteen years ago) link
my new thing: emogaze. you'll know what i mean in 2009.
― burt_stanton, Monday, 11 February 2008 23:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Just the world didn't need.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 February 2008 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― keythkeyth, Monday, 11 February 2008 23:44 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― electricsound, Monday, 11 February 2008 23:59 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― keythkeyth, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link
uhhhh, emogaze actually exists?
― burt_stanton, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 00:10 (sixteen years ago) link
APPLESEED CAST
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 00:11 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― electricsound, Friday, 14 March 2008 23:52 (sixteen years ago) link
brother kite are recording their new album now.
― keythkeyth, Saturday, 15 March 2008 00:34 (sixteen years ago) link
prolific
― electricsound, Saturday, 15 March 2008 00:42 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― electricsound, Monday, 28 April 2008 03:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Cloudland Canyon are pretty gazey sometimes
― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 28 April 2008 05:33 (sixteen years ago) link
A friend just recommended Sea Dweller as well as this blog in general:
http://shoegazeralive.blogspot.com
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 April 2008 05:34 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 28 April 2008 05:37 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― stephen, Monday, 28 April 2008 05:41 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― stephen, Monday, 28 April 2008 05:43 (sixteen years ago) link
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/
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 28 April 2008 05:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Basinski-shoegaze: Belong. So gorgeous!
― willem, Thursday, 1 May 2008 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link
The Charmparticles:
http://www.charmparticles.com/listen.php
-- righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Saturday, 10 June 2006 00:58 (1 year ago) Bookmark Link
<3 <3
― electricsound, Monday, 5 May 2008 04:36 (sixteen years ago) link
The Distant Relatives ^Badass album just came out. Abby Go Go ^ from Tuscaloosa, AL. Broken up now, have a new band or something. Good.
― roxymuzak, Monday, 5 May 2008 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
new pia fraus and daysleepers albums up on emusic
downloading now...
― electricsound, Saturday, 10 May 2008 02:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Belong OTM, Colorloss Record is a beautiful EP
― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 10 May 2008 02:43 (sixteen years ago) link
labelmates with the ace Anemones too
― electricsound, Saturday, 10 May 2008 02:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw a shoegaze band called Sennen a couple of years ago. Certainly as a live band they seemed appealing.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Saturday, 10 May 2008 10:58 (sixteen years ago) link
they sound like teenage fanclub now (if it's the same one)
― electricsound, Saturday, 10 May 2008 11:44 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― electricsound, Sunday, 11 May 2008 00:48 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― electricsound, Sunday, 11 May 2008 00:49 (sixteen years ago) link
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...
― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 11 May 2008 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
actually, the alcest is excellent. i thought i was gonna wind up finding it thin initially, but it's a total grower.
― Charlie Howard, Monday, 12 May 2008 14:11 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― electricsound, Saturday, 14 June 2008 05:21 (sixteen years ago) link
will check that out, mr. sound.
― csa, Sunday, 29 June 2008 07:05 (sixteen years ago) link
yay!
(it gets even better with repeated listenings)
― electricsound, Sunday, 29 June 2008 09:30 (sixteen years ago) link
pains of being pure at heart <3
sounds like dave conway era mbv. which as anyone knows is their best era.
― electricsound, Monday, 7 July 2008 01:04 (sixteen years ago) link
anyone listening to the Sunset records?
― matinee, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 22:24 (sixteen years ago) link
don't know em, got a link?
― electricsound, Thursday, 28 August 2008 07:08 (sixteen years ago) link