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
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.
― Savannah Smiles, Thursday, 28 August 2008 09:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Shugazi?
― Mark G, Thursday, 28 August 2008 12:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Is Monster Movie still a band?
They were still recording as of March, but no news since.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 28 August 2008 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Those last couple Sunset records were okay. After I was done listening to them I couldn't remember a note.
― jonathan - stl, Friday, 29 August 2008 02:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Blackstrap are really good. Not pure shoegaze, but there's definitely a heavy influence:
http://www.myspace.com/blackstrap001
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 29 August 2008 02:25 (sixteen years ago) link
this is incorrect. :)
― keythkeyth, Saturday, 30 August 2008 01:00 (sixteen years ago) link
ok to be fair it's pretty good,there's just no big pop hit like 'season of false starts'
― electricsound, Saturday, 30 August 2008 02:06 (sixteen years ago) link
autodrone are pretty good, remind me of scarling a bit, hope sandoval-esque singer
― Minister for Compression Issues (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2008 00:08 (fifteen years ago) link
^avoid their earlier EP though, like it was plague
― what is your beef with the mac? (electricsound), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 03:37 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― what is your beef with the mac? (electricsound), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 03:38 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― a pissed-off yuppie wandering around L.A. trying it (some dude), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, pretty noises never go out of style
― a pissed-off yuppie wandering around L.A. trying it (some dude), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Looking forward to the new A Sunny Day in Glasgow album.
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Trying to remember who I heard the other day that actually stood out amid the usual hoohah. I should take more notes.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 20:38 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 30 April 2009 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh god oh god oh god.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 30 April 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
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.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 April 2009 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
The Helio Sequence to me sounds like Modest Mouse gone alt-shoegaze. Not a good thing.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 30 April 2009 19:21 (fifteen years ago) link
the new songs on the brother kite website are dismal. fountains of wayne-ish power pop, yikes.
― keythkeythkeyth, Sunday, 10 May 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Vanessa Van Basten. The band. Italian. Endlessly better than the first and second wave of twiddlers.
― i, grey, Monday, 11 May 2009 01:31 (fifteen years ago) link
wow. Vanessa Van Basten. thanks for the suggestion. But too bad there's no hot frontwoman named Vanessa.
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Monday, 11 May 2009 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link
sad day for puppets <3 <3
― task force vs the brisbane punks (electricsound), Monday, 22 June 2009 10:03 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― task force vs the brisbane punks (electricsound), Monday, 22 June 2009 10:04 (fifteen years ago) link