can someone show me a NEW shoegaze band

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.

swanlike (loosies 2020-2023)

It's up on spotify and youtube

I love TAGABOW. I didn't get into "s" quite as much as Dextiny XL, but I agree completely that they're doing more interesting stuff w/ shoegaze than most.

I am a major sucker for heavy distortion, warped sounds and tons o' fuzz.

You know Blue Smiley's main songwriter passed away several years ago now, yeah?

"what's the deal with Philly?"

best indie rock scene in America for a decade now, probably? i assume it's because everywhere nearby got too expensive and artists ended up there. (idk, i live 3,000 miles away.)

Mad not to make the album buyable.

Philly is pretty good for independent music and always has been, ime as someone both from here and as someone who left for 15 years only to return. The punk/hc and indie-rock scene of the mid to late 90s was incredible, and it's kept up since then tbh.

xpost alpine static, yeah it's a damn shame. Spotify algorithm fired Blue Smiley across my bow a few months before the remaining members put out their previously unreleased material in the fall of '23 and I was utterly crestfallen to hear that the brains behind the operation had passed away. Their music sounds like it comes from a damaged soul, but it has a particularly uplifting quality that I feel can only come from such a source.

The new album by Orcas (Rafael Anton Irisarri + Benoît Pioulard) came out this week and will make your ears bleed technicolor

https://orcasmorr.bandcamp.com/album/how-to-color-a-thousand-mistakes

Lorelle Meets The Obsolete in Tijuana last night. (my short review: fuck yeah!)

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq5C6g9L2-c

awesome

Think I talked about Pink Breath of Heaven earlier in the thread — easily my new favorite SF band and I would have seen them last night again if it wasn’t for finally getting a chance to see Cold Gawd at last. Anyway: new Pink Breath single is out:

https://pinkbreathofheaven.bandcamp.com/track/the-wind-is-calling

this popped up on boomkat email this week, probably fits here musically but someone will know more about them than i do

Belong:
https://boomkat.com/products/realistic-ix

(i only clicked through because i liked the cover)

alternatively i could scroll back like a page...

The Belong album is so MBV drenched, it’s crazy.

https://www.stereogum.com/2245469/tiktok-has-made-shoegaze-bigger-than-ever/columns/sounding-board/

are we talking about this anywhere else?

― 龜, wednesday 20 december 2023 10:38 (seven months ago)

Wisp (still only 19 years old) played at the Pukkelpop festival in Belgium yesterday and reviews are very positive.

In case you didn't click that, here's a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foTFjWd21e0

Full Cold Gawd set from July

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTu5UTnBYZk

Yup, they're something live, caught them a month back here doing an opening set as mentioned upthread a bit and it killed.

Is there a good Shoegaze thread?

Joe Dilworth (amazing drummer and photographer*) is releasing a book of his photographs from 1987-1994 from London including many, many acts that were performing in the scene before shoegaze and shoegaze-adjacent was retroactively applied to it. Many appeared in Melody Maker.

*Joe was the original drummer of Stereolab, Cavern Of Anti-Matter, Th' Faith Healers & Add N to (X). His photographs appeared on hundreds of albums, most notably for this thread: the Isn't Anything front and back covers.

https://bildbandberlin.com/collections/all-books/products/joe-dilworth-everything-all-at-once-forever
hardback, limited to 600

Hmm! Very tempted.