*2010
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 25 March 2012 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
not that jaw dropping. pretty lethargic.
― keythhtyek, Sunday, 25 March 2012 06:12 (twelve years ago) link
I hate you.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 25 March 2012 06:59 (twelve years ago) link
ha. are they american? american shoegaze bands take themselves so seriously. i'd bet they were from new york.
― keythhtyek, Sunday, 25 March 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
Denmark.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 25 March 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
ah, they're po-faced too under byen, efterklang.
― keythhtyek, Sunday, 25 March 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
Keyboardist has the Gillian Gilbert down cold. I like it.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Sunday, 25 March 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
Been playing this a lot recently, v lovely:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWU37Hr6_Uc
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Saturday, 7 April 2012 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
http://heavensgate.bandcamp.com/
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 7 April 2012 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
^ 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.
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 7 April 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
Sweet Bulbs. They used to be Sweet Bulbs
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 7 April 2012 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
i dug sweet bulbs, sounds like good stuff
― kate axford likes this (electricsound), Saturday, 7 April 2012 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― etc, Saturday, 7 April 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― scumulator (electricsound), Saturday, 7 April 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― etc, Saturday, 7 April 2012 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Bill E, Sunday, 8 April 2012 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― etc, Sunday, 8 April 2012 08:44 (twelve years ago) link
ah there you go - quite dig coasting too, though their album is a touch more lo-fi than really works for them
― scumulator (electricsound), Sunday, 8 April 2012 08:45 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― keythhtyek, Sunday, 8 April 2012 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
Is/Is is a new shoegazey band from Mpls...the song Death Treat is great
http://is-is.bandcamp.com/track/death-treat
― Mississippi Butt Hurt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pSqj-xWJnM
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 6 July 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Evan, Thursday, 20 September 2012 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
they turned into a jangly powerpop band instead
― upset and upsetting (electricsound), Thursday, 20 September 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
In a good way or bad? Also Freudian Slips is a bit of a blatant Boo Radleys rip.
― Evan, Thursday, 20 September 2012 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Evan, Thursday, 20 September 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
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
― upset and upsetting (electricsound), Friday, 21 September 2012 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
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
― 50 miles of lmao room (unregistered), Friday, 21 September 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9ozazHKXLg
― 50 miles of lmao room (unregistered), Friday, 21 September 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
Very cool! I like it, thanks!
― Evan, Friday, 21 September 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Italo Night at Some Gay Club (Mount Cleaners), Friday, 21 September 2012 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
Have we mentioned Whirr yet?
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Saturday, 22 September 2012 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
i thought the whirr album was pretty generic, but there was potential there
― upset and upsetting (electricsound), Saturday, 22 September 2012 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
Hammock are new to me but lord this is doing it for me right about now:
http://hammockmusic.com/departure-songs
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
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
― ‽ Interrobang You're Dead ‽ (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
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"
― van smack, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
this one: http://www.discogs.com/Various-Never-Lose-That-Feeling-Volume-2/release/812718
― van smack, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
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
― ‽ Interrobang You're Dead ‽ (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
just wanted to say this Hammock album is incredible
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Friday, 26 October 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
Knew you would love it.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 October 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
"(Let's Kiss) While the Stars are All Falling Down" has been on repeat for a while now.
― ‽ Interrobang You're Dead ‽ (Sanpaku), Friday, 26 October 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
haha that's exactly the song that was playing which prompted me to post to this thread
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Friday, 26 October 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
Wish the timelapse went on longer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w9EiRIXtE8
― ‽ Interrobang You're Dead ‽ (Sanpaku), Friday, 26 October 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
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/
― U.S. State Department, Office of Rare Psych (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 November 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
The headline is correct. For better or worse.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 April 2013 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
would the besnard lakes fall into this category?
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 12 April 2013 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
Need emphasis:
"We are not rock," shouted back frontman Blixa Bargeld. "We are shoegaze; look at your fucking shoes!"
― Me So Hormetic (Sanpaku), Friday, 12 April 2013 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
that article was pretty bad in a couple of ways
― wee waa nee (electricsound), Friday, 12 April 2013 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
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
― wee waa nee (electricsound), Friday, 12 April 2013 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
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), Friday, 19 April 2013 02:22 (eleven years ago) link