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
this is nice
http://halfstring.bandcamp.com/track/honeycut
― captain snus (electricsound), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 06:41 (eleven years ago) link
I've been sort of meaning to pick up the Half String reissue 2xLP thing on CT for awhile now. Do you have that?
― Evan, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
Of course. I had all the ipr stuff anyway but the extra tracks were cool
― captain snus (electricsound), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
Finally got around to listening to their new album after seeing them at Austin Psych Fest, and yeah - they fall into this. This is the most Slowdivey thing I've heard in years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXTVedMZTL0
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 1 June 2013 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
― Me So Hormetic (Sanpaku), Thursday, April 18, 2013 9:22 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is on spotify and is really good
― congratulations (n/a), Saturday, 15 June 2013 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
I picked up Ghost Blonde by them not long ago. Is the new one better?
― Evan, Saturday, 15 June 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
Wait To Pleasure is one of my favourite albums of the year so far... so, yes :D
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Saturday, 15 June 2013 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
New Exit Calm single. I love the Verve too, but sheesh...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExRI5AQ8xUE
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 13:15 (eleven years ago) link
Did the Besnard Lakes improve a bit or something? They always seemed kinda there.
Currently getting my attention is Eros and the Eschaton, about to release a debut album. Got some earlier tracks up on their Bandcamp site:
http://goldenhearts.bandcamp.com/album/songs
And more info here:
http://www.theunderbellyofthesun.org/Eros_and_the_Eschaton/aum_mani_padme_hum.html
https://www.facebook.com/erosandtheeschaton
Been listening to the album this morning -- nice take on the whole American homegrown 'gaze/couple approach, and some actually loud/twisted/violent moments with a few curve balls along the way. It's a good start rather than something truly remarkable, but it IS good.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
Ran across them in Austin and dug what they were doing. I think the new album is a keeper.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 1 August 2013 05:48 (eleven years ago) link
there was a p big jump in their songwriting from dark horse to roaring night imo
― take that, bitterman (electricsound), Thursday, 1 August 2013 06:35 (eleven years ago) link
Giving the new one a listen now, it does seem more intriguing. Maybe they just needed their woodshedding phase.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 August 2013 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
Lovesilkpalemilk might be a little too post-punk, but bits of the latest album/ep/whatever (on Paradigms) are like Garlands era Cocteau Twins in places.
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 10:39 (eleven years ago) link
a couple of new(ish) aussie ones i love
roku music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmbEG4_kY1E
flyying colours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G12Itbv0q8s
― this patch is evolving (electricsound), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 08:24 (ten years ago) link
actually i should have put this one for FC. love this so much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9wnpiiMUJs
― this patch is evolving (electricsound), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 08:26 (ten years ago) link
Second song is great!
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 11:12 (ten years ago) link
Seconded, nice track.
― skip, Monday, 10 March 2014 18:14 (ten years ago) link
they played flyying colours wavygravy on bbc radio6 last week.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03xpcr8
― koogs, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 15:42 (ten years ago) link
Deifnitely like them better than the other Flying Colors (the Mike Portnoy, Neal Morse pop-prog supergroup).
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btqggj8cWFU
^Wish there was an entire album that sounded like this.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
Yeah that could be their best song.
― Evan, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 20:37 (ten years ago) link
i think i like the Cheatahs album a very great deal
― doodle cock-up (electricsound), Saturday, 9 August 2014 05:39 (ten years ago) link
This one seems promising, though I've only listened a little. Jetman Jet Team. Definitely have the sound down, I just haven't had time to live with the songs.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn-3ejk2KiM
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 20:32 (ten years ago) link
Vaadat Charigim - terrific Israeli neo shoegaze!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 21:31 (ten years ago) link
Another vote for Cheetahs - 'the Swan' especially
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 23:06 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I've ended up liking the Cheatahs album a lot more than I thought I would. Also really liking the Flyying Colours, so thank for that rec, above.
I recently heard a great track from 2011 in a Songza playlist by The Golden Awesome who I'd never heard of. Facebook page shows some relatively recent live activity but no mention of new music. A quick sample of their album makes it sound promising though:
http://thegoldenawesomenz.bandcamp.com
― early rejecter, Monday, 18 August 2014 17:00 (ten years ago) link
I've really been enjoying the latest from Champaign's Withershins, Mt. Fuji in Blue. It's not exclusively shoegaze, there is some (eek!) post rock in here too, but some really great moments of fuzzed out bliss. The vocals and lyrics can be a bit of a stumbling block, more than once I wished a track was instrumental, but when they really lock in I'm finding this to be pretty compelling, musically anyway.
― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 14:04 (ten years ago) link
Yeah that's not shoegaze. I have this weird and probably unfair impulse to reject the shoegaze tag for anything with those shouty college town vocals in it. To me, it gives it away as ex-emo/hardcore or indie players (I'm betraying my age a bit here) who probably bought delay pedals after trying drugs or sexual intercourse. They know who MBV is, for example, but have really no idea why the band is so important.
I guess it's pretty unfair of me because some Estonian black metal/Detroit techno hybrid band could get tagged with shoegaze and I wouldn't bat an eyelash even if they growled Javascript syntax into a vocoder.
― fields of salmon, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 16:26 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I get exactly what you mean and it probably isn't shoegaze, but I wasn't sure what other thread to talk about the album in. It's definitely not metal and, despite the vocals, it doesn't fit in with the emo revival thing either.
― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
i'll second Vadaat Charigim, their album from last/this year (or whenever) is sneaky great
― alpine static, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 18:11 (ten years ago) link
uh, make that Vaadat, not Vadaat boy is my face red
this is a local band that seems very indebted to mbv
http://wildhoneysound.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2K5R3sb_NI
― ͡ᵒಠಠ ͜ʖ ͡ಠಠᵒ (am0n), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 22:26 (ten years ago) link
got a single of theirs the other day, it's not half bad
― the kingness of stranders (electricsound), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 22:47 (ten years ago) link
There's an emo revival? Is there a thread for that? I might lurk.
― fields of salmon, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 17:42 (ten years ago) link
rolling emo/pop/punk/bullshit/feelings about pizza or something like that. thread rules.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
the Vaadat Charigim album is so great.
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Monday, 15 September 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
the upcoming Lees of Memory album is pretty shoegazey. it's the dudes from Superdrag.
full stream here: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2014/09/an_interview_w_75.html
― alpine static, Monday, 15 September 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link