Venera 4 from France
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knHC1yUWH60
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 12 January 2015 05:46 (nine years ago) link
Stargazer Lilies sound pretty good. Didn't realise they were a followup after Soundpool.
Still hoping to hear a dreampop band with ambitious symphonic structures.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 17 January 2015 19:17 (nine years ago) link
really enjoying the pinkshinyultrablast album. not a shred of anything new or original really but it does sound very lovely
― don't ask me why i posted this (electricsound), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 22:26 (nine years ago) link
Me too on pinkshinyultrablast. Also maimaiscripting. These two could tour as a lexical double-bill...
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 00:36 (nine years ago) link
i cant really find a thread where ppl talked about whirr except this one so excuse the derail
being contacted about booking whirr - not sure what all was up with that whole shitstorm except that they made fun of a dude for having the last name "lemmon" and called people pussies a lot. was there a lot of homophobia or sexism going down? should i avoid these ppl?
― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
i cant look at tumblr at work which is apparently where all this shit is being archived, curated and commented on, so
one interview deep and they sound like massively tedious people at the absolute least so avoid away
― don't ask me why i posted this (electricsound), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
yeah p sure im gonna pass
― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Thursday, 26 March 2015 03:18 (nine years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/vaadat-charigim/ein-li-makom-1
new Vaadat Charigim. pretty awesome.
― nostormo, Thursday, 26 March 2015 17:20 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udVSVWOtAVE
they've got a new album out next month (this is the lead single).
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 26 March 2015 18:39 (nine years ago) link
new and very good Vaadat Charigim:
https://soundcloud.com/vaadat-charigim/hashiamum-shokea/s-lx2oE
― nostormo, Thursday, 16 April 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
I see Venera 4 was mentioned a little bit upthread, but this album is amaze!
http://venera4band.bandcamp.com/album/eid-lon
If you need me, I'll be listening to this and nothing else for the next two weeks.
― Small Town Pizza Lawyer (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 06:50 (nine years ago) link
I am still working through my first listen of Eidôlon and HOLY SHIT this band is breaking my heart they're so good.
― Small Town Pizza Lawyer (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 06:55 (nine years ago) link
^ this is great
― nxd, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 09:47 (nine years ago) link
YAY! Love Venera 4. Love the new album. Love that folks are discovering them.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 09:58 (nine years ago) link
thanks, great recommendation.
― skip, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 17:16 (nine years ago) link
jeez, this is really shoegaze
― young ruffian - sick banter (imago), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 20:01 (nine years ago) link
kinda the precise intersection of schnauss the cure and a.m.p. who's with me here
― young ruffian - sick banter (imago), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 20:15 (nine years ago) link
I like Nothing, local (for me) Philly boys on local (for me) metal label Relapse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9UIdlXhrBQ
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 20:50 (nine years ago) link
^ thinking about seeing them live, could see their show either being great or real boring/samey... recommended?
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 20:52 (nine years ago) link
Unfortunately I have yet to see them live other than an acoustic in-store they did for Record Store Day this past weekend but it was nice enough for that sort of thing, though I wished it was a bit louder.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link
That ain't shoegaze. That's Hum worship.
― Small Town Pizza Lawyer (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 20:55 (nine years ago) link
You're not a Fever. You're barely a cold.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 20:57 (nine years ago) link
Don't shoot the messenger, friend.
― Small Town Pizza Lawyer (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link
AN INTERVIEW ABOUT NOTHING: PHILLY'S BEST SHOEGAZE BAND IS HERE TO KNOCK YOU OVER
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 21:01 (nine years ago) link
You and Noisey both can call them a shoegaze band, but that doesn't make them one. Unless you also think Hum were a shoegaze band, in which case the world has gone to hell.
― Small Town Pizza Lawyer (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link
It's not one or the other, though. It's got a good amount of both elements.
― Evan, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 21:14 (nine years ago) link
nothing have almost a pop punk feel at times. sometimes like a less sugary version of ringo deathstarr
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 21:15 (nine years ago) link
I just skimmed through the Nothing album on Spotify. They don't sound as much like Hum as I remember Hum sounding, but also there was really only one song that I'd feel in any way comfortable classifying as shoegazey. I mean, I guess in 25 years, the parameters of the genre have been pushed in all directions, but I still adhere to the original signifiers when I'm labeling something as shoegaze.
― Small Town Pizza Lawyer (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 21:17 (nine years ago) link
Venera 4 are really, really shoegaze
add SVIIB to the list of things they sound a bit like, maybe
― young ruffian - sick banter (imago), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 21:20 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, SVIIB were one of the first things I thought of re: Venera 4, but I think they're even more consciously rooted in 1990-92 era shoegaze at every angle.
― Small Town Pizza Lawyer (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link
"I still adhere to the original signifiers"
What exactly are they in your opinion? We can all agree on stolen MBV guitar tricks for sure.
― Evan, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 21:45 (nine years ago) link
Heavily affected guitars, sleepy and/or angelic voices, super-compressed drums (not "live" sounding at all), equal parts washes of distortion and very clean crystalline sounds.
Too much of nu-gaze focuses on the noisy and forgets the beautiful.
― Small Town Pizza Lawyer (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 21:50 (nine years ago) link
Agreed.
"Yeah but what if I play these basic Bob Dylan folk progressions with a ton a reverb... that makes it shoegaze, right?"
― Evan, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 22:02 (nine years ago) link
If you told me this Venera 4 record was 25 years old I would have believed you.
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 26 April 2015 21:48 (nine years ago) link
touched on upthread last august, the debut album by wildhoney dropped, it's very pleasanthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CexoHoJGmv4
― nxd, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 13:04 (nine years ago) link
That's good stuff.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 15:07 (nine years ago) link
OMG to 11
https://youtu.be/XH96I8k5KpA
― irl sweatpants (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 23:51 (nine years ago) link
uh will this work?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=10&v=XH96I8k5KpA
― irl sweatpants (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 23:52 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH96I8k5KpA
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 23:55 (nine years ago) link
Venera 4 is clearly godhead among contemporary shoegaze.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 23:56 (nine years ago) link
Really like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ_wlKIzsU0
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 00:05 (nine years ago) link
man the spectres record is really something else. i guess they're way too pigfuckey to be considered a pure shoegaze band, but i really dig the rough sound these guys are trying to explore. amrep meets creation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF2dXPGoRYE
― cock chirea, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 01:57 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BXvRskD6gg
― cock chirea, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 02:10 (nine years ago) link
https://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-northern-meadow
one of the year's metal-shoegaze-(industrial, kind of in a classic british postrock mode really) crossover records
― j., Wednesday, 29 April 2015 03:20 (nine years ago) link
Sorry, but unless it's strictly shoegaze gleamed only from the direct influence of Kevin Shields and completely devoid of any other influences, it doesn't belong in this thread. Take that shit somewhere else.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 09:23 (nine years ago) link
Wrong
― skip, Thursday, 30 April 2015 16:30 (nine years ago) link
NYCN is just grouchy because I said some unkind things about Nothing.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 30 April 2015 16:38 (nine years ago) link
I really like the Crisis Arm album from last year:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs5VDPiS3kQ
― austinato (Austin), Thursday, 30 April 2015 20:00 (nine years ago) link
don't forget: looking at your shoes
― gr8080, Friday, 1 May 2015 11:14 (nine years ago) link