can someone show me a NEW shoegaze band

Me too on pinkshinyultrablast. Also maimaiscripting. These two could tour as a lexical double-bill...

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?

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

yeah p sure im gonna pass

https://soundcloud.com/vaadat-charigim/ein-li-makom-1

new Vaadat Charigim. pretty awesome.

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

they've got a new album out next month (this is the lead single).

new and very good Vaadat Charigim:

https://soundcloud.com/vaadat-charigim/hashiamum-shokea/s-lx2oE

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.

I am still working through my first listen of Eidôlon and HOLY SHIT this band is breaking my heart they're so good.

^ this is great

YAY! Love Venera 4. Love the new album. Love that folks are discovering them.

thanks, great recommendation.

jeez, this is really shoegaze

kinda the precise intersection of schnauss the cure and a.m.p. who's with me here

I like Nothing, local (for me) Philly boys on local (for me) metal label Relapse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9UIdlXhrBQ

^ thinking about seeing them live, could see their show either being great or real boring/samey... recommended?

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.

That ain't shoegaze. That's Hum worship.

You're not a Fever. You're barely a cold.

Don't shoot the messenger, friend.

AN INTERVIEW ABOUT NOTHING: PHILLY'S BEST SHOEGAZE BAND IS HERE TO KNOCK YOU OVER

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.

It's not one or the other, though. It's got a good amount of both elements.

nothing have almost a pop punk feel at times. sometimes like a less sugary version of ringo deathstarr

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.

Venera 4 are really, really shoegaze

add SVIIB to the list of things they sound a bit like, maybe

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.

"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.

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.

Too much of nu-gaze focuses on the noisy and forgets the beautiful.

Agreed.

"Yeah but what if I play these basic Bob Dylan folk progressions with a ton a reverb... that makes it shoegaze, right?"

If you told me this Venera 4 record was 25 years old I would have believed you.

touched on upthread last august, the debut album by wildhoney dropped, it's very pleasant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CexoHoJGmv4

That's good stuff.

OMG to 11

https://youtu.be/XH96I8k5KpA

uh will this work?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=10&v=XH96I8k5KpA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH96I8k5KpA

Venera 4 is clearly godhead among contemporary shoegaze.

Really like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ_wlKIzsU0

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BXvRskD6gg

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

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.

Wrong

NYCN is just grouchy because I said some unkind things about Nothing.

I really like the Crisis Arm album from last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs5VDPiS3kQ

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.

don't forget: looking at your shoes

Crisis Arm (weird name) sound really good. It's really difficult for a new shoegaze band that sounds so much like the old ones to stand out, there's just loads that do it good/competent so that a lot of them end up seeming redundant even though they are pretty accomplished.

Pyramids sounds great too. I thought that maybe the singer was Matthew Kelly from The Autumns for a few minutes but it isn't.

Didn't realise The Autumns had broken up, I really love their stuff, especially the first two albums. I suppose I still need a few EPs.

Damn, a few of those Autumns EPs are impossible to find. Maybe on youtube though.

ive listened to a ton of venera 4 at this point. you can't get more 1990 than this imo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PDUZB8pRvY

i do however keep hearing moment 3:47 of _this_ song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdmNC8ylrXI

which at least is the best one second of that song.