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
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 3 May 2015 12:48 (nine years ago) link
Damn, a few of those Autumns EPs are impossible to find. Maybe on youtube though.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 3 May 2015 12:58 (nine years ago) link
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.
― wishy washy hippy variety hour (Hunt3r), Thursday, 14 May 2015 16:30 (nine years ago) link
New She's So Rad album Tango is a pretty interesting shoegaze meets electro/boogie record; shades of Chapterhouse's Blood Music or some of the lost gen stuff.
― etc, Friday, 15 May 2015 16:01 (nine years ago) link
Just this past month I've been really getting into some shoegaze (Venera 4) and shoegaze-adjacent (Marriages, Novella) bands.
― DJP, Friday, 15 May 2015 17:51 (nine years ago) link
I like that Marriages album. I never remember to listen to it, though.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 15 May 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link
Marriages album is really good but it's not quite as good as Emma Ruth Rundle's solo album from last year. Her voice doesn't ever remind me of Dolores O'Riordan on that, for one.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 15 May 2015 21:07 (nine years ago) link
This is the singer from (ugh) Perfect Pussy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=189&v=Eg5xSDhbeqE
I like it. Kind of reminds me of the first Third Eye Foundation album. The blastbeat is... odd.
― Luc Skyferrari (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 08:40 (nine years ago) link
Hmmm maybe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg5xSDhbeqE
the new Flyying Colours EP is even better than the first one: http://www.shelflife.com/catalogue/LIFE126.html
― skip, Saturday, 4 July 2015 16:30 (nine years ago) link
No Joy's new album More Faithful is excellent.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 4 July 2015 17:31 (nine years ago) link