can someone show me a NEW shoegaze band

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fucking Clairecords people!!!!

sort yourselves out

I think most bands these days that are labelled "shoegazer" would be better suited to "slowcore" or "dream-pop" labels.

Labelling is wrong.

Coldplay have certainly been influenced by Catherine Wheel, My Bloody Valentine and other bands like that, but that's not to say they're a shoegazer band.

I guess this is a semantical debate. Shoegazer, to me, isn't about an "atmospheric aesthetic", it's much more specific than that.

I declare 2004 the year of the Shoegaze. I'm chinese for sake of argument. With all the discussion around here about it in the last month or so I feel Congress will agree.

A firecracker parade will follow.

this thread is good now

www.theearlies.com

I will now check out melodic.com

I would click the "Free Sample Issue" button on the side and see what happens.

This zine is run by Ryan Anderson who used to play with Fuxa back in the old Michigan space rock days. Each issue comes with a free cd comp that is mostly showgaze and space rock. If you are interested in that sound they are very worth picking up. Ryan keeps the prices dirt cheap, they cost $7.20 a piece and that covers the shipping.

If you do decide to pick up back issues I would recommend that you start with issue three and work your way forward. The first couple issues were a bit patchy but they got better with every following issue.

As far as bands go, I would recommend looking into Tristeza/The Album Leaf, Cerberus Shoal, Landing, Hinterland, and Tex La Homa. ESOJ's(the surface noise) and Ned's picks are both completely otm and I would have recommended them myself if they had not beaten me to the punch.

Readymade isn't exactly new. They were sending out annoying promo stuff 6/7 years ago.

The Meeting Places as well...reasonable enough rotegaze.

M83, now lemme tell ya, I guess I enjoyed the album the one time I heard it, but that was six months ago and I haven't felt any need to listen again.

Everyone should hear the new For Against.

Hmm! Very tempted.

Tanukichan latest - Circles is ok shoegaze but doesn’t wow me

here's a really good one i discovered via Bandcamp's year-end roundup

https://mo-dotti.bandcamp.com/album/opaque

https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/mo-dotti-opaque-review

Los Angeles shoegaze quartet Mo Dotti take their name from Italian photographer and communist revolutionary Tina Modotti, whose life as an artist began when she moved to California and took up acting in the early 20th century. Her most famous work, however, was produced while living in Mexico, capturing hazy, somewhat anonymized images of working class people. On their debut LP, opaque, band’s songwriting often mirrors the composition of Modotti’s photography, contrasting crisp moments of jangle-pop clarity against billowing clouds of distortion. Rather than zero in on a particular strain of shoegazing, Mo Dotti survey the genre’s evolution and fragmentation over time, fusing ideas and textures to make well-trodden territory feel fresh once more.

The band’s first two EP releases, combined to form Blurring​/​Guided Imagery in 2023, embraced those exploratory instincts to the fullest, never quite settling into a specific sound. They could do a convincing Cocteau Twins impression on the sparkling “Gravity Well,” go full Sarah Records on a washed-out 6ths cover, or even dial back the distortion to emphasize the wonky post-punk riffage of “Hurting Slowly.” On opaque, they’ve managed to synthesize these influences into a unique, restless style that makes each section of their songs feel like an unexpected twist.

The verses on lead single “Lucky Boy” revisit the strummy, wafer-thin psychedelia that My Bloody Valentine toyed with on their Glider EP, making an ideal counterpoint to meatier instrumental sections. When frontwoman Gina Negrini isn’t emulating Bilinda Butcher’s detached, sing-song delivery on the mic, she and guitarist Guy Valdez are stomping all over the pedalboard, rattling off twangy 4AD-core licks and wriggling peals of pure noise. Mo Dotti often conclude opaque’s songs with an invitation for each member to floor the gas pedal, and these crescendos make for many of the record’s best moments. The back half of “Wasted Delay” embarks on a proggy adventure, launching epic Cure-esque guitar solos across a crepuscular chord progression. “Pale Blue Afternoon” even invites comparisons to Dinosaur Jr., with its sputtering wails of feedback. Each small segment of music is constructed with utmost care: “I get pretty obsessed over just a 10-second part,” Valdez told My Little Underground in 2022. “I’ll figure out the easiest way to play it, and just keep listening to it over and over again.”

They've got a few more things mixed in, a little midwest emo at points, but some really great shoegaze bits (check out "Game") on Wishy's Triple Seven:

https://wishy.bandcamp.com/album/triple-seven

Feel like this might be something Ivy would dig.

tried scanning the entire thread (must've missed something) but didn't see a mention of ML Buch. Fleshy (fantastic ep) came out during 2017... i hadn't realized that it's already seven (almost 8) years old. they *have* to have been discussed here, right? i mean, Fleshy is ridiculously good. i know y'all have already listened to it.

https://mlbuch.bandcamp.com/album/fleshy

have always loved this forum (ever since 2002) ... everybody is so welcoming and responsive. what a great place to talk about music! err, yeah

i mean, maybe you didn't get much response because ML Buch isn't really all that shoegaze? crazy thought, i know.

that was why I didn't respond here.

I love Buch’s most recent album, “Suntub.” Fans of shoegaze and dream pop would probably dig it. It has some of the most unique guitar tones I’ve heard in recent years, lovely, mysterious songs. I’m not familiar with Buch’s earlier work, so I should dive deeper.

https://sunshyily.bandcamp.com/album/i-dont-care-what-comes-next

some pretty good mbv imitations on this sunshy album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS7uhb5qZmI

Loving the preview tracks for the new Cloakroom.

https://cloakroom.bandcamp.com/album/last-leg-of-the-human-table

^^^ This latest preview song "Story of the Egg" is a really nice krautrock/shoegaze tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXTO-1ui0Ug

oh nice didn't know they were prepping a new one

My favorite new local band in the last couple of years, Pink Breath Of Heaven, release their debut album in May:

https://pinkbreathofheaven.bandcamp.com/album/colors-make-a-sound

cloakroom album is out now. i think it's a bit of a step down from the last one, went too far in the pop direction imo. the back half is solid though, particularly "clover looper"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uShbKDUbUKw

this band from mexico city has a kind of early verve/slowdive sound.

https://thelsdays1.bandcamp.com/

check out "clouds"

Have been yakking about Pink Breath Of Heaven for a while now, am listening to an advance of their debut album out Friday, and it kills:

https://pinkbreathofheaven.bandcamp.com/album/colors-make-a-sound

Something I hadn't fully appreciated is that one of the two lead guitarists, along with lead singer/band center Liv Field, is Rex John Silverton, longtime collaborator with Tamaryn.

Apple Music just suggested that Pink Breath of Heaven album as a new release I should check out. I’ve got the volume down low as the whole family isn’t up yet on this Sunday morning, but it sounds pretty great.

Glad to hear it!

Meantime -- digging into the thread's past when they were in fact something of a new shoegaze band! -- Highspire have returned! Album out in July:

https://highspire.bandcamp.com/album/crushed

i dig stevie nicks-like shoegaze vox. erm at least to me thats the timbre of it?

I really like the PBoH album a lot. I feel like I can just monitor Little Cloud and find a psych or shoegaze goodie every few.

A fine way to approach things!

They've got a few more things mixed in, a little midwest emo at points, but some really great shoegaze bits (check out "Game") on Wishy's Triple Seven:

https://wishy.bandcamp.com/album/triple-seven

Feel like this might be something Ivy would dig.

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bumping to thank you for this rec, jvc, really scratches an itch for me.

no problem, glad someone else enjoyed it! i've come back to that one quite a few times, still love "Game" a lot.

ya loved the wishy album from last year and "game" was the best song. they can do any 90s alt sub-genre, not just shoegaze, it's fun to spot the syle.

the new Hotline TNT album is, sadly, not very good at all.

thx for wishy rec. just listened to 777 album. at first i was like, well i could damn them with faint praise-- but they are good at what they're doing. vc i think you're correct, they are pretty omni 90s, and wish is v strong. and like, the slight move over to almost weezer mode on spit at the end was enough enough for me to admit i quite like them at this early stage. it's not that i like weezer so much, it's like, "boy they can do a lot rather well." if they can do this live they'd be really fun. any idea how they are live?

the desperate plea of this thread title hits different now that every band with guitars and distortion is marketed as shoegaze

xpost Hunt3r, they are really fun live! Saw them play to about 100 people in a basement venue back in the winter and they can play. Lovely energy, very charming stage presence--one of their guitarists couldn't make the gig because they couldn't get off work for that leg of the tour, so one of their singer's childhood friends filled in. An unassuming bunch that just seemed excited to actually be on tour playing their music to people. They've got a real knack for writing saccharine indie pop/rock tunes. I'm not a huge devotee of the band or anything (only listened to 777 and Planet Popstar a couple times each) and they totally won me over.

true some things are shugazi

sorry that was xp to na

Our own John D recommended this elsewhere and: yes.

https://lysitheaband.bandcamp.com/album/hello-to-a-shadow-2

They’re not new, but not mentioned here yet — the Lebanese band Postcards. Their 4th album, and first I’ve heard, is good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz22Wn62H-M

kitten paws (it's fine; all the song titles are in swedish)

e.g.: https://kittenpaws.bandcamp.com/album/lilla-havet

I've been enjoying this new Just Mustard album, it's shoegaze-adjacent at the very least

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7HAwqQ99Eg

I went to see Drop Nineteens last night (obv not "new") and one of the openers was a band called Sweet 93. They were actually really good if a bit annoying onstage (I feel like guitar players in new bands move around too much), but the singer had a fantastic voice, particularly after one of the other opening bands (She's Green). Googled when I got home and went down a weird rabbit hole.

The singer's name is Chloe. Google AI summary then told me her name was Chloe Kohanski, from Nashville, who was also a winner on the Voice (which I have never watched). I looked at some photos of her and assumed this had to be some AI confusion; wiki for Chloe Kohanski mentions nothing about Sweet 93. Chloe Kohanski has an instagram with no mention of Sweet 93, but hasn't been updated in years. Sweet 93 instagram says nothing of the name Chloe Kohanski. Pictures of Kohanski from the Voice looked like an older woman with little resemblance to the person I saw last night who, admittedly, wore a parka hood her entire time on stage and most of the night when she was standing in front of me during the Drop 19's set and drunkenly carousing with her bandmates. AND YET, the more I dug, I realized that yes, in fact, this was the same person. She clearly won on the voice, moved to NYC, and started making lo-fi shoegaze music and 100% changed everything about her appearance and seems to have done what she can to dissasociate her current persona from her previous one.

Anyway, her one album that is out on streaming is good but not as good as what they played live; half of the set kind of sounded like the track The Pink Room from Twin Peaks/David Lynch/Badalementi's Thought Gang album, the other half was more shoegazey. Anyway, I thought they were pretty good.

Don't know anything about Sister Ray Davies, but they're laying down some heavy Slowdive vibes in the sample track here:

https://sisterraydavies.bandcamp.com/album/holy-island

Future Nostalgia, pay-what-you-want Norwegian shoegaze:
https://futurenostalgia.bandcamp.com/album/mellow

A year or more late I am finally listening to They are Gutting a Body of Water. I kinda like some of it.

I kinda like some of it.

bold

Shoegazey Pie

Destiny XL is the only one I really love by them for whatever reason. Not like the others are much different or necessarily weaker or anything though.

Caramanica just put the 2025 They Are Gutting a Body of Water album Lotto at 5th on his NY Times best of list today. He says it's "by far its most robust and challenging." I just listened to it for the first time yesterday while doing junk around the house, so yeah, no bold take from me yet. Oh well. Can I get a late pass?

One of my favorites of the year, as well. Leans a bit heavier into the Blue Smiley-type guitar sounds than previous releases imo, but great songwriting and some really lovely melodies throughout.

violence iii probably my favorite track

It made #25 on Pitchfork best rock album list too