can someone show me a NEW shoegaze band

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Hot damn, I've just been listening to Chapterhouse's Pearl, and it still seems almost as lovely as when I first heard it back in '91. S'gotta be the version with Rachel Slowdive's backing vox, though. Mmm. What a babe. Hey, has anybody got a scan of that NME poster of her dressed as Rambo?

― Palomino (Palomino), Monday, 15 December 2003 20:42 (twenty years ago) link

clairecords are planning to reissue Malory's debut in the new year

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 21:02 (twenty years ago) link

Does any remember Autohaze? Mostly released through Summershine out of Australia. More neo-rock/folk but blow me away everytime I hear Hey!

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:06 (twenty years ago) link

i remember them very well. released three great-to-fantastic singles and a lovely mini-album before drowning in a pit of dull Neil Youngisms.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:09 (twenty years ago) link

their debut single (along with much released on Summershine) is one of melbourne's proudest moments

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:10 (twenty years ago) link

Thank you. They are one of my favorite bands EVER.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:36 (twenty years ago) link

interesting! are you familiar with the summershine catalogue in its entirety? i was in the right place at the right time and have everything jason released.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:38 (twenty years ago) link

I always wanted to be more interested with the label. The few I heard I cannot really pull back into memory but I would always love to get re-aquainted. I really was a Autohaze freak. What else do you have to offer Mr. Surface?

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:44 (twenty years ago) link

if we're talking about australian stuff specifically, the Afterglow "fall behind" 7" is a corker (and the only good thing they ever did). all the Jupiter stuff is great (and all compiled on the "Arum" CD). anything by the Earthmen that summershine released is pretty good stuff too, although that veers into standard indierock in the later stuff.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:48 (twenty years ago) link

I'll find em.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:54 (twenty years ago) link

Someone has to say: nugaze.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:55 (twenty years ago) link

also the Truck Train Tractor 45 is the second best record released by an Adelaide band (the best being "More Than Happy" by the Mandelbrot Set, which is without doubt the best dreampop record Australia ever produced)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:55 (twenty years ago) link

Nu-gaze. Im workin on it.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 05:07 (twenty years ago) link

three months pass...

try hearing our music.and feel free to let us know....wee sound!
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tnx!

― jose m lozano II, Monday, 12 April 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago) link

Appleseed Cast

― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:40 (twenty years ago) link

I agree with whoever said "fucking clairecords people"!

Clairecords is the biggest shoegaze label out there at the moment, or for the past 5 years for that matter. They also run Tonevendor, the biggest mailorder for the related genres. Just look at some of the bands they've released.

Monster Movie (ex-slowdive)
Astrobrite (loveliescrushing)
Highspire
Malory
Airiel
The Ecstasy of St. Theresa
Paik
Stella Luna
Electro Group
Con Dolore
Mahogony
Pia Fraus
Sciflyer
Hartfield,
Air Formation
etc.

You want bands not on Claire?

Ulrich Schnauss
M83
the Meeting Places
Experimental Aircraft
Skywave
the Emerald Down
Landing
Whirlaway
Alcian Blue
Bethany Curve
Voyager 1

That's just about everyone you need to know that's been doing good shoegaze type stuff over the past 5 years.

― Valerie Kessig, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:17 (twenty years ago) link

Appreciated, Valerie...but just about all those bands were mentioned one way or another already. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 13:25 (twenty years ago) link

I was pretty pumped about checking out all the Claire Records bands, but god, most of them turned out to be dull. In the end, Mahogany is about the only one of the bunch I find truly memorable (oh, maybe Paik or Malory). And so, I'm not at all expecting to be let down by the next Mahogany album when it finally comes out after about a two year delay.

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:36 (twenty years ago) link

Skywave deserve to get mentioned again & again. mix bits of J&MC and live MBV and Ride and Motorhead and actually give them melodies and off you go.

they have some samples here which i cannot understate how much they should be listened to.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:05 (twenty years ago) link

Skywave is a good band. They're the real heirs to the Psychocandy throne, not BRMC.

I really like Ulrich Schnauss. Electro IDM-ish shoegaze.

Highspire's currently my favorite out of the bunch. Their new cd is really great. I find myself humming some of their hooks a lot.

I find Bethany Curve and Voyager 1 a bit to inaccessible for my tastes. Good music to go to sleep to though.

― Valerie Kessig, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago) link

new NYC band Psychic Ills aren't far off...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago) link

Please don't call Coldplay shoegazer. They're not. They don't have the wall of fuzzy sound, the vocals buried way underneath, and almost more importantly, you don't have to struggle to understand the lyrics. I have nothing against Coldplay, but please...

I think shoegaze is a pretty boring concept nowadays (I went to this gig a few years ago where they gave out this compilation CD of lots of new shoegazer bands and they all sucked) but I did like the last Voyager One album "Monster Zero".

― bimble (bimble), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago) link

Voyager One is actually one of the more 'eh okay' bands to my ears, but I haven't heard the album in a while.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:06 (twenty years ago) link

Fennesz

― mas, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:23 (twenty years ago) link

There's a decent shoegaze band from Montreal called "Marlowe".

― daavid (daavid), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:49 (twenty years ago) link

Curt: i think it's fair to say that Mahogany, Malory and Paik are the top of the Claire heap... but i like their "sound" so much that i end up enjoying everything they put out anyway.

For Against are SO underrated..

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:52 (twenty years ago) link

ESOJ OTM on that last point.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 22:58 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...

it seems to me the best new shoegaze band out there right now is "the Rep". It's one thing to copy old, superior shoegaze bands and come close yet inevitably fail, but it's another to make shoegaze sound new again. I really think "the Rep" does that. Their album isnt available until July 15th, so I havent heard all of it, but what i've gotten from file sharing is awesome! The best place to hear them is probably www.purevolume.com/therep. Keep in touch y'all!

― eduardo menendez, Friday, 25 June 2004 14:44 (twenty years ago) link

it seems to ME that youre somehow involved with that band...

thats what i think.

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 25 June 2004 17:59 (twenty years ago) link

ENFENETEE

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago) link

My new favorite band is "Street Team".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, they are great! They're still a big secret and I don't know why, but they're about to blow up! I love their website too!!

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:07 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, clairecords stuff is kind of hit and miss. the Con Dolore is good, the first Isobella record i like a whole lot (avoid the second one), and the Secret Shine reissue is obviously super.

Check out words-on-music.com all the stuff they put out is solid. Should aren't exactly new but both of their albums are super great (not exactly shoegaze but close enough). Meeting Places are good too. Avoid Motion Picture.

― brontosaur, Friday, 25 June 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago) link

DONT HATE THE PLAYA...
HATE THE GAME!!!

― sexxxyChances, Friday, 25 June 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago) link

dragon city: http://www.plainparade.org/dragon_city/

they're nice kids.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 25 June 2004 20:32 (twenty years ago) link

sexxxxxyPRANCESDANCESCHANCES has become one of my favorite posters!

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 25 June 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago) link

I second the Monster Movie recommendation. While lacking the noisy wall of sound most of the time (which is kind of a prerequisite to shoegaze imo), the torrent does occasionally show up in force. Rhythmically, their music retains a strong shoegaze vibe. Like Mira or Con Dolore, the music isn't quite shoegaze but it packs a lot of the same appeal.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:06 (twenty years ago) link

My new all-time favorite new-shoegaze album: The Great Depression - Unconscious Pilot on Fire Records. Midwest band that reminds me of most of vintage Telescopes. Nice balance of drifty atmospherics and tighter songs. Jim and Ned, you should check it out if you haven't already.

― Curt (cgould), Saturday, 26 June 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago) link

you're only 16, you don't have a rep yet!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 26 June 2004 17:24 (twenty years ago) link

clair records are nice people and their mail order is great but most of their releases do fall on the dull side of the fence. highspire is actually on the dreadful side. mahogany, pia fraus, malory-that's about it. american kids don't really do shoegazing all that well, mahogany is surely more inspired by 4ad/factory than chapterhouse. the monster movie debut ep was terrible, i heard he whispers on the album though, is that true? because he can't sing.

― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 26 June 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago) link

highspire is actually on the dreadful side.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 26 June 2004 19:58 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

I rather like Highspire and Monster Movie. I rate the Highspire disc as one of the best shoegazing cds this year. New Monster Movie disc is coming out soon as well and should be good.

Watch out for the new Air Formation disc. That should be good. Great band.

― solettio, Friday, 13 August 2004 13:06 (twenty years ago) link

I was wondering what happened to Air Formation -- I thought the earlier effort was good, not great.

Highspire, them I've not heard of. Hmm...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:25 (twenty years ago) link

i was kinda let down by the last monster movie record.... considering the lineage, i was hoping for better.

i love quotes like, "american kids don't really do shoegazing all that well"... [insert cynical derision here.]
m.

― msp, Friday, 13 August 2004 13:49 (twenty years ago) link

Has anyone mentioned the new Dykehouse on here, thats got a pretty shoegazey feel.

It made me dig out Sunkissed by Guitar the other day, I don't seem to like it anymore.

I think if you're gonna do Shoegazery kind of stuff I reckon you have to be really analogue (maybe a bit lofi) with it, digital shoegaze sounds too processed to my ears and lacks that other worldly sound.

― TomB (TomB), Friday, 13 August 2004 14:09 (twenty years ago) link

I don't know if that made much sense, I'm trying to say

Digital/Electro Shoegaze = 3d Computer generated other worldly landscapes a la Primus artwork or something.

The MBV sound = A really chunky abstract Van Gogh.

― TomB (TomB), Friday, 13 August 2004 14:13 (twenty years ago) link

there's a new Coastal album and a reissue of the first For Against album just out. very very excited about both.

― purple patch (electricsound), Saturday, 14 August 2004 03:04 (twenty years ago) link

Reviewed both for the AMG!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 14 August 2004 03:05 (twenty years ago) link

sweeet

― purple patch (electricsound), Saturday, 14 August 2004 03:27 (twenty years ago) link

i hope that words on music reish some of the other for against stuff, especially "december"..

― purple patch (electricsound), Saturday, 14 August 2004 03:27 (twenty years ago) link

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