https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgwFEKlhpJA
― MaresNest, Monday, 31 December 2018 14:36 (five years ago) link
That's pretty nice, liking his voice.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 4 January 2019 20:54 (five years ago) link
new split release from somesurpises and supercandy. somesurprises great as ever, supercandy i'd never heard before but sound really nice at first listen, they get v krautrocky as it goes on - http://open.spotify.com/album/5QK5mCG5HX2OP5HxFYyZyN
― JoeStork, Saturday, 9 March 2019 03:42 (five years ago) link
stoked to hear these, i liked that somesurprises a lot.
― Hunt3r, Saturday, 9 March 2019 17:11 (five years ago) link
Great Russian band: https://sharkstears.bandcamp.com/album/experience-of-the-charm
― Evan, Friday, 14 June 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link
And speaking of that (very excellent) band and others from Russia:
https://daily.bandcamp.com/2019/06/27/russian-shoegaze-bands-guide/
It was a real treat writing this!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 June 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link
Nice! How did you find out about them all?
― Evan, Thursday, 27 June 2019 19:59 (five years ago) link
Bandcamp music tags and a little research. Pinkshinyultrablast and Gnoomes I already knew about.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:58 (five years ago) link
Thanks, Wooden Whales caught my interest most, probably due to the unusual for this genre vocals.
Even though this is one of my absolute favorite genres I often find myself listening to clips and feeling almost like someone who doesn't like the genre: most of it sounds so similar!
Really behind on this stuff, haven't listened to much of it in years, not even that Miniatures album I was excited about upthread.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 29 June 2019 12:33 (five years ago) link
Anyone keep up with labels that specialize in it? I recall Rocket Girl was quite a fan favorite on the old shoegaze forum.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 29 June 2019 12:36 (five years ago) link
I've been meaning to post this up, in fact, I was sure I already had but ctrl-f says otherwise, kinda epic indie/gaze from the UK. I like the big, upful sounding chorus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aCqtbcMbsM
― MaresNest, Saturday, 29 June 2019 12:54 (five years ago) link
New single, sounds great http://somesurprises.bandcamp.com/track/high-rise
― JoeStork, Saturday, 13 July 2019 19:57 (five years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 July 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link
This the one?https://rocketgirl100.bandcamp.com/
― calstars, Saturday, 13 July 2019 20:58 (five years ago) link
Great comp, but no, it is this:
https://darla.com/products/various-artists-rocket-girl-20
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 14 July 2019 00:14 (five years ago) link
i don't understand in what this is, like, a label? or a flexi playlist? but i do enjoy that rocketgirl100 collection as i listen to it.
― Hunt3r, Friday, 26 July 2019 17:56 (five years ago) link
Er, no, it says right there:
70 page book with an artwork printOne 7”One flexi 7"One CDPlus all tracks on a download code
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 July 2019 18:27 (five years ago) link
https://daily.bandcamp.com/2019/09/26/somesurprises-somesurprises-interview/
Album is out and very good
― JoeStork, Thursday, 26 September 2019 20:50 (five years ago) link
ha i was gonna post that and forgot to do. yes, it's very good and enjoyable.
― Hunt3r, Friday, 27 September 2019 03:12 (five years ago) link
Miniatures - Jessamines is pretty good but the song that made me buy it ("What You Want") is definitely the best one.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 8 November 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link
All of Lorelle Meets The Obsolete's albums are $2 on Bandcamp until the end of the year. All are recommended but start from the recent ones (De Facto, Balance) and work backwards. (short history: LMTO are from Guadalajara, started off conventionally gazing at shoes for a couple albums and then made a lateral turn into something more interesting - think of Broadcast or even School of Seven Bells) https://obsoletelorelle.bandcamp.com
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 29 December 2019 09:01 (four years ago) link
I just got into their first album, thanks for reminding me to check out the later stuff.
― "Third of the Storms" Jazz (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 30 December 2019 23:15 (four years ago) link
https://alexchilltown.bandcamp.com/
quite a poor name but I'm fond of these, who i saw as a support band a few years ago and have been to see 3 or 4 times since. lp is quieter and slower than their gigs and i think it'd be better if they'd not sequenced a couple of the similar-sounding tracks together like they have, but hey...
― koogs, Monday, 3 February 2020 18:57 (four years ago) link
oh, am specifically taking about the new LP, eulogies
Recent discovery for me, might have been mentioned on here before -- Draag. New single's quite nice.
https://draagdraag.bandcamp.com/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 February 2020 19:07 (four years ago) link
There's a newish Stargazer Lilies and it's produced by Tobacco, which apparently means something to people (I only know the name).
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 14:51 (four years ago) link
Don't know where else to put this:
https://i.imgur.com/xAEDOJR.png
I'm now never going to unhear "shoegaze" pronounced "shoe-gaz-ee".
― the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Thursday, 2 April 2020 12:23 (four years ago) link
Haha. Slowdivee
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 2 April 2020 12:27 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/gKGAq7x.jpg
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 April 2020 13:17 (four years ago) link
oh no
― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 2 April 2020 13:19 (four years ago) link
part of me died
― blather rinse repeat 2020 (Hunt3r), Thursday, 2 April 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link
I only said "what you want?"
"Don't ask why! I believe, in another way, nothing much to lose. I need no trust!"
Lose my breath? You never should. "Sugar, good for you! How do you do it?"
"Emptiness inside... No more sorry!"
I can see it (but I can't feel it) "All I need. You made me realize. Good for you."
― Evan, Thursday, 2 April 2020 15:26 (four years ago) link
There was a massive homophobe on the old shoegazing forum who loved Bill Clinton, wonder if that's him.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/28-essential-songs-from-the-shoegaze-heavy-crossover/
― j., Thursday, 9 July 2020 01:21 (four years ago) link
I didn't know where else to post about the new No Joy album, Motherhood, which only sounds like shoegaze on occasion. It's wild!
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Saturday, 29 August 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
Oh, I have to check that out!
Came across this band today, from 2016, so new-ish. Really good set of influences, slowed down Swervedriver perhaps but with some of that Sci-Fi alt-rock thing, Hum, Lusk, Failure, and so on.
https://downhillwillows.bandcamp.com/album/downhill-willows-ep
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 3 September 2020 15:50 (four years ago) link
Please can I recommend Ian Sweet (not a solo guy, actually a solo woman / eponymous band), who only seems to have been mentioned twice ever on ILM and not at all in this thread. I was drawn to her music in by lush (lowercase L) guitar textures and unusual chord voicings that put me in mind of 90s Blonde Redhead or Sonic Youth. Last year I played her album Crush Crusher to death and she has a new song, Dumb Driver, which is pretty fricking nice. As with BR, she's an alumnus of Berklee and, fittingly, is the cover star on a Berklee shoegaze podcast on Spotify.
― Supposed Former ILM Lurker (WeWantMiles), Thursday, 3 September 2020 17:09 (four years ago) link
Sounds good, thanks!
― Hit It And Quit It Sideways (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 September 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link
I'm about two minutes into this new No Joy album and yes it is very very good
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 11:37 (four years ago) link
don't really know where to put this, but this is a great version of this jefre cantu-ledesma song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07d_coPy7Ws
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Sunday, 25 October 2020 00:35 (three years ago) link
that's "Julie Byrne & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Love's Refrain" btw
I was selling records and a guy described a band as “shoegaze” but 100% unironically pronounced it to rhyme with Fugazi.
― The little engine that choogled (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 25 October 2020 02:59 (three years ago) link
That is how I'm saying shoegaze from now on.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 25 October 2020 04:12 (three years ago) link
Shugazi would be a good tribute band schtick
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Sunday, 25 October 2020 05:25 (three years ago) link
would love a full album of Byrne and Cantu-Ledesma now
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 25 October 2020 09:09 (three years ago) link
Agreed! I love Julie Byrne's voice but I've never really been too excited about the music on her records before
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Sunday, 25 October 2020 10:46 (three years ago) link
The new Nothing really hits on some MBV vibes, especially on the back half of the record. Not particularly original, but def some nice shoegaze guitar work.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
Not that new, but more recent than the heyday of shoegaze...been going back to this sound, and I've been playing Vissuda a lot. From 2013.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGmij0adCJc
― Totally Insane Police State, 90210 (I M Losted), Saturday, 12 December 2020 09:34 (three years ago) link
They're not new, really, but: Keith Kenniff, who does stuff as Helios and Goldmund, and his wife Hollie have a duo called Mint Julep that hits a really lovely electronic pop/shoegaze sweet spot -- new album out yesterday
https://mintjulep.bandcamp.com/album/in-a-deep-and-dreamless-sleep
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 March 2021 17:49 (three years ago) link
Beautiful new single from Suzanne Kraft. Track 2 is the one here, down to the melty whammy bar
https://melodyastruth.bandcamp.com/album/on-our-hands-waiting?fbclid=IwAR3k4hUBBewA-UeM17bsX8MrKQdss2G6_IB4cu14zMj6My9NRk5k0TLYZDQ
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 22 March 2021 12:36 (three years ago) link