...but I didn't know the album was due this soon!
― gosh I actually dig this shit (country matters), Monday, 22 June 2009 12:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Disappointed in the new album cover, tbh, but really glad they have a new one coming out. Also glad to see some ilm love for these guys!
― the sideburns are album-specific (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 22 June 2009 12:58 (fifteen years ago) link
hang on, is that an *actual* Cluster sample there?
― Violent In Design (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 11:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Sorry to be slow in replying but yes Engineers album's out and its pretty awerome -synths and proggy and shoegazey goodness.
― lolsbury hill (Trayce), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
gotta pick that up. the lea shores album that just came out is super lovely too
― c.c. crabcock (electricsound), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 23:29 (fifteen years ago) link
i probably mentioned it on the rolling indie thread but the SPC ECO album is really really lovely.
was disappointed by the 2nd fleeting joys record. songs maybe a little less weak than the first but they seemed to have ditched trying to sound like mbv for sounding like lenola instead
― get up and username (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 03:55 (fourteen years ago) link
beyond that things seem to be pretty quiet in shoegaze land, at least as far as i'm aware
― get up and username (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 03:57 (fourteen years ago) link
love the drums on "shine on down"
― we beat so many gimp (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 04:51 (fourteen years ago) link
cant find it anywhere tho, just copping myspace streams
― we beat so many gimp (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 05:10 (fourteen years ago) link
tis on emusic and also sh0egaz3ralive
― get up and username (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 05:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i like SPC ECO, but arent they really a 1 by 1 copy-paste band of 90's shoegaze?they do it good - yes, but totally nothing that you havent heard before.
― Zeno, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 05:50 (fourteen years ago) link
you're on a thread about a genre that's been endlessly retreading itself for nearly 20 years
i don't know if that's an especially compelling criticism
― get up and username (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 05:53 (fourteen years ago) link
you know what'd be good, is shoegaze-meets-baltimore club
― racist of the falling leaves (haitch), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 05:57 (fourteen years ago) link
haha jk i think i'd kill myself and all of u
― racist of the falling leaves (haitch), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 05:58 (fourteen years ago) link
good point, though still - there are some acts who succeeded in performing the genre with a new ,interesting angle.
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― Zeno, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 06:00 (fourteen years ago) link
no argument here. i certainly would never claim that most of these bands are anything close to original. they just all happen to have a sound that pushes the right buttons for me..
of course, were they getting large amounts of hype on p4k, i would be hating on them so fast
― get up and username (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 06:01 (fourteen years ago) link
also looooool haitch
― get up and username (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 06:02 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.divshare.com/download/8914303-d59
hand programmed electrogaze action. maybe someone will like it- maybe even Jim. it sounds better hella loud and when drinking. not a bmore club thang.
― dice in my pockets (csa), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
turn drums down and everything else up and you've got a winner
― get up and use(rna)me (electricsound), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
i have shitty eq gear but i get you, jim. winner? thanks.
― dice in my pockets (csa), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, good job. What electric sound said... I would add even more distortion, and how about a melody?
― one boob is free with one (daavid), Friday, 16 October 2009 07:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks, The supposed vocalist never showed up.....supposed to provide the melody part. Dude said like too upbeat.
I wanna hear tunes from ilxors now...guh.
― dice in my pockets (csa), Friday, 16 October 2009 08:43 (fourteen years ago) link
you be wanting this thread: What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?
― get up and use(rna)me (electricsound), Friday, 16 October 2009 08:53 (fourteen years ago) link
For sure. But I created this thread so I figured to add to it.
― dice in my pockets (csa), Friday, 16 October 2009 09:06 (fourteen years ago) link
The sample used by Engineers on Three Fact Fader is of Watussi by Harmonia.
You can all rest easy now.
― Doran, Friday, 16 October 2009 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link
new Malory single is gorgeous
also i am now really digging the depreciation guild album
― iTote 2.0 (electricsound), Friday, 22 January 2010 08:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Depreciation guild Is a lot of fun. Sorta Labrador records-ish. I downloaded the new Malory record maybe I should listen but they've been on a slow decline since the debut album.
― keythhtyek, Saturday, 23 January 2010 00:43 (fourteen years ago) link
When I read this I realized I have a copy of that Depreciation Guild album I haven't listened to. It sounds good (pretty- clear vinyl too).
― Evan, Saturday, 23 January 2010 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah this actually got me off my butt and listening to Harmonia and Cluster albums.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Saturday, 23 January 2010 03:08 (fourteen years ago) link
is the brother kite ever gonna release another lp?
― u b ilxin' (Hunt3r), Saturday, 23 January 2010 04:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I always wondered what shoegaze meant. So many bands fit in that genre or maybe not but they were labeled as such. Kind of like how I feel when I go on Emusic and see shit like Fort Lauterdale and MGMT listed as "punk"... I'm beginning to think genres no longer have any meaning other than what is perceived as cool and marketable. Kids grow up on something called "punk" and so they think they're punk because they were influenced by it, but in reality they are more appropriately labeled as neo psychedelia or something.
― Ray Gunner, Saturday, 23 January 2010 04:29 (fourteen years ago) link
shit gaze.
― zoom, Saturday, 23 January 2010 13:18 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean stuff like Blank Dogs. is the new shoe gaze. i don't want "feel good" abstract electric guitar pop. i want damaged abject dirty lo-fi noise.
― zoom, Saturday, 23 January 2010 13:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Brother kite's album is done. Seems like they are trying to figure out how to release it. The samples were uninspiring.
― keythhtyek, Saturday, 23 January 2010 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i remembered your comment from months ago. i heard some of the early mixes. hope they figured out how to save it.
― u b ilxin' (Hunt3r), Saturday, 23 January 2010 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
any thoughts on the Exit Calm album? i like the sounds a lot, but the guy's voice seems a little out of place. a little Vedderish at times.
― electricsound, Thursday, 3 June 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Shoegrunge?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 June 2010 00:05 (fourteen years ago) link
that makes me think of catherine wheel for some reason
― electricsound, Thursday, 3 June 2010 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm into the Ghost Society album, which is probably technically more dreampoppy than shoegazery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtFsSjxun20
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 June 2010 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link
^ - boy these sort of bands have looked and dressed the same for 20 years, no style never going out of style.
― bendy, Thursday, 3 June 2010 00:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Here's a pleasant, and potentially exhausting, trip down memory lane for anyone who grew up on this stuff/read the Melody Maker 90-93/attended lots of North London gigs.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/group.php?gid=125551254127044&ref=ts
The photo section has lots of interesting comments.
― disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Thursday, 3 June 2010 12:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm honestly not sure what to think about this:
it can arguably be said that the music scene in and around Camden Town, London during the late 1980's - early 1990's was one of the last scenes to emerge and grow in any kind of organic way. Back then you could sell 12,000 EPs and still be nobody- that kind of behavior would put you in the Top 10 these days
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 June 2010 12:48 (fourteen years ago) link
bullshit really
― disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Thursday, 3 June 2010 12:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Girl bass player never going out of style either apparently.
― I guess for copraphiles this is gonna be awesome (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 3 June 2010 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
not so sure about this second serena maneesh record (and never got into the first one).
― akm, Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
the first one was pretty weak imo - there's no 'drain cosmetics' on this record but i think it's better overall
― Help Im minger (electricsound), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
crash city saints album pretty good - quite a bit more lively than your usual MBV ripoffs.. there's bits of curve, raveonettes, early velocity girl etc in there. nothing even remotely original but a lovely listen
― the groin transfer (electricsound), Monday, 20 September 2010 10:05 (fourteen years ago) link
nothing even remotely original but a lovely listen
The more original the nu-shoegaze/dreampop band, the less interested I am. It's one of the only genres of rock I can think of that I don't want fucked around with and modernized in any way.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 20 September 2010 10:37 (fourteen years ago) link
That problem is, that approach is how you end up with bands like Air Formation.
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Monday, 20 September 2010 14:10 (fourteen years ago) link
johnny fever you completely baffle me sometimes
― cambyrdsclosetvacuumsounds4fun (acoleuthic), Monday, 20 September 2010 14:12 (fourteen years ago) link