can someone show me a NEW shoegaze band

Giving this a relisten today and it's better the second time!

Can’t believe Bleach Lab hasn’t blown up yet. On the dreamier and janglier side of shoegaze, with some clear traces of the Smiths. Absolutely love them

New Flyying Colours is indeed Stoke City on this. I haven't been shown many NEW shoegazers that aren't afraid to go Swervedriver/riff-mongers and they're experts at it.

can someone show me a OLD shoegaze band that stopped being a shoegaze band for a long time but now they are back to being a NEW shoegaze band?

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

(excellent video imho)

Went to see You Said Strange (French, currently touring the west coast) knowing basically nothing about them, thought they were great live!

Hm! Keeping that in mind, though sadly it seems like they're skipping the Bay Area altogether?

https://motifs.bandcamp.com/album/remember-a-stranger

Singapore-based shoegaze/dream pop, pretty great

Digging the new one from Uniforms: https://uniformsband.bandcamp.com/album/trance (they're from Almería, Spain)

Twin Drugs from Richmond sounds great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZnTfL6B0PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe1Xurn12dc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjFXZOwEZu0

Anyone here rate the band Knifeplay? They were mentioned to me in this context (a modern MBV-influenced band), and they def sound up that alley...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UAmQDjeIEU

hotline tnt album sounding like an instant classic to me

^It's so good!!!

I really must investigate this.

There are some really nice moments on this. I like the little break beat moment.

yeah i like it ok, what kept me interested was listening for the odder stuff tossed into the stew, like "huh strong keys line"

Yeah initially it felt a little same-y to me but there little moments that you start to notice after a bit.

Agree the Hotline TNT is excellent. Didn't know it but I needed this album rn.

I saw Margaritas Podridas (Sonora, MX) at a tiny local bar last week and their live show was really great... I wasn't as wowed by the few studio songs I'd heard.

Sidenote: A few days earlier I saw The Umbrellas (not shoegaze) perform as 1987-1988 MBV for an outdoor halloween show and that life-affirming.

"Spot Me 100" is my early favorite on the Hotline TNT. That middle section with the drum n bass breakbeat is killer.

some pretty good songs on the hotline tnt album and some that are just kinda nothing

This sounds like Ride, which is not a bad thing. I enjoyed this and will play it again.

Hotline TNT in case that wasn't clear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU1txICBt0Y

(^Korean shoegaze that popped up on my radar today)

Anyone into Hotline TNT should check out Will Anderson’s previous band Weed. Criminally overlooked. 90s alt rock anthems brutalized by distortion blankets. Really lovely sad boy melodies throughout.

Devotion is a great record to start with, specifically the song Silent Partner.

Or maybe Set Me Back. Or Your Right. Or Granted…

https://weed.bandcamp.com/album/deserve

https://theyareguttingabodyofwater.bandcamp.com

Also known as TAGABOW. Recommended if you like the eclectic punk-spirited shoegaze of Swirlies, also hear some similarities with contemporaries Ovlov at times.

― Evan, Monday, 16 January 2023 16:27 (nine months ago) link

Feels like Hotline TNT is from the same universe as this^

enjoying this hotline TNT, thx for rec

co-sign, especially the love for "spot me 100."

"brutalized by distortion blankets" is a good way to describe TAGABOW, who rule.

i thought the last Hotline TNT album (Nineteen In Love, below) was a close cousin to TAGABOW, but this new one seems quite a bit "cleaner" ... admittedly, i have only listened once.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rFAFl4iK9U

Not sold on HTNT - feels pretty generic - but what really turns me off is the lifeless mastering, could this be an Apple Music issue?

True the last one definitely felt closer. In general the whole Smoking Room Label roster has a similar sound

xp

Intrigued by this article about Filipino shoegaze/dream pop. Anyone familiar, have recommendations?

https://billboardphilippines.com/culture/scenes/the-most-popular-genre-youve-never-heard-of-filipino-shoegaze-and-dreampop/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ

not new but +/- always had a shoegaze side to them*:

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

*James Baluyut of versus

More ideas here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0jm5fk2JbnfgdpwWuQmc40?si=622df9e80e874390

About Filipino shoegaze, I mean.

hotline tnt album sounding like an instant classic to me

― flopson, Saturday, November 4, 2023 12:30 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

still playing this all the time. love it lots

https://www.stereogum.com/2245469/tiktok-has-made-shoegaze-bigger-than-ever/columns/sounding-board/

are we talking about this anywhere else?

saw it this morning

very curious

the tiktok angle is strong and solid, sure, but ambient also seems very in vogue with gen z, and that's not, to my knowledge, tiktok related

I feel there must be pre-SoMe examples of generational genre revivals

As the fairly-thorough article intimates, there is more than one shoegaze, and the sort to go properly viral is the sleepier, more drain rap /vibesy beats adjacent sort, because idk young people have been traumatised by internet exposure and need to numb the pain of existence or something, but it's cool to note that some actually good shoegaze is rising up alongside the dirges (for example it's nice to see Jane Remover get a shoutout, although I'd actually describe her stuff as kind of a bridge between numbgaze and something more structured and lively - the Best Draingazer lol)

'actually good shoegaze' = 'shoegaze that still remembers to be psych-rock/pop'

the big thing i don't understand is how duster (though they're not shoegaze) ended up with a such a following among younger people. when are low going to have a tiktok hit

i'm pretty sure beach house's "space song" was originally a youtube algorithm thing? or it was used in a tv show (years ago, not wednesday)? its popularity predates tiktok anyway i'm pretty sure

most of the stuff in that article is just 'we have deftones and hum at home' idk

To really generalize it, Duster and shoegaze seem like just the sort of rock that would catch on with a generation that doesn’t really respect or like to rock.

And by respect I don’t mean show fealty to the rock gods, they just don’t seem interested in some of the sensations wild or abrasive rock n roll can provide. Or at least not without interrogating it to the point that they can’t.

Slowdive seems far bigger with the youth than with their contemporaries.

I like this a lot, best Vondré track yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdlcmzP0Gi8

the big thing i don't understand is how duster (though they're not shoegaze) ended up with a such a following among younger people.

― ufo, Wednesday, December 20, 2023 6:50 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think it's because they capture a particular mood through their music that resonates with that demo... a blend of zoned-out and deep-feeling that carries a ton of weight without any melodrama. Poignant bliss that never gets too sappy. Slowdive deliver that kind of thing too.

But there are a million 90s bands that can be described exactly that way. Don't get me wrong, Duster's cool and I think Stratosphere (which I only heard for the first time last year) is a good record, but weren't they at best like a fourth tier slowcore band at the time? Like I knew a lot of Codeine and Bedhead and even Rex fans back in the day and I don't recall any of them ever even mentioning Duster. The randomness of the algorithm is a mysterious thing

numero put out that box set in 2019, maybe gave the band some mystique from the perspective of young folx