can someone show me a NEW shoegaze band

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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

eleven months pass...

the latest Color Filter album "silent way" is completely wonderful. dreamy and blissful but in a far more subtle way than 99% of so-called 'shoegaze' releases..

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 21 July 2005 03:01 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...

sydney band Sounds Like Sunset's new album "Invisible" is like a heavier Joy Zipper / Autolux type thing and the songs are great. highly recommended, and not just because TB are supporting them when they come to melbie

― vacuum cleaner (electricsound), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 07:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Can someone please talk about Sennen (the UK band)? That is, if they're worth talking about.

― phallocentric (desolate), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 07:57 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Pacific UV is like a poorman's Spiritualized, but still not bad.

i love their album. i sometimes see the spiritualized connection, sometimes not. but it's really good anyway.

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 10 November 2005 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link

i can second color filter, i saw them play in Setagaya tokyo this time last year and they were fab, sort of strung between your '92 vintage pedal hoppers with a lush saint etienne-y , laptopy quality. sonic cathedral should get them over to play IMMEDIATELY.

god i wish i was in tokyo now.

― cw (cww), Thursday, 10 November 2005 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link

All this Skywave love and no mention of A Place To Bury Strangers?

C'mon, people.

http://www.aplacetoburystrangers.com/

― cdwill, Thursday, 10 November 2005 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link

i know its been said before in other threads but the Radio Dept. album "lesser matters" is top notch.

and the newest Air Formation album on clairecords is also quite good.

and i guess its not exactly new, but the Mahogany single/ep collection on darla is excellent, better than their LP i'd say.

― brontosaur, Thursday, 10 November 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

it's been a while since i've listened to the first mahogany album.. maybe i'll queue up the whole lot and have a mahogany listening orgy

― john p. irrelevant (electricsound), Thursday, 10 November 2005 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link

engineers

― John Jacob, Thursday, 10 November 2005 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link

televise!!

― john p. irrelevant (electricsound), Thursday, 10 November 2005 23:32 (nineteen years ago) link

some of the characters on this neat little disc

http://www.clubac30.com/releases/release.php?RID=63A1AA758C1815EF6C1E0B6C21DD7E90

― john p. irrelevant (electricsound), Thursday, 10 November 2005 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Ladytron

― w. lee, Thursday, 10 November 2005 23:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Amusement Parks on Fire ... on Filter's label

― Kay Randolph, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Can't stop praising Experimental Aircraft. I'm stoked about their new fucking double album coming soon...

HOLLA!

― Mr Adolph bin Streisand (Mr_Adolph_bin_Streisand), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Malory's new record is kinda good, in a way that they imitate Slowdive as good as possible

― Rizz (Rizz), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, when I heard Ladytron the first thing that popped into my head was "Catherine Wheel!" Of course, it's not shoegaze simpliciter, but there are a lot of shoes being gazed at there.

― Vornado, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I did not hear Catherine Wheel at all with the new (I assume you talking about Witching Hour) Ladytron.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Amusement Parks on Fire are ace, Air Formation,Heroes of Switzerland,Ex Air,theres loads of good bands now. Check out www.shoegaze.co.uk and go on the forums:)

― Jase, Monday, 28 November 2005 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Faunts out on friendly fire recs...big soaring walls...bits of raiohead...bt more spiritualized and ride....that sorta thing...

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 28 November 2005 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link

engineers. engineers. engineers.

― John Jacob, Monday, 28 November 2005 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link

For an awesome modern take on shoegaze, check out Serena Maneesh (http://www.serena-maneesh.com). I've also got a shoegaze retrospective I'm working through on my site, if you'd like to check that out: http://areyoufamiliar.blogspot.com/ (scan through the archives)

― Familiar, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 08:01 (eighteen years ago) link

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