shoegaze
EP: The Veldt – ‘Thanks to the Moth and Areanna Rose’
Just prior to heading out on tour with Modern English (sadly no European dates) shoegaze pioneers THe Veldt have released their new EP ‘Thanks to the Moth and Areanna Rose’ via U.S. label sonaBLAST! Records. At its core, the band are identical twins Daniel Chavis (vocals, guitar) and Danny Chavis (guitar), along with Hayato Nakao …
Track: The Telescopes – Silent Water
If you thought one album, As Light Return, was enough for one year from long serving noisy shoegaze favourites The Telescopes, up pops Stephen Lawrie and the gang with another, the six-track ‘Stone Tape’, out on November 20th via Rome label Yard Press. Taken from it is a ‘Silent Water’. It finds Lawrie not at …
Track: Kindling – Better World
On the verge of their new album, Hush, release on November 10th via 6131 records, Western Massachusetts’ edgy shoegaze five piece Kindling have released a third single from the album, ‘Better World’. Started as the recording project of Stephen Pierce and Gretchen Williams in 2014, the band has built and expanded their sound through a …
VIDEO: STILLWAVE – ’94 CIVIC’ + Live UK dates.
Hollands third finest export (after Orangeboom, and gouda) have just dropped their latest video ’94 Civic’. The track, taken from their soon to be released, and eagerly anticipated, debut album – Save Another Soul – is a homage to the bands early days spent driving round in a beat up old car that they inherited …
Say Psych: Interview – The Orange Kyte
Vancouver based four-headed, eight-legged The Orange Kyte have been attracting increased attention, partially due to the release of their LP Grow It Right recently on Portland label Little Cloud Records. They create a full-on immersive psychoramic sound that fizzes, fuzzes and fragments within shimmering pools of vividly colourful mind-expanding kaleidoscopia. Intrigued by this, BSM had …
New Music: Wild Meadows, Feel the Noise
Out on 22 September 2017 is a fantastic new single from Australian band Wild Meadows called ‘Feel the Noise’, off their soon to be released self-titled debut album. It is a classic shoegaze anthem redolent with swirling vocals, waves of sparkling guitar and gob-smacking choruses grander than the Simpson Desert: It’s invigorating, terrific stuff and …
New Music: Mogwai, Every Country’s Sun
Scotland’s Mogwai are one of those bands that have been on the periphery of my vision (or hearing?) for many years, receiving strong critical acclaim and amassing a huge and dedicated following. I just haven’t had room on my brimming musical plate to encompass them, and to be honest the idea of a (mostly) instrumental …
Say Psych: Track Review: Glider – See You There
Rating: 8/10 Cornwall duo Glider have released ‘See You There’ as part of the second installment of Wrong Way Records esteemed BLACKLIST 100 series on 11th August 2017. The vinyl limited to 100 copies comes with the added bonus of a CD of previously unheard demos. The dreamy track layers fuzzy guitar with a more …
Meet: A Shoreline Dream
Colorado’s A Shoreline Dream will soon be releasing their new single ‘Room For The Others’ via Latenight Weeknight Records. This is the fourth single from their ever-evolving new album, which is being released digitally one track at a time, before the full vinyl-only album is finally ready. A Shoreline Dream, comprised of Ryan Policky and …
Track: Sorry Escalator – Generation Winter / Street Corner Absurdity
Out now on Imagination Engine Records, the Leeds label specialising in limited Cassette releases, comes a two track EP from Middlesbrough quartet Sorry Escalator. Opener Generation Winter is this brooding, almost menacing slice of alt rock. Built on this edgy post punk verse, it flowers into something more straightforward and melodic as it hits the …