shoegaze
Album Review: Nothing – Tired Of Tomorrow
Nothing seem to float in this very unique musical cloud of both inescapable beauty and sharp ugliness. The sounds are both pastoral and urban. Domenic Palermo’s sometimes gritty upbringing in the streets of North Philly comes through in the sounds that come through the speakers. A youth soundtracked by both hardcore and shoegaze comes through …
Track: Stillwave – “What have you”
Opening with what has become their distinguishing trademark, Marcel Jongejan’s vocals lead us in and sweep us away into three minutes of synthetic bliss. “What Have You”slowly builds in intensity as its many layers unravel to reveal hidden depths of power and emotion that Stillwave so easily and skillfully turn over, and over again… “What Have You” is …
Premiere: darkdarkhead – Falling Upwards
We’re delighted to premiere the new, second single titled Falling Upwards, to be taken from darkdarkdarkhead’s new EP Strange Weather, which drops on March 25th via Saint Marie. Already having been the subject of a retrospective via Captured Trakcs, the band have continued to make slightly psychedelic shoegaze despite the band’s singer leaving in 2009. …
Track: Flowers – Everybody’s Dying to Meet You
Flowers return with their second album ‘Everybody’s Dying To Meet You’ and as one person who falls in love easily, I’m not ashamed to say I’m in love with this LP. If you spent your youth shoe gazing in the indie clubs on a Friday night to Cocteau Twins and Galaxie 500 this will be up your …
News: DIIV announce Spring European Tour
Brooklyn based shoegazers DIIV are gearing up to the release of their second album, Is The Is Are, a 17 song double album out this Friday (5th Feb) via Captured Tracks. Ahead of that, the follow up to critically acclaimed debut Oshin,they’ve announced a mammoth European tour this Spring taking in a handful of dates …
Track: Forced Random – Go Get It
By Ryan Jameson Weaver Go Get It, the latest track from Forced Random, is a paramount of tantalizing proportions. It is an anthemic cut that will pull at your heartstrings with its introspective guise and bring you up with its upward mobility. The slow, thrashing, wall of noise unfolds in front of you like dominoes …
See: Wozniak release new visuals for Gospel of Infinity
As you will be well aware if you follow Backseat Mafia at all, Edinburgh’s Wozniak are one of our favourite bands around right now. Full of intensity and passion in their largely (but not totally) instrumental post-rock/shoegaze, they are managing to do something plough their own furrow rather successfully. Taken from their recent EP, Auster, …
Track: Street Chant – Never
Auckland three piece Street Chant have already released a couple of singles from their forthcoming album Hauora – out on Flying Nun/Arch Hill early 2016. . For the third slice of whats to come, a single Never, they’ve turned to something a little older. Emily Littler from the band explains “I had an immense struggle …
See: Coves release new video for “Stormy”
The adulation with which Coves debut album ‘Soft Friday’ was received last year make their soon to be released second album something that’s regarded with almost psychotic excitement (maybe thats just here). Talking about the new album, Rebekah Wood says its about “The transition between Leamington and London – how our life is now compared …
Album Review: The Telescopes – Splashdown The Complete Creation Recordings 1990-92
I remember seeing the Telescopes on the main stage in 1990 at Reading Festival on the bill with Loop, the Pixies and the Fall, such was their quick rise following the release of early singles Kick the Wall and 7th Disaster on Cheree Records. The band were signed by Alan McGees Creation records soon after …