― kate (kate), Friday, 13 June 2003 07:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 March 2004 20:12 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 29 March 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 29 March 2004 20:23 (twenty years ago) link
kthx.
― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 29 March 2004 20:30 (twenty years ago) link
The Ecstacy Of Saint Theresa - S/D
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 29 March 2004 20:31 (twenty years ago) link
i am silly and should have thought of searching.
― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 29 March 2004 20:46 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Monday, 29 March 2004 21:25 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 29 March 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago) link
fun fact: a looooooong before i was blessed with his friendship, occasional ilx0r msp did the website for clairecords. he is dreamy. seriously.
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 29 March 2004 21:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Lil' Won Jilliams (ex machina), Monday, 29 March 2004 21:40 (twenty years ago) link
(xp)
― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 29 March 2004 21:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Grey (Ian_G), Monday, 29 March 2004 23:09 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 29 March 2004 23:35 (twenty years ago) link
radio dept. are maybe the best pop shoegaze band, their newest ep 'pulling our weight' is great.
― keith m (keithmcl), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 01:30 (twenty years ago) link
― mullygrubber (gaz), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 01:35 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 01:36 (twenty years ago) link
― mullygrubber (gaz), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 01:39 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 01:46 (twenty years ago) link
― brg30 (brg30), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 02:02 (twenty years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 02:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Ryan WS (fffv), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 02:43 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 02:44 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 02:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 02:46 (twenty years ago) link
― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 09:23 (twenty years ago) link
― the blissfox, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 15:00 (twenty years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 01:20 (twenty years ago) link
Ten years after the first one! Or so it seems.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 13:59 (twenty years ago) link
YES! Especially The Sound of the Colour of the Sun. Absolute classic (if you're into shoegazer, that is).
― rainman (rainman), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 14:14 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 21:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 22:07 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 22:13 (twenty years ago) link
MahoganyPia FrausBrasiliaOn!Air!Library!
All worthy of checking out.
― goodies, Wednesday, 31 March 2004 22:23 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 22:24 (twenty years ago) link
whoops! I actually forgot to paste your post before mine. I figured out the track I heard was "Gleaming Auction", but other songs on the album, 'Final Straw' sound similar.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 22:44 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 22:47 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 22:48 (twenty years ago) link
― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 23:49 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 23:55 (twenty years ago) link
I vote for the Delays over Mew, they work better on some undefinable level, though both are quite fine. Fennesz is better than both, though. The Joshua Treble solo album that came out recently is a pretty good if not striking Fennesz-like release which has its moments of haze and gaze.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 23:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 1 April 2004 00:07 (twenty years ago) link
Are they? I have to be honest, I didn't sense that, it just seemed like, well, enjoyable shoegaze, and I definitely don't recall any Pumpkins-like ego-apocalypse. Even Stina Nordenstam singing on tracks didn't spark things up further. The Delays are fairly straightforward perhaps, but they've got a good producer in Graham Sutton and they know how to work in strange noises into their songs, and it was all in all more involving for me, by a hair I guess.
I think Fennesz is doing something that can't be compared to those "bands".
Which is part of the point, by demonstrating how to use haze for alternate purposes -- it's a seemingly obvious equation of gaze plus IDM with ridiculously grand results that tends to trump all the other recent attempts at same -- whereas all the new bands sound like...bands doing shoegaze. Which, as I thought while I listened to some Bethany Curve, isn't always enough anymore.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 April 2004 00:13 (twenty years ago) link
"Am I Wry? No""156""Snow Brigade"
There's *way* more going on with the arrangements and textures than anywhere on the Delays album, and the vocals go quite stratospheric at points.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 1 April 2004 00:36 (twenty years ago) link
Really, this is all based on first listens, and the Delays' hooks worked better than Mew's, and that always counts for something. As such, Mew really ultimately strike me as no more or less creative than the Delays, the latter just has a little certain something in the end results more.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 April 2004 00:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 April 2004 00:52 (twenty years ago) link
As for Fennesz, as much as I enjoy his records (and especially several of the tracks on 'Venice'), it just whets my appetite for something that's beautiful on more levels - whether it be a catchy melody, more propulsion, more rhythm etc. The best tracks on 'Venice' sound like 'Loveless' interstitials which is a high compliment, but they're not specifically why I always return to that record. Also, there's a Kevin Shields piece called "2" from his La La Human Steps collaboration which is perhaps his best pure texture track (I've only found a barely acceptable quality .mp3 unfortunately). It gives me that same ecstatic nausea that frankly, no other "shoegaze" artist can do.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 1 April 2004 00:57 (twenty years ago) link
One Delays track I'm thinking of has this bit of Sigur Ros-style 'beautiful' guitar noise, but they then proceed to make a hook out of that instead of floating off into the ether wibbling like Our Boys From Iceland. Really captured my ear, because it's a seemingly simple approach that adds some unexpected depth, and not in the 'oh it is art' sense, just in the 'hey, more going on!' sense.
it just whets my appetite for something that's beautiful on more levels - whether it be a catchy melody, more propulsion, more rhythm etc
Well that's why for me when Sylvian brings in the purring voice everything's all 'oh heavens, THIS is nice.' I hadn't even realized he was on there and I still haven't heard the stuff they did together last year, so it was quite striking how well the two combined.
ecstatic nausea
Mmmm, nausea. Needs to be more of that. Haven't been knocked sideways in a long, long while.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 April 2004 01:04 (twenty years ago) link
Yes there is (re: Snowpony), and the second disc is remarkable, being as it's tracks off the album remixed in a drum'n'bass stylee by, er, Moving Shadow's Rob Playford...
As a slight aside, I finally got my mitts on a copy of Lush's Gala compilation! Arrived in the post yesterday. My, is it lovely.
Oh, and as to the shouegazine revival, think I might've mentioned Sennen before, but I've only just found out they have a website. so ner.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 1 April 2004 08:51 (twenty years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:24 (seventeen years ago) link
There's a lot of The Church in here as well as the obvious Shoegaze/Krautrock references. This is why I keep thinking you'd like it.
"Simple Solution" wouldn't be out of place on The Blurred Crusade or Remote Luxury.
― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 12:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Er um uh. (Meaning, soonish?) Meantime I will be reviewing the Like a Daydream comp for the AMG, roxor.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link
They sent me a MySpace friend request awhile back that I never got around to answering. I'll give them a listen...
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link
serious question--does the revival ever end? What's it like in the UK?
Seems like there's a lot more shoegazer/dreampop floating to the surface this year.
― The Great Forgiver (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 01:57 (eleven years ago) link
It is all kinda eternal at this point. For good/ill.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 01:59 (eleven years ago) link
never forget
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3xATi5s9-A
― hoda nkotb (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
i don't think it's going anywhere
saw these guys the other day and quite enjoyed it, though the melodies are a bit weak at times
http://pearlsgirlspearls.bandcamp.com/
― Im am... gobsacked (electricsound), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
lol Ned check this out
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/apr/12/shoegazing-back-in-fashion
― The Great Forgiver (dandydonweiner), Saturday, 13 April 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
It was a great year for shoegazers and dreampop
― Multiple Miggs (dandydonweiner), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 00:02 (ten years ago) link
And the new Alcest is just going to drive it even higher next year.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 00:17 (ten years ago) link
Shoegaze "was one of the wimpiest genres" of the 1990s. As opposed to "gangsta rap", I suppose.
― Sweetfrosti (I M Losted), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 02:15 (ten years ago) link
sometimes it seems like a lot of the black metal stuff is really just renamed shoegazerz
― Multiple Miggs (dandydonweiner), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 03:07 (ten years ago) link
No joke, I pretty much got into black metal via the stuff where the guitars sounded shoegaze-y to me.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 09:33 (ten years ago) link
thew new Chambermaids is great....lots of shoegaze stuff/dream/psych stuff in mpls these dayshttp://chambermaids.bandcamp.com/
― Southern Lorde (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 15:06 (ten years ago) link
OTM
― Multiple Miggs (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 12:49 (ten years ago) link
I really dig the new album (never heard the previous one TBH) from The History Of Apple Pie.This is the first video/single from the album and it's also my favorite song, though I like the whole disc:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M80Rn843dKI
I wasn't sure what 2014 rolling thread to put this in and I didn't think the band was popular enough to devotre a new thread to so here it is! Hopefully someone likes it...
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 2 October 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link
Previous album was good, haven't heard this new one but I'll check it out!
― bippity bup at the hotel california (Phil D.), Thursday, 2 October 2014 14:36 (nine years ago) link
Really enjoyed their first album and looking forward to spending time with this.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
it's a nice little record - oddly the two singles they preceded it with seem to be the two most out-of-place things on it
― outback bumfuc (electricsound), Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link
mentioned elsewhere but the two most recent album releases on shelflife - hobbes fanclub and luxembourg signal - both have sweetly shoegazey elements in amongst the jangle
― outback bumfuc (electricsound), Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:39 (nine years ago) link
and come recommended