Shoegazer Revival

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I've heard some stuff from the Stratford 4 (I likey), but don't know much else about the new shoegazer/dreampop "revival."

Any band/album recommendations?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 19:52 (twenty years ago) link

www.tonevendor.com
www.clairecords.com

Browse with love.

― Xii (Xii), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 19:57 (twenty years ago) link

Grazi. The second link goes to Tonevendor, too.

http://www.clairecords.com/, for anyone else looking.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 20:00 (twenty years ago) link

Stratford 4 are on Firewater's label, Jetset. Check'emout at:

http://jetset.sinner.com/

Also, from the "Imaginary Tribute Bands" thread, I firmly think someone should capitalize on my idea and form an angular post-hardcore band that plays dream-pop covers and call themselves SHUGAZI. I'd fuckin' go see that in a nanosecond.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 20:04 (twenty years ago) link

Search ILM, we've done this question several times in the past year.
But once again: Mean Red Spiders, The Peter Parkers (not be confused with Peter Parker), A Northern Chorus, current wonderkids Broken Social Scene, Skywave and Aerial Love Feed come to mind.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 20:10 (twenty years ago) link

[There must be a new shoegazer/dreampop thread every month or so ! on ILM]

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 20:42 (twenty years ago) link

Longwave is pretty shoegazery, despite getting labelled as the Next Big New York Thing. On the less poppy side of things, Yume Bitsu and The Helio Sequence are both pretty good.

― Nick Mirov (nick), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 20:43 (twenty years ago) link

What Noodles and Martian said (but it's good that you're interested, Mr. Auckerman).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 21:14 (twenty years ago) link

Sianspheric
Landing
Paik

― brg30 (brg30), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 22:17 (twenty years ago) link

Malory and Timonium are both worth falling head over heels for.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 22:21 (twenty years ago) link

speaking of Timonium, their label Pehr does a lot of other good 'gazery stuff.. but Clairecords' catalogue is stunning.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 22:22 (twenty years ago) link

The second link goes to Tonevendor, too.

Oops. I didn't realize they had started redirecting. Not too long ago there was a separate site for Clairecords.

― Xii (Xii), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 22:54 (twenty years ago) link

Thanks for the heads up re: previous thrads. I just ran a Google search earlier and it didn't turn anything up.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 12 June 2003 06:08 (twenty years ago) link

In the UK, neo-shoegazer seems to be taking off on the post-Mogwai trip. Only bands I can think of off the top of my head are Red Jetson, who are a bit like Idlewild crossed with early Swervedriver. And Hentai, who love their pedals perhaps too much, but they are worth it for their name.

― kate (kate), Thursday, 12 June 2003 07:32 (twenty years ago) link

I want to say The Workhouse, but they're more Durutti than Valentines

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 12 June 2003 07:33 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.masstransfer.net

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Friday, 13 June 2003 00:05 (twenty years ago) link

search seattle's The Melody Unit, esp. the recent 'Choose Your Own Adventure'.

― derrick (derrick), Friday, 13 June 2003 00:32 (twenty years ago) link

Oops. I didn't realize they had started redirecting. Not too long ago there was a separate site for Clairecords

they did away with the old site cause new blood took over the tech duties and did tonevender all nice and cool. (* cries! i was their tech guy but life changes and all.)

i'm not sure i'd really call them revival. clairecords has been putting out shoegaze influenced records since the early 90's.

much of their music has totally different attachments besides the earliest goods.

very, very nice guys. buy stuff from them. rare is the distro that sends you candy with your goods!

― msp, Friday, 13 June 2003 00:49 (twenty years ago) link

that's a bit... twee.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 13 June 2003 02:11 (twenty years ago) link

please get over it.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 13 June 2003 02:12 (twenty years ago) link

ha. i didn't get any candy with my last order.

― keith (keithmcl), Friday, 13 June 2003 02:34 (twenty years ago) link

really? chiz. i haven't ordered from them in a year or so though so maybe it was sending them broke!

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 13 June 2003 02:36 (twenty years ago) link

recently it has mostly been postcards of lame bands. v ery darla.

― keith (keithmcl), Friday, 13 June 2003 02:50 (twenty years ago) link

Color Wall out of Los Angeles. Also, some friends of mine in an Ann Arbor band called The Jealous Type which some of you may like. My first reaction to their disc was "Fugazi gone 4AD", but now that may be giving their first album a bit too much credit.

Also, look up a band on MP3.com called the Flashing Astonishers. Or the Flaming Astonishers. One of the two.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 13 June 2003 04:08 (twenty years ago) link

i've got a coupla their empees that are rather good

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 13 June 2003 04:14 (twenty years ago) link

norman records sends candy! and it's cool candy I can't find in the US too. I Love Norman Records!

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 13 June 2003 05:41 (twenty years ago) link

i got some candy called White Stripes from norman. and classy stickers.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 13 June 2003 05:42 (twenty years ago) link

Ditto on Workhouse if you are talking about the Oxford band. Saw them live and although they're one of those "only have two gears" bands, they were very enjoyable in a relentless yet beautiful way. Their guitarist had two delay/sampler pedals!

― kate (kate), Friday, 13 June 2003 07:40 (twenty years ago) link

nine months pass...

The new Fennesz, the Delays, Mew, it's all coming back, woo!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 March 2004 20:12 (twenty years ago) link

haha "the new fennesz"...

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 29 March 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago) link

alright, so, i just added some Ecstasy of St. Theresa album to my "shopping cart." i did this because of the blurb on the website citing things like "fuzzy guitars" and "inaudible male and female vocals." but i ask you, denizens of ILX: is it good? what specifically is great that i will love? i typically don't like compilations, but are any of the currently in print ones a *quality* sample?

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 29 March 2004 20:23 (twenty years ago) link

okay, so just tell me if i'm making a mistake in buying pia fraus "in solarium" and the ecstasay of st. theresa "sussurate."

kthx.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 29 March 2004 20:30 (twenty years ago) link

dude...

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

the stratford 4: meh. there isn't much shoegazery about them despite how they seem to want their press to portray them.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Monday, 29 March 2004 21:25 (twenty years ago) link

tonevendor do good blurbs. i've never been disappointed taking a chance on a record based on their little spiels

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 29 March 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago) link

it's still daniel from clairecords right?

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

HI DO U GUYZ LIEK APPLESEED CAST?

― Lil' Won Jilliams (ex machina), Monday, 29 March 2004 21:40 (twenty years ago) link

yep still the same peoples..

(xp)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 29 March 2004 21:41 (twenty years ago) link

That first Timonium record is just so very good.

― Ian Grey (Ian_G), Monday, 29 March 2004 23:09 (twenty years ago) link

i have a video game that's soundtrack includes (aside from the hoodoo gurus!!!) a band named snowpatrol that do a song called "shouting games" which has a very Loveless inspired female melody during the chorus.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 29 March 2004 23:35 (twenty years ago) link

pia fraus is great, more propulsive(sometimes like rocketship, sometimes like lush) than a lot of current shoegaze stuff. my favorite band from estonia.

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

i haven't even been on this thread and i just got an email from someone called pete. whats up?

― mullygrubber (gaz), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 01:35 (twenty years ago) link

OH NO SHOEGAZE SPAM

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 01:36 (twenty years ago) link

this brings back memories of the blisscent list

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 01:36 (twenty years ago) link

it was named "Shoegaze" and the mailer claimed to be an ilxor. did you get one jim?

― mullygrubber (gaz), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 01:39 (twenty years ago) link

if i did it was probably to my hotmail addy so i'll know when i get home

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 01:46 (twenty years ago) link

I Repeat:
Sianspheric
Landing
Paik

― brg30 (brg30), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 02:02 (twenty years ago) link

Experimental Aircraft out of Austin are worth giving a listen - http://experimentalaircraft.com/

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 02:07 (twenty years ago) link

Mahogany needs to be mentioned on this thread, I think. Did they ever release anything after The Dream of a Modern Day? And are they still around?

― Ryan WS (fffv), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 02:43 (twenty years ago) link

Skipping 57 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

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notable only for their cover of Since Yesterday.

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 25 October 2004 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Slough Festival?!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 25 October 2004 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link

All this talk makes me of the merry.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 25 October 2004 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Radio Dept. are live in session on the Hub on Gideon Coe/ 6 Music this Friday
http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/presenters/gideon_coe/

also apparently tomorrow is:

We wish My Bloody Valentine's Debbie Googe a very Happy Indie Birthday today!

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 25 October 2004 13:59 (nineteen years ago) link

> Slough Festival?!

i was there! twice!

ride, curve, slowdive in 1991
er, jesus jones in 1992

http://www.mail-archive.com/sinister@majordomo.net/1998-month-07/msg00471.html
(check out the 'prev by date' message 8)

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 25 October 2004 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link

can someone reccomend some of this dancefloor friendly shoegaze stuff for me

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Monday, 25 October 2004 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link

What are the 3 must own albums from Clairecords?

― Piers (piers), Monday, 25 October 2004 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Good God, that club sounds like my idea of heaven.

― Rob M (Rob M), Monday, 25 October 2004 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link

:( answers?

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Monday, 25 October 2004 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, there are a few. It depends on what you're interested in.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 25 October 2004 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link

give me a starting place

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Monday, 25 October 2004 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Chapterhouse, Seefeel and of course MBV (at points).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 25 October 2004 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link

teenage filmstars "loving"

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Monday, 25 October 2004 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link

What are the 3 must own albums from Clairecords?
-- Piers (pier...), October 25th, 2004 8:42 AM. (piers) (later)

ecstasy of st. theresa - sussurate

also: tonevendor (who are big-upped on the Sacramento C/D, S/D. thread) are daniel and heather of clairecords.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 25 October 2004 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link

New Monster Movie album is great

― Clusterfuck at the Baja Fresh Salsa Bar (Ben Boyer), Monday, 25 October 2004 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link

You know, I remember that paragraph from Keith. Well, bits of it.

Where was Slough festival held? If that's not a silly question.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 25 October 2004 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link

my opinion on clairecords releases

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link

dancefloor friendly shoegaze = chapterhouse's "pearl"!

mbv's "soon" has a good beat but it's not really dancefloor-danceable (sorta like flipper's "sex bomb", &c).

― etc, Monday, 25 October 2004 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link

hhaha comparing mbv to flipper!

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Thanks surface noise and gygax. am thoroughly looking forward to receiving my first clairecords order!

― Piers (piers), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 00:30 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.kebabylon.com/scrubber%20outkast.jpg

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 03:43 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Three Words:

THE EARLY YEARS!!!

http://www.myspace.com/thesoundoftheearlyyears

Go get it. I heart them.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 11:17 (seventeen years ago) link

the early years album is good

i'm still enjoying the fleeting joys album despite it being hilariously derivative

jeniferever are also v good

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, that last band -- they named themselves after an unreleased Smashing Pumpkins song? And I thought *I* was obsessive...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Soundpool's new album is pretty good.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link

listening to this early years mob via myspace and thinking "meh", i realise that i somehow have their "all ones and zeroes" EP. added to iTunes 17/01/2006. last played ... er, 17/01/2006 :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't have the EP - looked at it at Truck, but the shop was already cashing out so I couldn't get it.

Is it a different mix from the album? I mean, I would actually say they're slightly better live than on album (well, apart from them not doing the harmonies live, but we've had a word about that, and they promise they'll try) but still, the album is bloody good.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:12 (seventeen years ago) link

it sounds marginally different to these ears, although i didn't listen carefully. i'm about to get on a train and disappear into the void that is london for the weekend, but i can bung you the MP3s next week if you want.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Ned and Chris B, have you got this yet?

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

Ned and Chris B, have you got this yet?

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

Ned and Chris B, have you got this yet?

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

It's real Delays weather here.

six years pass...

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

seven months pass...

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 days
http://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

nine months pass...

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

― outback bumfuc (electricsound), Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:39 (nine years ago) link

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