can someone show me a NEW shoegaze band

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I'm glad that it seems there is an excitement about shoegaze recently. Can someone point me to a new shoegaze act? I know there have to be new bands popping up but where are they? ILM mentions M83 but their site crashes on me for some reason. Any other newbies that resurrect the great spirit would be appreciated.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Saturday, 13 December 2003 09:57 (9 years ago) Permalink

Calla

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 December 2003 09:58 (9 years ago) Permalink

Are they a google away?

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Saturday, 13 December 2003 10:00 (9 years ago) Permalink

Isn't everything?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 December 2003 10:01 (9 years ago) Permalink

Fine. I'm trying to be lazy but you insist.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Saturday, 13 December 2003 10:03 (9 years ago) Permalink

sigur ros!

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Saturday, 13 December 2003 10:06 (9 years ago) Permalink

Try epitonic for mp3s maybe. I saw them open for Firewater last week, and they struck me as rather Shoegazey. Not a Chapterhourse clone, mind you, but definitely inclined to indulge in a healthy bit of toe observation.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 December 2003 10:07 (9 years ago) Permalink

i think joy zipper are supposed to be shoegazer-y. i'm reviewing their newie this weekend but i haven't managed to listen to it yet. it's only 6 songs so i can give it several listens before writing...

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Saturday, 13 December 2003 10:10 (9 years ago) Permalink

Just checked out mp3's of Calla. Ehh. Thanks Alex anyhow. I'll check epitonic next.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Saturday, 13 December 2003 10:14 (9 years ago) Permalink

I thought they were pretty Ehh myself, but people were definetely into'em.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 December 2003 10:17 (9 years ago) Permalink

ulrich schnauss

― gaz (gaz), Saturday, 13 December 2003 10:22 (9 years ago) Permalink

Ulrich..first search gets me to Discogs and some german site and then Warp. I'll keep on it.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Saturday, 13 December 2003 10:29 (9 years ago) Permalink

this thread sucks

Malory! Isobella! Paik! Pacific UV!

fucking Clairecords people!!!!

sort yourselves out

― the surface noise (electricsound), Saturday, 13 December 2003 11:08 (9 years ago) Permalink

the Workhouse

― Schwingung (Damian), Saturday, 13 December 2003 11:28 (9 years ago) Permalink

yeah!!!

― the surface noise (electricsound), Saturday, 13 December 2003 11:46 (9 years ago) Permalink

Guitar and Pluramon.

― JoB (JoB), Saturday, 13 December 2003 12:24 (9 years ago) Permalink

Kinski have a fair bit of the 'gaze as well, as do Bardo Pond, but both have a lot of other fish to fry in general.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 December 2003 16:27 (9 years ago) Permalink

Pacific UV is like a poorman's Spiritualized, but still not bad.
Is Malory still around? Thy're good.

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 13 December 2003 17:58 (9 years ago) Permalink

The Peter Parkers, Mean Red Spiders and you'd probably like Readymade too.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 13 December 2003 18:03 (9 years ago) Permalink

Some people really liked that Manitoba record

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Saturday, 13 December 2003 18:16 (9 years ago) Permalink

my usual Marine Time Keepers mention, probably the prettiest, musically speaking, shoegazing band around today. radio dept is like a shoegazing band that writes pop songs and their new ep is wonderful.

― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 13 December 2003 18:36 (9 years ago) Permalink

Guitar (that's the name of the band) has an album called "Sunkissed" that's probably up your alley.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Saturday, 13 December 2003 19:12 (9 years ago) Permalink

Timonium do a kinda shoegazey/slowcore thing. "Self Evidence" is a really pretty song.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 13 December 2003 19:22 (9 years ago) Permalink

Trouble with "shoegazer" is that it was so of-it's-time that anyone trying to re-create it - modern spin or not - end up being a complete revivalist band.

I think most bands these days that are labelled "shoegazer" would be better suited to "slowcore" or "dream-pop" labels.

Labelling is wrong.

― Stupid (Stupid), Saturday, 13 December 2003 20:24 (9 years ago) Permalink

Maybe labeling is wrong. My personal view is to call Coldplay a shoegaze act. How the fuck is calling something slow core or dream-pop going to change a thing. This is an atmospheric aesthetic. Call it whatever you want. You know when you are there.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Saturday, 13 December 2003 20:45 (9 years ago) Permalink

You just said the C word.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Saturday, 13 December 2003 20:54 (9 years ago) Permalink

ooop..I wasn't supposed to cuss.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Saturday, 13 December 2003 22:13 (9 years ago) Permalink

"Maybe labeling is wrong. My personal view is to call Coldplay a shoegaze act. How the fuck is calling something slow core or dream-pop going to change a thing. This is an atmospheric aesthetic. Call it whatever you want. You know when you are there."

Coldplay have certainly been influenced by Catherine Wheel, My Bloody Valentine and other bands like that, but that's not to say they're a shoegazer band.

I guess this is a semantical debate. Shoegazer, to me, isn't about an "atmospheric aesthetic", it's much more specific than that.

― Stupid (Stupid), Saturday, 13 December 2003 22:29 (9 years ago) Permalink

Thanks to the guy who called this a stupid thread for pointing me to Clairecords and for the shoegazer web ring.

I declare 2004 the year of the Shoegaze. I'm chinese for sake of argument. With all the discussion around here about it in the last month or so I feel Congress will agree.

A firecracker parade will follow.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Saturday, 13 December 2003 22:44 (9 years ago) Permalink

http://www.masstransfer.net

― Nihilist Pop Star (mjt), Saturday, 13 December 2003 22:47 (9 years ago) Permalink

MT..what should I be looking at masstransfer?

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Saturday, 13 December 2003 22:56 (9 years ago) Permalink

man i was drunk last night so don't take the stupid stuff personally

this thread is good now

― the surface noise (electricsound), Saturday, 13 December 2003 22:57 (9 years ago) Permalink

And what is the dream-pop schtick? Kylie Minogue? Current 93 doing CrowleyMass? Coil doing Tainted Love in a less cabaret-type style?

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

Some of Joy Zipper's stuff is shoe-gazery and some isn't. Conveniently, I have the most MBV sounding track up on my blog right now. The song is Baby You Should Know (go to the Friday 12/5 entry) and I like it a lot. Blog is www.mysticalbeast.blogspot.com and soon I'll teach myself how to post links.

― dlp9001, Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:13 (9 years ago) Permalink

you'll thank me:

www.theearlies.com

― the priest, Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:14 (9 years ago) Permalink

Also www.melodic.com - the new compilation of 'tracks for horses' includes some mighty fine orchestrated dream pop. worth checking out.

― the priest, Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:18 (9 years ago) Permalink

Thanks Priest, but if you know these guys tell em' to lengthen their clips. If you can't hear a chorus on a clip then...

I will now check out melodic.com

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:26 (9 years ago) Permalink

i think this thread shoudl be about wombedelia, not shoegazing. shoegazing just means lots of effects pedals and vague lyricism right? there is bound to be overlap into several other "genres".

― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:58 (9 years ago) Permalink

MT..what should I be looking at masstransfer?

I would click the "Free Sample Issue" button on the side and see what happens.

This zine is run by Ryan Anderson who used to play with Fuxa back in the old Michigan space rock days. Each issue comes with a free cd comp that is mostly showgaze and space rock. If you are interested in that sound they are very worth picking up. Ryan keeps the prices dirt cheap, they cost $7.20 a piece and that covers the shipping.

If you do decide to pick up back issues I would recommend that you start with issue three and work your way forward. The first couple issues were a bit patchy but they got better with every following issue.

As far as bands go, I would recommend looking into Tristeza/The Album Leaf, Cerberus Shoal, Landing, Hinterland, and Tex La Homa. ESOJ's(the surface noise) and Ned's picks are both completely otm and I would have recommended them myself if they had not beaten me to the punch.

― Nihilist Pop Star (mjt), Sunday, 14 December 2003 00:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

Shoegazer Revival - S/D

― Nick Mirov (nick), Sunday, 14 December 2003 02:36 (9 years ago) Permalink

You might like to check out some of the cassette-only releases on the Best Kept Secret label. http://www.indiepages.com/bestkeptsecret/.

― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Sunday, 14 December 2003 04:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

you'd probably like Readymade too.

Readymade isn't exactly new. They were sending out annoying promo stuff 6/7 years ago.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 14 December 2003 05:46 (9 years ago) Permalink

give me some days to digest this lot y'all.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:56 (9 years ago) Permalink

yellow6

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Sunday, 14 December 2003 08:13 (9 years ago) Permalink

Readymade's latest album, 'On Point and Red', is wonderful for this. Also, a Seattle band called The Melody Unit, who definitely take the dream-pop side, but are wonderful. Look into their 7-minute songs, 'April New Year' and 'Suite for Caesar', but really, their entire 'Choose Your Own Adventure' album.

― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 14 December 2003 08:49 (9 years ago) Permalink

didnt like Yellow6 at all.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Sunday, 14 December 2003 22:57 (9 years ago) Permalink

neither do i to be honest, although a couple of their early singles are quite nice

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 14 December 2003 22:58 (9 years ago) Permalink

the Words On Music label is leaning towards the shoegaze/dreampop thing as well. they released the excellent Fiel Garvie album

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 14 December 2003 22:59 (9 years ago) Permalink

M83 is like Air in a shoegazer poncho. Even if their site keeps crashing (it has a buggy fake DOS interface) -- c'mon, you owe it to the hypnotic nerve centers to figure something out. Their Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts has hit this encroaching winter for me on all levels.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Sunday, 14 December 2003 23:37 (9 years ago) Permalink

the Words On Music label is leaning towards the shoegaze/dreampop thing as well. they released the excellent Fiel Garvie album

The Meeting Places as well...reasonable enough rotegaze.

M83, now lemme tell ya, I guess I enjoyed the album the one time I heard it, but that was six months ago and I haven't felt any need to listen again.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 December 2003 23:53 (9 years ago) Permalink

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ha. are they american? american shoegaze bands take themselves so seriously. i'd bet they were from new york.

― keythhtyek, Sunday, 25 March 2012 16:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

Denmark.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 25 March 2012 16:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

ah, they're po-faced too under byen, efterklang.

― keythhtyek, Sunday, 25 March 2012 16:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

Keyboardist has the Gillian Gilbert down cold. I like it.

― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Sunday, 25 March 2012 17:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

Been playing this a lot recently, v lovely:

― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Saturday, 7 April 2012 14:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://heavensgate.bandcamp.com/

― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 7 April 2012 14:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

^ kinda getting kicked around the edges of the shea stadium/2585 brooklyn scene. They used to be under a different name/lineup that I am COMPLETELY blanking on for some reason.

― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 7 April 2012 14:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

Sweet Bulbs. They used to be Sweet Bulbs

― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 7 April 2012 14:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

i dug sweet bulbs, sounds like good stuff

― kate axford likes this (electricsound), Saturday, 7 April 2012 22:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

Glad to hear you're liking the Golden Awesome, ESoJ - did you ever hear any of vocalist Stef's work as Stef Animal? Was going to release something on Bachelorette's label about five years ago, but lost the masters - of the bits & pieces that had bobbed around, there was a gorgeous cover of the 3Ds' "Cash None", amongst other things.

― etc, Saturday, 7 April 2012 22:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

i didn't - tbh i can't remember how i tripped over the GA in the first place! do they have any available releases at all?

― scumulator (electricsound), Saturday, 7 April 2012 23:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

Nothing official, sadly. I'll have a fossick around - what I have might be in storage back in NZ, but if not I'll send it your way. Stef was in Dunedin band Mëstar ages ago with John White, too - dreampop bubblegrunge tracks like Secret Garden hold up pretty well imo.

― etc, Saturday, 7 April 2012 23:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

Golden Awesome have an album out on M'Ladys & you can get in here on Bandcamp http://thegoldenawesomenz.bandcamp.com/

Album also available on vinyl

― Bill E, Sunday, 8 April 2012 00:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

Oh, wait, Golden Awesome totally have a release out; was meaning Stef Animal =p

M'Ladys connection is via Fi from Coasting IIRC, who used to be in (awesome NZ band) the Coolies.

― etc, Sunday, 8 April 2012 08:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

ah there you go - quite dig coasting too, though their album is a touch more lo-fi than really works for them

― scumulator (electricsound), Sunday, 8 April 2012 08:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

young prisms have done their homework on the haircuts but not so much on the music, although i guess they could pass for beach house tribute band on some tracks.

― keythhtyek, Sunday, 8 April 2012 13:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

Is/Is is a new shoegazey band from Mpls...the song Death Treat is great

http://is-is.bandcamp.com/track/death-treat

― Mississippi Butt Hurt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 22:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 6 July 2012 16:09 (10 months ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

electricsound I just now am checking out the first Big Troubles album. I'm really liking it- but did they go the same direction as Pains of Being Pure at Heart with the second album? Haven't heard it.

― Evan, Thursday, 20 September 2012 23:06 (8 months ago) Permalink

they turned into a jangly powerpop band instead

― upset and upsetting (electricsound), Thursday, 20 September 2012 23:26 (8 months ago) Permalink

In a good way or bad? Also Freudian Slips is a bit of a blatant Boo Radleys rip.

― Evan, Thursday, 20 September 2012 23:32 (8 months ago) Permalink

I also live right next to Ridgewood relatively and am upset I don't get to jam with this whole scene of late 80s early 90s inspired guitar pop lovers (referring to Real Estate and those I've yet to discover). But I don't know what I'd have to do to befriend these people.

― Evan, Thursday, 20 September 2012 23:38 (8 months ago) Permalink

a bit

to say the least

i like 'romantic comedy', about a third of it is fantastic, but it doesn't "sound" as nice as its predecessor

― upset and upsetting (electricsound), Friday, 21 September 2012 00:28 (8 months ago) Permalink

not a new band, but I'm sad that the Austin, TX band Astroblast has never been mentioned on ilx. tweegaze/Slumberland/Velocity Girl type stuff with lots of keyboards — search their 2003 album This Will Help You on Your Way

― 50 miles of lmao room (unregistered), Friday, 21 September 2012 15:53 (8 months ago) Permalink

― 50 miles of lmao room (unregistered), Friday, 21 September 2012 15:54 (8 months ago) Permalink

Very cool! I like it, thanks!

― Evan, Friday, 21 September 2012 21:38 (8 months ago) Permalink

That's not bad...but what about "harder" stuff? I mean, I like Cable and Isis, which is sort of like art metal but they're kind of shoegazy. Like really LOUD guitars.

― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Italo Night at Some Gay Club (Mount Cleaners), Friday, 21 September 2012 22:31 (8 months ago) Permalink

Have we mentioned Whirr yet?

― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Saturday, 22 September 2012 00:24 (8 months ago) Permalink

i thought the whirr album was pretty generic, but there was potential there

― upset and upsetting (electricsound), Saturday, 22 September 2012 00:26 (8 months ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

Hammock are new to me but lord this is doing it for me right about now:

http://hammockmusic.com/departure-songs

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:31 (7 months ago) Permalink

Neat. Hammock's past work has been largely instrumental which placed it in the post-rock continuum, but I always thought they should bring in a vocalist.

From 2009:

― ‽ Interrobang You're Dead ‽ (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:09 (7 months ago) Permalink

They were on one of those shoegaze cover compilations in the mid 2000s - Never Lose That Feeling album if I am remembering correctly. They covered "Black Metallic"

― van smack, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:13 (7 months ago) Permalink

this one: http://www.discogs.com/Various-Never-Lose-That-Feeling-Volume-2/release/812718

― van smack, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:15 (7 months ago) Permalink

Which reminds me, David Altobelli's videos for Hammock may be the most poignant, beautiful indie music videos I've ever seen.

― ‽ Interrobang You're Dead ‽ (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:20 (7 months ago) Permalink

just wanted to say this Hammock album is incredible

― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Friday, 26 October 2012 18:04 (6 months ago) Permalink

Knew you would love it.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 October 2012 18:06 (6 months ago) Permalink

"(Let's Kiss) While the Stars are All Falling Down" has been on repeat for a while now.

― ‽ Interrobang You're Dead ‽ (Sanpaku), Friday, 26 October 2012 19:23 (6 months ago) Permalink

haha that's exactly the song that was playing which prompted me to post to this thread

― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Friday, 26 October 2012 19:24 (6 months ago) Permalink

Wish the timelapse went on longer:

― ‽ Interrobang You're Dead ‽ (Sanpaku), Friday, 26 October 2012 19:35 (6 months ago) Permalink

Okay, another one here, from Bristol, and they have a lot to choose from:

http://soundcloud.com/stumbleineuk

Very much on the neoelectrogaze tip, plus flecks of ethereal r'n'b (but this isn't How to Dress Well etc. if that's your concern). And they're named after a Smashing Pumpkins song, of COURSE I like 'em.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 14:25 (6 months ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

not totally shoegaze but lots of gauzy guitars and dreaminess

Pony Trash from Mpls, kind of like crazy horse/the chills/the church in a blender, slick basslines too

http://ponytrash1.bandcamp.com/

― U.S. State Department, Office of Rare Psych (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 November 2012 19:44 (6 months ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

The headline is correct. For better or worse.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 April 2013 22:22 (1 month ago) Permalink

would the besnard lakes fall into this category?

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 12 April 2013 22:27 (1 month ago) Permalink

Need emphasis:

"We are not rock," shouted back frontman Blixa Bargeld. "We are shoegaze; look at your fucking shoes!"

― Me So Hormetic (Sanpaku), Friday, 12 April 2013 22:29 (1 month ago) Permalink

that article was pretty bad in a couple of ways

― wee waa nee (electricsound), Friday, 12 April 2013 22:53 (1 month ago) Permalink

My Bloody Valentine, grandaddies of 'gaze, finally release the album they started 17 years ago and suddenly, somehow, along comes a massive wang of new bands sounding like music's equivalent of mumblecore

followed by a list of bands some of which have been around for five years or more

"It was when 'shoegaze' was given as a genre option on MySpace that it became acceptable to label your music in that way,"

holy shit this is piffle

― wee waa nee (electricsound), Friday, 12 April 2013 22:54 (1 month ago) Permalink

No Joy's Wait To Pleasure (April 23) gets the advance streaming treatment on Pitchfork this week.

I think thisthreaders will find much to like.

― Me So Hormetic (Sanpaku), Friday, 19 April 2013 02:22 (1 month ago) Permalink

this is nice

http://halfstring.bandcamp.com/track/honeycut

― captain snus (electricsound), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 06:41 (1 month ago) Permalink

I've been sort of meaning to pick up the Half String reissue 2xLP thing on CT for awhile now. Do you have that?

― Evan, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 13:44 (1 month ago) Permalink

Of course. I had all the ipr stuff anyway but the extra tracks were cool

― captain snus (electricsound), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 22:14 (1 month ago) Permalink

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