― Nihilist Pop Star (mjt), Saturday, 13 December 2003 22:47 (twenty years ago) link
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Saturday, 13 December 2003 22:56 (twenty years ago) link
this thread is good now
― the surface noise (electricsound), Saturday, 13 December 2003 22:57 (twenty years ago) link
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:09 (twenty years ago) link
― dlp9001, Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:13 (twenty years ago) link
www.theearlies.com
― the priest, Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:14 (twenty years ago) link
― the priest, Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:18 (twenty years ago) link
I will now check out melodic.com
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:26 (twenty years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:58 (twenty years ago) link
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 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Mirov (nick), Sunday, 14 December 2003 02:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Sunday, 14 December 2003 04:40 (twenty years ago) link
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 (twenty years ago) link
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:56 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Sunday, 14 December 2003 08:13 (twenty years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 14 December 2003 08:49 (twenty years ago) link
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Sunday, 14 December 2003 22:57 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 14 December 2003 22:58 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 14 December 2003 22:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Sunday, 14 December 2003 23:37 (twenty years ago) link
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 (twenty years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:08 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:09 (twenty years ago) link
Everyone should hear the new For Against.
― JC (JC A.), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:24 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:29 (twenty years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:35 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:45 (twenty years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 15 December 2003 05:38 (twenty years ago) link
Also Trespassers William, whose cover of Ride's "Vapour Trail" is gorgeous and a fair sign of how they sound in general.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 15 December 2003 15:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Monday, 15 December 2003 17:19 (twenty years ago) link
― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Monday, 15 December 2003 19:21 (twenty years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 15 December 2003 19:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Michael Patrick Brady (Michael Patrick Brady), Monday, 15 December 2003 19:25 (twenty years ago) link
― desolert (desolate), Monday, 15 December 2003 19:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Palomino (Palomino), Monday, 15 December 2003 20:42 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 21:02 (twenty years ago) link
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:06 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:09 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:10 (twenty years ago) link
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:36 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:38 (twenty years ago) link
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:44 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:48 (twenty years ago) link
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:55 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 05:07 (twenty years ago) link
pepe(vocalist of weedisneys)tnx!
― jose m lozano II, Monday, 12 April 2004 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link
Clairecords is the biggest shoegaze label out there at the moment, or for the past 5 years for that matter. They also run Tonevendor, the biggest mailorder for the related genres. Just look at some of the bands they've released.
Monster Movie (ex-slowdive)Astrobrite (loveliescrushing)Highspire MaloryAirielThe Ecstasy of St. TheresaPaikStella LunaElectro GroupCon DoloreMahogonyPia FrausSciflyerHartfield, Air Formationetc.
You want bands not on Claire?
Ulrich SchnaussM83the Meeting PlacesExperimental AircraftSkywavethe Emerald DownLandingWhirlawayAlcian BlueBethany CurveVoyager 1
That's just about everyone you need to know that's been doing good shoegaze type stuff over the past 5 years.
― Valerie Kessig, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link
somewhat related to the revive Cigarettes After Sex
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 16:52 (three months ago) link
speaking of Rex, tho not a shoegaze band— the Numero reissue of “C” this year was my intro to them, i fuck with this stuff so hard.as far as the HTNT record— I like it a lot but I do sense some really weird production issues. the bass is muddy af, and at times the vocals are much more buried than at others— really inconsistent production-wise. that said i still think it’s an excellent record
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 16:52 (three months ago) link
...submit button problem
It's kinda cool how with any scene or movement, some bands' reputations bubble up with subsequent generations. Also, originators don't always become the ones who resonate the longest.
― bendy, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 16:54 (three months ago) link
"ignored at the time of release, so and so was discovered years later by collectors and quickly developed a massive cult following" is hardly a new phenomenon
― Evan, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 16:59 (three months ago) link
imago, you listen to Beyond Dawn? such a weird discography. i figured if anyone did here it would be you. cuz you weirdo. i've been listening to the last album on vinyl. they started out as 90s norwegian metal and then ended up being...whatever it is they ended up being.
this is from the last album. which is why i thought of you. hahaha!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQnu8KW1MVk
― scott seward, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 17:56 (three months ago) link
even in the mid-90s they were already weird:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c4UceAHwqo
their first tape was this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvPXREnG7dY
― scott seward, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 17:57 (three months ago) link
anyhoo, carry on shoegazing shoegeezers!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 17:58 (three months ago) link
Ooh ty will give that a whirl!
All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavours are the great underrated 90s shoegaze band and Kairon; IRSE the great underrated one now, among others ofc
Cigarettes After Sex are the single worst band in the world. I hate them with a passion you can only guess at
― imago, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 18:00 (three months ago) link
(and if you want something in between those eras, Coaltar Of The Deepers should be much, much bigger with The Kids than they are imo!)
― imago, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 18:01 (three months ago) link
kairon; irse is proggier/psychier than any of the original blend shoegaze bands imo. good stuff tho
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 18:04 (three months ago) link
speaking of 'we have [x] at home', this Bloody Comeback song is Ulver at home lol (I am enjoying it)
― imago, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 18:06 (three months ago) link
but yeah where are the kids trying to sound like this ;_;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlJwXe4dmSc
― imago, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 18:23 (three months ago) link
i still have my copy of turning into small. such a great mesh of my stereolab valentine. thy did it best in the states.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 18:32 (three months ago) link
have put Frysh on, it's sounding quite interesting, excellent Y2Kwave (see also that one Fireside album)
― imago, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 18:36 (three months ago) link
we are however massively off-topic lol
Pitchfork w/their 2023 shoegaze revival articlehttps://pitchfork.com/features/article/the-shoegaze-revival-hit-its-stride-in-2023/
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 28 December 2023 03:04 (three months ago) link
It has long seemed to me like the shoegaze approach to rock that has never dated or gone on a downswing, unlike the genres that it rose from -- goth, jangle, NYC noise, post-hardcore. Maybe because it has always sat in a sweet spot just below mainstream, accumulating interest as listeners age into it, hooks always buried enough you have to search for them. I don't really associate it with a generation or a wave. Like, when the UK music press tossed it aside, it was just getting going in the US.
― bendy, Thursday, 28 December 2023 16:23 (three months ago) link
I remember feeling a bit superior about that at the time, the landmark MBV/Ride/Slowdive albums had been and gone - with just the occasional mention of the term as an arch callback to its original put-down usage - and then the US was all “hay guys I looooove shoegaze” and lots of not-really-relevant or second-rate bands being picked up seemingly at random.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 28 December 2023 16:58 (three months ago) link
i was way into it and it woulda happened if it wasn’t for that meddling grunge. but all grunge did was push shoegaze just under the surface where it’s festered and now it is a wonderful ubiquitous toxic algae bloom.
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Thursday, 28 December 2023 22:05 (three months ago) link
Concrete Avalanche posts a pretty good intro guide to Chinese shoegaze https://jakenewby.substack.com/p/a-beginners-guide-to-chinese-shoegaze
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 22 February 2024 03:14 (one month ago) link