can someone show me a NEW shoegaze band

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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

words on music is supposed to release that comp with a bunch of bands all covering 'outdoor miner'. i wonder when that will see the light of day. Motion Picture is pretty dull, I haven't heard anything else on the label. oh wait, i've heard Coastal and they were dreary and uninspiring.

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:08 (9 years ago) Permalink

i like Coastal and i looove Should. i'm quite keen to hear the new For Against too. quite a few of the albums on WoM are on eBay for $8 apiece brand new (it's the label owner selling them)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

The Ides of Space, I guess.

Everyone should hear the new For Against.

― JC (JC A.), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:24 (9 years ago) Permalink

sydney band Tides are quite gazey, and their demo EP promises very much.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:29 (9 years ago) Permalink

did should used to be called shift? i liked them, fortunate hazel made me a tape a long time ago.

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:35 (9 years ago) Permalink

yeah that's them.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:45 (9 years ago) Permalink

suntan

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 15 December 2003 05:38 (9 years ago) Permalink

Ulrich Schnauss seconded - A Strangely Isolated Place is fab.

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 (9 years ago) Permalink

Monster Movie. Former Slowdive folks. Gorgeous. "Last Night I Dreamt Something Happened" is, I think, the name of their full-length. They have a self-titled 5 track EP that is AMAZING and a split single with Dreamend that is nice too. Seek!

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Monday, 15 December 2003 17:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

a band called Charlene put out an extremely kick-ass s/t shoegazing record this year. They're from Boston, they opened for that heinous Mark Gardner solo tour.

― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Monday, 15 December 2003 19:21 (9 years ago) Permalink

wussom*pow!, from san francisco, who have one album out, have a really nice twee/shoegaze crossover thing going on.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 15 December 2003 19:24 (9 years ago) Permalink

A Northern Chorus

― Michael Patrick Brady (Michael Patrick Brady), Monday, 15 December 2003 19:25 (9 years ago) Permalink

Holy shite, that Malory's debut album, Not Here Not Now, is nothing short of magnificent. Is it still out of print? Does anyone know if it'll be rereleased? It needs to.

― desolert (desolate), Monday, 15 December 2003 19:42 (9 years ago) Permalink

Hot damn, I've just been listening to Chapterhouse's Pearl, and it still seems almost as lovely as when I first heard it back in '91. S'gotta be the version with Rachel Slowdive's backing vox, though. Mmm. What a babe. Hey, has anybody got a scan of that NME poster of her dressed as Rambo?

― Palomino (Palomino), Monday, 15 December 2003 20:42 (9 years ago) Permalink

clairecords are planning to reissue Malory's debut in the new year

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 21:02 (9 years ago) Permalink

Does any remember Autohaze? Mostly released through Summershine out of Australia. More neo-rock/folk but blow me away everytime I hear Hey!

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:06 (9 years ago) Permalink

i remember them very well. released three great-to-fantastic singles and a lovely mini-album before drowning in a pit of dull Neil Youngisms.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

their debut single (along with much released on Summershine) is one of melbourne's proudest moments

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:10 (9 years ago) Permalink

Thank you. They are one of my favorite bands EVER.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:36 (9 years ago) Permalink

interesting! are you familiar with the summershine catalogue in its entirety? i was in the right place at the right time and have everything jason released.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:38 (9 years ago) Permalink

I always wanted to be more interested with the label. The few I heard I cannot really pull back into memory but I would always love to get re-aquainted. I really was a Autohaze freak. What else do you have to offer Mr. Surface?

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:44 (9 years ago) Permalink

if we're talking about australian stuff specifically, the Afterglow "fall behind" 7" is a corker (and the only good thing they ever did). all the Jupiter stuff is great (and all compiled on the "Arum" CD). anything by the Earthmen that summershine released is pretty good stuff too, although that veers into standard indierock in the later stuff.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:48 (9 years ago) Permalink

I'll find em.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:54 (9 years ago) Permalink

Someone has to say: nugaze.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:55 (9 years ago) Permalink

also the Truck Train Tractor 45 is the second best record released by an Adelaide band (the best being "More Than Happy" by the Mandelbrot Set, which is without doubt the best dreampop record Australia ever produced)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:55 (9 years ago) Permalink

Nu-gaze. Im workin on it.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 05:07 (9 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

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― jose m lozano II, Monday, 12 April 2004 15:16 (9 years ago) Permalink

Appleseed Cast

― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

I agree with whoever said "fucking clairecords people"!

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
Malory
Airiel
The Ecstasy of St. Theresa
Paik
Stella Luna
Electro Group
Con Dolore
Mahogony
Pia Fraus
Sciflyer
Hartfield,
Air Formation
etc.

You want bands not on Claire?

Ulrich Schnauss
M83
the Meeting Places
Experimental Aircraft
Skywave
the Emerald Down
Landing
Whirlaway
Alcian Blue
Bethany Curve
Voyager 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 (9 years ago) Permalink

Appreciated, Valerie...but just about all those bands were mentioned one way or another already. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 13:25 (9 years ago) Permalink

I was pretty pumped about checking out all the Claire Records bands, but god, most of them turned out to be dull. In the end, Mahogany is about the only one of the bunch I find truly memorable (oh, maybe Paik or Malory). And so, I'm not at all expecting to be let down by the next Mahogany album when it finally comes out after about a two year delay.

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:36 (9 years ago) Permalink

Skywave deserve to get mentioned again & again. mix bits of J&MC and live MBV and Ride and Motorhead and actually give them melodies and off you go.

they have some samples here which i cannot understate how much they should be listened to.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:05 (9 years ago) Permalink

Skywave is a good band. They're the real heirs to the Psychocandy throne, not BRMC.

I really like Ulrich Schnauss. Electro IDM-ish shoegaze.

Highspire's currently my favorite out of the bunch. Their new cd is really great. I find myself humming some of their hooks a lot.

I find Bethany Curve and Voyager 1 a bit to inaccessible for my tastes. Good music to go to sleep to though.

― Valerie Kessig, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:53 (9 years ago) Permalink

new NYC band Psychic Ills aren't far off...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:32 (9 years ago) Permalink

Please don't call Coldplay shoegazer. They're not. They don't have the wall of fuzzy sound, the vocals buried way underneath, and almost more importantly, you don't have to struggle to understand the lyrics. I have nothing against Coldplay, but please...

I think shoegaze is a pretty boring concept nowadays (I went to this gig a few years ago where they gave out this compilation CD of lots of new shoegazer bands and they all sucked) but I did like the last Voyager One album "Monster Zero".

― bimble (bimble), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:21 (9 years ago) Permalink

Voyager One is actually one of the more 'eh okay' bands to my ears, but I haven't heard the album in a while.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:06 (9 years ago) Permalink

Fennesz

― mas, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:23 (9 years ago) Permalink

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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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