can someone show me a NEW shoegaze band

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9ozazHKXLg

Very cool! I like it, thanks!

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.

Have we mentioned Whirr yet?

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

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

http://hammockmusic.com/departure-songs

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjIWriDTptY

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"

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rENnKECnfs

just wanted to say this Hammock album is incredible

Knew you would love it.

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

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

Wish the timelapse went on longer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w9EiRIXtE8

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.

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/

The headline is correct. For better or worse.

would the besnard lakes fall into this category?

Need emphasis:

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

that article was pretty bad in a couple of ways

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

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.

this is nice

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

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

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

would the besnard lakes fall into this category?

Finally got around to listening to their new album after seeing them at Austin Psych Fest, and yeah - they fall into this. This is the most Slowdivey thing I've heard in years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXTVedMZTL0

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), Thursday, April 18, 2013 9:22 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is on spotify and is really good

I picked up Ghost Blonde by them not long ago. Is the new one better?

Wait To Pleasure is one of my favourite albums of the year so far... so, yes :D

New Exit Calm single. I love the Verve too, but sheesh...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExRI5AQ8xUE

Did the Besnard Lakes improve a bit or something? They always seemed kinda there.

Currently getting my attention is Eros and the Eschaton, about to release a debut album. Got some earlier tracks up on their Bandcamp site:

http://goldenhearts.bandcamp.com/album/songs

And more info here:

http://www.theunderbellyofthesun.org/Eros_and_the_Eschaton/aum_mani_padme_hum.html

https://www.facebook.com/erosandtheeschaton

Been listening to the album this morning -- nice take on the whole American homegrown 'gaze/couple approach, and some actually loud/twisted/violent moments with a few curve balls along the way. It's a good start rather than something truly remarkable, but it IS good.

Did the Besnard Lakes improve a bit or something? They always seemed kinda there.

Ran across them in Austin and dug what they were doing. I think the new album is a keeper.

there was a p big jump in their songwriting from dark horse to roaring night imo

Giving the new one a listen now, it does seem more intriguing. Maybe they just needed their woodshedding phase.

Lovesilkpalemilk might be a little too post-punk, but bits of the latest album/ep/whatever (on Paradigms) are like Garlands era Cocteau Twins in places.

a couple of new(ish) aussie ones i love

roku music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmbEG4_kY1E

flyying colours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G12Itbv0q8s

actually i should have put this one for FC. love this so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9wnpiiMUJs

Second song is great!

Seconded, nice track.

they played flyying colours wavygravy on bbc radio6 last week.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03xpcr8

Deifnitely like them better than the other Flying Colors (the Mike Portnoy, Neal Morse pop-prog supergroup).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btqggj8cWFU

^Wish there was an entire album that sounded like this.

Yeah that could be their best song.

i think i like the Cheatahs album a very great deal

This one seems promising, though I've only listened a little. Jetman Jet Team. Definitely have the sound down, I just haven't had time to live with the songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn-3ejk2KiM

Vaadat Charigim - terrific Israeli neo shoegaze!

Another vote for Cheetahs - 'the Swan' especially

Yeah, I've ended up liking the Cheatahs album a lot more than I thought I would. Also really liking the Flyying Colours, so thank for that rec, above.

I recently heard a great track from 2011 in a Songza playlist by The Golden Awesome who I'd never heard of. Facebook page shows some relatively recent live activity but no mention of new music. A quick sample of their album makes it sound promising though:

http://thegoldenawesomenz.bandcamp.com