can someone show me a NEW shoegaze band

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didnt like Yellow6 at all.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Sunday, 14 December 2003 22:57 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

The Ides of Space, I guess.

Everyone should hear the new For Against.

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

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

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

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 (twenty years ago) link

yeah that's them.

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

suntan

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

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 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

A Northern Chorus

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

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 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

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

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

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 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

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

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:36 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

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 (twenty years ago) link

I'll find em.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 04:54 (twenty years ago) link

Someone has to say: nugaze.

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

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 (twenty years ago) link

Nu-gaze. Im workin on it.

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

three months pass...

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

Appleseed Cast

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

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Fennesz

― mas, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:23 (nineteen years ago) link

There's a decent shoegaze band from Montreal called "Marlowe".

― daavid (daavid), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Curt: i think it's fair to say that Mahogany, Malory and Paik are the top of the Claire heap... but i like their "sound" so much that i end up enjoying everything they put out anyway.

For Against are SO underrated..

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link

ESOJ OTM on that last point.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

it seems to me the best new shoegaze band out there right now is "the Rep". It's one thing to copy old, superior shoegaze bands and come close yet inevitably fail, but it's another to make shoegaze sound new again. I really think "the Rep" does that. Their album isnt available until July 15th, so I havent heard all of it, but what i've gotten from file sharing is awesome! The best place to hear them is probably www.purevolume.com/therep. Keep in touch y'all!

― eduardo menendez, Friday, 25 June 2004 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link

it seems to ME that youre somehow involved with that band...

thats what i think.

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 25 June 2004 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link

ENFENETEE

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link

My new favorite band is "Street Team".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, they are great! They're still a big secret and I don't know why, but they're about to blow up! I love their website too!!

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link

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Pitchfork w/their 2023 shoegaze revival article
https://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

one month passes...

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

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