can someone show me a NEW shoegaze band

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

I've really been enjoying the latest from Champaign's Withershins, Mt. Fuji in Blue. It's not exclusively shoegaze, there is some (eek!) post rock in here too, but some really great moments of fuzzed out bliss. The vocals and lyrics can be a bit of a stumbling block, more than once I wished a track was instrumental, but when they really lock in I'm finding this to be pretty compelling, musically anyway.

Yeah that's not shoegaze. I have this weird and probably unfair impulse to reject the shoegaze tag for anything with those shouty college town vocals in it. To me, it gives it away as ex-emo/hardcore or indie players (I'm betraying my age a bit here) who probably bought delay pedals after trying drugs or sexual intercourse. They know who MBV is, for example, but have really no idea why the band is so important.

I guess it's pretty unfair of me because some Estonian black metal/Detroit techno hybrid band could get tagged with shoegaze and I wouldn't bat an eyelash even if they growled Javascript syntax into a vocoder.

Yeah, I get exactly what you mean and it probably isn't shoegaze, but I wasn't sure what other thread to talk about the album in. It's definitely not metal and, despite the vocals, it doesn't fit in with the emo revival thing either.

i'll second Vadaat Charigim, their album from last/this year (or whenever) is sneaky great

uh, make that Vaadat, not Vadaat boy is my face red

this is a local band that seems very indebted to mbv

http://wildhoneysound.bandcamp.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2K5R3sb_NI

got a single of theirs the other day, it's not half bad

Yeah, I get exactly what you mean and it probably isn't shoegaze, but I wasn't sure what other thread to talk about the album in. It's definitely not metal and, despite the vocals, it doesn't fit in with the emo revival thing either.

There's an emo revival? Is there a thread for that? I might lurk.

rolling emo/pop/punk/bullshit/feelings about pizza or something like that. thread rules.

the Vaadat Charigim album is so great.

the upcoming Lees of Memory album is pretty shoegazey. it's the dudes from Superdrag.

full stream here: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2014/09/an_interview_w_75.html

gr8080: Thank you for mentioning Vaadat Charigim. I checked out the album and it's quickly become one of my favorites of the past few years. Nothing particularly groundbreaking about it, but great guitar tone, great songs, tight playing, really nice downer vibe. They seem like interesting dudes, too, based on the few interviews I've read.

i saw a band called Leave The Planet last week, who had all the right ingredients but just kinda mushed them together.

anyway, looking for samples this morning up popped these in the 'related bands' section of one website:

http://www.coctailtwins.com/

WORST. NAME. EVER.

not strictly "shoegaze", but an excellent record from this year that seems likely to appeal to fans of the genre:

https://soundcloud.com/flenserrecords/botanist-rhizophora

Yeah, the Botanist record is gorgeous. Love it.

gr8080: Thank you for mentioning Vaadat Charigim. I checked out the album and it's quickly become one of my favorites of the past few years. Nothing particularly groundbreaking about it, but great guitar tone, great songs, tight playing, really nice downer vibe. They seem like interesting dudes, too, based on the few interviews I've read.

OTM it's been the soundtrack to my autumn '14 so far

2014 Shoegaze World Tour:

Spain: Linda Guilala - Verano (from their Xeristar debut):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpdI7UFmEI8

Rakovník, Czech Republic: Manon Meurt - Glowing Cityscape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkt7_FYBdOw

Warsaw, Poland: Evvolves - Emma (from Hang mini LP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uODiNwxWGgM

St. Petersburg, Russia: Pinkshinyultrablast - Umi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAVYbf9CBL4

Beijing, China:Dear Eloise - Vanishing Winter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loXcgbJGKOA

I kinda like Aerofall (from Russia). This track in particular reminds me of early Moose: https://soundcloud.com/handsandmoment/i-turned-a-blind-eye?in=handsandmoment/sets/aerofall-aerofall

Discovered these guys when I was looking for Stargazer (the metal band):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfh_2a-QWo0

I'm not sure if younghusband exactly count as shoegaze...they sometimes sound like the shoegaze bands just as they started to move into other areas and transcend the genre, but anyway I've been really obsessed with their "Dromes" album of late, which I missed in 2013.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E7-hApWeYY

i have a lot of time for them, the two singles they did before dromes are excellent too. they have gazey elements though i think calling them a shoegaze band is a stretch.

I saw the Stargazer Lilies a year ago - liked them a lot.

Venera 4 from France

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knHC1yUWH60

Stargazer Lilies sound pretty good. Didn't realise they were a followup after Soundpool.

Still hoping to hear a dreampop band with ambitious symphonic structures.

really enjoying the pinkshinyultrablast album. not a shred of anything new or original really but it does sound very lovely

Me too on pinkshinyultrablast. Also maimaiscripting. These two could tour as a lexical double-bill...

i cant really find a thread where ppl talked about whirr except this one so excuse the derail

being contacted about booking whirr - not sure what all was up with that whole shitstorm except that they made fun of a dude for having the last name "lemmon" and called people pussies a lot. was there a lot of homophobia or sexism going down? should i avoid these ppl?

i cant look at tumblr at work which is apparently where all this shit is being archived, curated and commented on, so

one interview deep and they sound like massively tedious people at the absolute least so avoid away

yeah p sure im gonna pass

https://soundcloud.com/vaadat-charigim/ein-li-makom-1

new Vaadat Charigim. pretty awesome.

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

they've got a new album out next month (this is the lead single).

new and very good Vaadat Charigim:

https://soundcloud.com/vaadat-charigim/hashiamum-shokea/s-lx2oE

I see Venera 4 was mentioned a little bit upthread, but this album is amaze!

http://venera4band.bandcamp.com/album/eid-lon

If you need me, I'll be listening to this and nothing else for the next two weeks.

I am still working through my first listen of Eidôlon and HOLY SHIT this band is breaking my heart they're so good.

^ this is great

YAY! Love Venera 4. Love the new album. Love that folks are discovering them.

thanks, great recommendation.

jeez, this is really shoegaze

kinda the precise intersection of schnauss the cure and a.m.p. who's with me here

I like Nothing, local (for me) Philly boys on local (for me) metal label Relapse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9UIdlXhrBQ

^ thinking about seeing them live, could see their show either being great or real boring/samey... recommended?

Unfortunately I have yet to see them live other than an acoustic in-store they did for Record Store Day this past weekend but it was nice enough for that sort of thing, though I wished it was a bit louder.

That ain't shoegaze. That's Hum worship.

You're not a Fever. You're barely a cold.

Don't shoot the messenger, friend.

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You and Noisey both can call them a shoegaze band, but that doesn't make them one. Unless you also think Hum were a shoegaze band, in which case the world has gone to hell.

It's not one or the other, though. It's got a good amount of both elements.