can someone show me a NEW shoegaze band

gotta pick that up. the lea shores album that just came out is super lovely too

i probably mentioned it on the rolling indie thread but the SPC ECO album is really really lovely.

was disappointed by the 2nd fleeting joys record. songs maybe a little less weak than the first but they seemed to have ditched trying to sound like mbv for sounding like lenola instead

beyond that things seem to be pretty quiet in shoegaze land, at least as far as i'm aware

love the drums on "shine on down"

cant find it anywhere tho, just copping myspace streams

tis on emusic and also sh0egaz3ralive

i like SPC ECO, but arent they really a 1 by 1 copy-paste band of 90's shoegaze?
they do it good - yes, but totally nothing that you havent heard before.

you're on a thread about a genre that's been endlessly retreading itself for nearly 20 years

i don't know if that's an especially compelling criticism

you know what'd be good, is shoegaze-meets-baltimore club

haha jk i think i'd kill myself and all of u

good point, though still - there are some acts who succeeded in performing the genre with a new ,interesting angle.

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no argument here. i certainly would never claim that most of these bands are anything close to original. they just all happen to have a sound that pushes the right buttons for me..

of course, were they getting large amounts of hype on p4k, i would be hating on them so fast

also looooool haitch

http://www.divshare.com/download/8914303-d59

hand programmed electrogaze action. maybe someone will like it- maybe even Jim. it sounds better hella loud and when drinking. not a bmore club thang.

turn drums down and everything else up and you've got a winner

i have shitty eq gear but i get you, jim. winner? thanks.

Yeah, good job. What electric sound said... I would add even more distortion, and how about a melody?

Thanks, The supposed vocalist never showed up.....supposed to provide the melody part. Dude said like too upbeat.

I wanna hear tunes from ilxors now...guh.

you be wanting this thread: What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

For sure. But I created this thread so I figured to add to it.

The sample used by Engineers on Three Fact Fader is of Watussi by Harmonia.

You can all rest easy now.

new Malory single is gorgeous

also i am now really digging the depreciation guild album

Depreciation guild Is a lot of fun. Sorta Labrador records-ish. I downloaded the new Malory record maybe I should listen but they've been on a slow decline since the debut album.

When I read this I realized I have a copy of that Depreciation Guild album I haven't listened to. It sounds good (pretty- clear vinyl too).

The sample used by Engineers on Three Fact Fader is of Watussi by Harmonia.

Yeah this actually got me off my butt and listening to Harmonia and Cluster albums.

is the brother kite ever gonna release another lp?

I always wondered what shoegaze meant. So many bands fit in that genre or maybe not but they were labeled as such. Kind of like how I feel when I go on Emusic and see shit like Fort Lauterdale and MGMT listed as "punk"... I'm beginning to think genres no longer have any meaning other than what is perceived as cool and marketable. Kids grow up on something called "punk" and so they think they're punk because they were influenced by it, but in reality they are more appropriately labeled as neo psychedelia or something.

shit gaze.

i mean stuff like Blank Dogs. is the new shoe gaze. i don't want "feel good" abstract electric guitar pop. i want damaged abject dirty lo-fi noise.

Brother kite's album is done. Seems like they are trying to figure out how to release it. The samples were uninspiring.

yeah i remembered your comment from months ago. i heard some of the early mixes. hope they figured out how to save it.

any thoughts on the Exit Calm album? i like the sounds a lot, but the guy's voice seems a little out of place. a little Vedderish at times.

Shoegrunge?

that makes me think of catherine wheel for some reason

I'm into the Ghost Society album, which is probably technically more dreampoppy than shoegazery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtFsSjxun20

^ - boy these sort of bands have looked and dressed the same for 20 years, no style never going out of style.

Here's a pleasant, and potentially exhausting, trip down memory lane for anyone who grew up on this stuff/read the Melody Maker 90-93/attended lots of North London gigs.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/group.php?gid=125551254127044&ref=ts

The photo section has lots of interesting comments.

I'm honestly not sure what to think about this:

it can arguably be said that the music scene in and around Camden Town, London during the late 1980's - early 1990's was one of the last scenes to emerge and grow in any kind of organic way. Back then you could sell 12,000 EPs and still be nobody- that kind of behavior would put you in the Top 10 these days

bullshit really

Girl bass player never going out of style either apparently.

not so sure about this second serena maneesh record (and never got into the first one).

the first one was pretty weak imo - there's no 'drain cosmetics' on this record but i think it's better overall

crash city saints album pretty good - quite a bit more lively than your usual MBV ripoffs.. there's bits of curve, raveonettes, early velocity girl etc in there. nothing even remotely original but a lovely listen

nothing even remotely original but a lovely listen

The more original the nu-shoegaze/dreampop band, the less interested I am. It's one of the only genres of rock I can think of that I don't want fucked around with and modernized in any way.

That problem is, that approach is how you end up with bands like Air Formation.

johnny fever you completely baffle me sometimes

It's one of the only genres of rock I can think of that I don't want fucked around with and modernized in any way.

I kinda agree with the sentiment- but it has happened and will always happen. See new synth-hop.

New High Violets record is pretty good. Working with Schnauss on that remix album seems to have helped.

Estonia seems to keep putting out a new clutch of good 'gaze types -- thus these folks:

http://www.myspace.com/imandralake

Nother new Engineers album: this one has Ulrich Schnauss's paw prints all over it which could be good or really bad. I'm liking the single/prerelease track, but if its a whole album of that I might be a bit "umm..."

Prids latest album is closer to that dreampoppy Silversun Pickups style (boy/girl harmonies, buzzy guitar washes) than their earlier goth work fwiw.