can someone show me a NEW shoegaze band

this thread is good now

www.theearlies.com

I will now check out melodic.com

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.

Readymade isn't exactly new. They were sending out annoying promo stuff 6/7 years ago.

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.

Everyone should hear the new For Against.

Also Trespassers William, whose cover of Ride's "Vapour Trail" is gorgeous and a fair sign of how they sound in general.

pepe(vocalist of weedisneys)
tnx!

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.

I've been enjoying this new Just Mustard album, it's shoegaze-adjacent at the very least

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7HAwqQ99Eg

I went to see Drop Nineteens last night (obv not "new") and one of the openers was a band called Sweet 93. They were actually really good if a bit annoying onstage (I feel like guitar players in new bands move around too much), but the singer had a fantastic voice, particularly after one of the other opening bands (She's Green). Googled when I got home and went down a weird rabbit hole.

The singer's name is Chloe. Google AI summary then told me her name was Chloe Kohanski, from Nashville, who was also a winner on the Voice (which I have never watched). I looked at some photos of her and assumed this had to be some AI confusion; wiki for Chloe Kohanski mentions nothing about Sweet 93. Chloe Kohanski has an instagram with no mention of Sweet 93, but hasn't been updated in years. Sweet 93 instagram says nothing of the name Chloe Kohanski. Pictures of Kohanski from the Voice looked like an older woman with little resemblance to the person I saw last night who, admittedly, wore a parka hood her entire time on stage and most of the night when she was standing in front of me during the Drop 19's set and drunkenly carousing with her bandmates. AND YET, the more I dug, I realized that yes, in fact, this was the same person. She clearly won on the voice, moved to NYC, and started making lo-fi shoegaze music and 100% changed everything about her appearance and seems to have done what she can to dissasociate her current persona from her previous one.

Anyway, her one album that is out on streaming is good but not as good as what they played live; half of the set kind of sounded like the track The Pink Room from Twin Peaks/David Lynch/Badalementi's Thought Gang album, the other half was more shoegazey. Anyway, I thought they were pretty good.

Don't know anything about Sister Ray Davies, but they're laying down some heavy Slowdive vibes in the sample track here:

https://sisterraydavies.bandcamp.com/album/holy-island

Future Nostalgia, pay-what-you-want Norwegian shoegaze:
https://futurenostalgia.bandcamp.com/album/mellow

A year or more late I am finally listening to They are Gutting a Body of Water. I kinda like some of it.

I kinda like some of it.

bold

Shoegazey Pie

Destiny XL is the only one I really love by them for whatever reason. Not like the others are much different or necessarily weaker or anything though.

Caramanica just put the 2025 They Are Gutting a Body of Water album Lotto at 5th on his NY Times best of list today. He says it's "by far its most robust and challenging." I just listened to it for the first time yesterday while doing junk around the house, so yeah, no bold take from me yet. Oh well. Can I get a late pass?

One of my favorites of the year, as well. Leans a bit heavier into the Blue Smiley-type guitar sounds than previous releases imo, but great songwriting and some really lovely melodies throughout.

violence iii probably my favorite track

It made #25 on Pitchfork best rock album list too

admittedly glad that most outlets thought the Hotline TNT album from 2025 was as much of a stinker as we seemed to think it was. certainly the biggest musical disappointment of 2025 in retrospect.

I even started a Hotline TNT thread this last year but got little traction. I did nominate the album but couldn't justify voting for it so I didn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYCBi9qmJCk

https://skymender.bandcamp.com/

I ran across this lady's work on instagram and unlike most of the shoegaze/dreampop stuff I see on instagram I think she her songs are really good. Recommended if you liked Swallow.

https://laurenlakis.bandcamp.com/

Saw Mint Field and while I like the records the loud/soft digital/analog dynamics are another level live.

Yeah they're great live indeed.

Saw a pretty great quadruple lineup that's touring the other week: trauma ray, Glixen, Keep and Money. Glixen were what I was there for in particular and they were very great.

Great great great. It's all great!

Meantime, not as new, but Gnoomes are back for the first time in a while and the new single is excellent slow burn psychgaze.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-frip_Bzas

Nice, perfect for my current location in a tent amidst the sage and juniper, and all i can hear are the jumping mice and all i see when i look outside— well the moon is down, it’s just the dark and all the stars