can someone show me a NEW shoegaze band

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Also www.melodic.com - the new compilation of 'tracks for horses' includes some mighty fine orchestrated dream pop. worth checking out.

― the priest, Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks Priest, but if you know these guys tell em' to lengthen their clips. If you can't hear a chorus on a clip then...

I will now check out melodic.com

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

i think this thread shoudl be about wombedelia, not shoegazing. shoegazing just means lots of effects pedals and vague lyricism right? there is bound to be overlap into several other "genres".

― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

MT..what should I be looking at masstransfer?

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.

― Nihilist Pop Star (mjt), Sunday, 14 December 2003 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Shoegazer Revival - S/D

― Nick Mirov (nick), Sunday, 14 December 2003 02:36 (twenty-two years ago)

You might like to check out some of the cassette-only releases on the Best Kept Secret label. http://www.indiepages.com/bestkeptsecret/.

― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Sunday, 14 December 2003 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

you'd probably like Readymade too.

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

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 14 December 2003 05:46 (twenty-two years ago)

give me some days to digest this lot y'all.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:56 (twenty-two years ago)

yellow6

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Sunday, 14 December 2003 08:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Readymade's latest album, 'On Point and Red', is wonderful for this. Also, a Seattle band called The Melody Unit, who definitely take the dream-pop side, but are wonderful. Look into their 7-minute songs, 'April New Year' and 'Suite for Caesar', but really, their entire 'Choose Your Own Adventure' album.

― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 14 December 2003 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

didnt like Yellow6 at all.

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

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

The Ides of Space, I guess.

Everyone should hear the new For Against.

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

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

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

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-two years ago)

yeah that's them.

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

suntan

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

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

A Northern Chorus

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

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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

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

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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

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

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

I'll find em.

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

Someone has to say: nugaze.

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

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-two years ago)

Nu-gaze. Im workin on it.

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

three months pass...

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

Appleseed Cast

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

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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Shoegazey Pie

― Mark G, Friday, 5 December 2025 07:08 (six months ago)

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.

― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2025 14:54 (six months ago)

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?

― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 December 2025 19:06 (six months ago)

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

― Ubiquitor, Friday, 5 December 2025 19:16 (six months ago)

It made #25 on Pitchfork best rock album list too

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 6 December 2025 00:43 (six months ago)

one month passes...

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.

― a tv star not a dirty computer man (the table is the table), Monday, 2 February 2026 22:43 (four months ago)

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.

― Bee OK, Wednesday, 4 February 2026 04:54 (four months ago)

one month passes...

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

― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 18 March 2026 23:51 (two months ago)

https://skymender.bandcamp.com/

― omar little, Thursday, 19 March 2026 01:15 (two months ago)

one month passes...

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/

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 8 May 2026 22:15 (one month ago)

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

― bendy, Wednesday, 20 May 2026 12:39 (two weeks ago)

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.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 May 2026 13:47 (two weeks ago)

Great great great. It's all great!

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 May 2026 13:47 (two weeks ago)

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

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 May 2026 14:03 (two weeks ago)

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

― put a peptide in your step (Hunt3r), Thursday, 21 May 2026 09:26 (two weeks ago)

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