can someone show me a NEW shoegaze band

No Joy's Wait To Pleasure (April 23) gets the advance streaming treatment on Pitchfork this week.

I think thisthreaders will find much to like.

― Me So Hormetic (Sanpaku), Thursday, April 18, 2013 9:22 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is on spotify and is really good

I picked up Ghost Blonde by them not long ago. Is the new one better?

Wait To Pleasure is one of my favourite albums of the year so far... so, yes :D

New Exit Calm single. I love the Verve too, but sheesh...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExRI5AQ8xUE

Did the Besnard Lakes improve a bit or something? They always seemed kinda there.

Currently getting my attention is Eros and the Eschaton, about to release a debut album. Got some earlier tracks up on their Bandcamp site:

http://goldenhearts.bandcamp.com/album/songs

And more info here:

http://www.theunderbellyofthesun.org/Eros_and_the_Eschaton/aum_mani_padme_hum.html

https://www.facebook.com/erosandtheeschaton

Been listening to the album this morning -- nice take on the whole American homegrown 'gaze/couple approach, and some actually loud/twisted/violent moments with a few curve balls along the way. It's a good start rather than something truly remarkable, but it IS good.

Did the Besnard Lakes improve a bit or something? They always seemed kinda there.

Ran across them in Austin and dug what they were doing. I think the new album is a keeper.

there was a p big jump in their songwriting from dark horse to roaring night imo

Giving the new one a listen now, it does seem more intriguing. Maybe they just needed their woodshedding phase.

Lovesilkpalemilk might be a little too post-punk, but bits of the latest album/ep/whatever (on Paradigms) are like Garlands era Cocteau Twins in places.

a couple of new(ish) aussie ones i love

roku music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmbEG4_kY1E

flyying colours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G12Itbv0q8s

actually i should have put this one for FC. love this so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9wnpiiMUJs

Second song is great!

Seconded, nice track.

they played flyying colours wavygravy on bbc radio6 last week.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03xpcr8

Deifnitely like them better than the other Flying Colors (the Mike Portnoy, Neal Morse pop-prog supergroup).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btqggj8cWFU

^Wish there was an entire album that sounded like this.

Yeah that could be their best song.

i think i like the Cheatahs album a very great deal

This one seems promising, though I've only listened a little. Jetman Jet Team. Definitely have the sound down, I just haven't had time to live with the songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn-3ejk2KiM

Vaadat Charigim - terrific Israeli neo shoegaze!

Another vote for Cheetahs - 'the Swan' especially

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