can someone show me a NEW shoegaze band

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Nu-gaze. Im workin on it.

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

three months pass...

try hearing our music.and feel free to let us know....wee sound!
search for weedisneys.

pepe(vocalist of weedisneys)
tnx!

― 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)

Voyager One is actually one of the more 'eh okay' bands to my ears, but I haven't heard the album in a while.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Fennesz

― mas, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a decent shoegaze band from Montreal called "Marlowe".

― daavid (daavid), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Curt: i think it's fair to say that Mahogany, Malory and Paik are the top of the Claire heap... but i like their "sound" so much that i end up enjoying everything they put out anyway.

For Against are SO underrated..

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

ESOJ OTM on that last point.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

it seems to me the best new shoegaze band out there right now is "the Rep". It's one thing to copy old, superior shoegaze bands and come close yet inevitably fail, but it's another to make shoegaze sound new again. I really think "the Rep" does that. Their album isnt available until July 15th, so I havent heard all of it, but what i've gotten from file sharing is awesome! The best place to hear them is probably www.purevolume.com/therep. Keep in touch y'all!

― eduardo menendez, Friday, 25 June 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

it seems to ME that youre somehow involved with that band...

thats what i think.

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 25 June 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

ENFENETEE

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

My new favorite band is "Street Team".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, they are great! They're still a big secret and I don't know why, but they're about to blow up! I love their website too!!

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, clairecords stuff is kind of hit and miss. the Con Dolore is good, the first Isobella record i like a whole lot (avoid the second one), and the Secret Shine reissue is obviously super.

Check out words-on-music.com all the stuff they put out is solid. Should aren't exactly new but both of their albums are super great (not exactly shoegaze but close enough). Meeting Places are good too. Avoid Motion Picture.

― brontosaur, Friday, 25 June 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

DONT HATE THE PLAYA...
HATE THE GAME!!!

― sexxxyChances, Friday, 25 June 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

dragon city: http://www.plainparade.org/dragon_city/

they're nice kids.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 25 June 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

sexxxxxyPRANCESDANCESCHANCES has become one of my favorite posters!

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 25 June 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I second the Monster Movie recommendation. While lacking the noisy wall of sound most of the time (which is kind of a prerequisite to shoegaze imo), the torrent does occasionally show up in force. Rhythmically, their music retains a strong shoegaze vibe. Like Mira or Con Dolore, the music isn't quite shoegaze but it packs a lot of the same appeal.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Friday, 25 June 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

My new all-time favorite new-shoegaze album: The Great Depression - Unconscious Pilot on Fire Records. Midwest band that reminds me of most of vintage Telescopes. Nice balance of drifty atmospherics and tighter songs. Jim and Ned, you should check it out if you haven't already.

― Curt (cgould), Saturday, 26 June 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

you're only 16, you don't have a rep yet!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 26 June 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

clair records are nice people and their mail order is great but most of their releases do fall on the dull side of the fence. highspire is actually on the dreadful side. mahogany, pia fraus, malory-that's about it. american kids don't really do shoegazing all that well, mahogany is surely more inspired by 4ad/factory than chapterhouse. the monster movie debut ep was terrible, i heard he whispers on the album though, is that true? because he can't sing.

― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 26 June 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

highspire is actually on the dreadful side.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 26 June 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

I rather like Highspire and Monster Movie. I rate the Highspire disc as one of the best shoegazing cds this year. New Monster Movie disc is coming out soon as well and should be good.

Watch out for the new Air Formation disc. That should be good. Great band.

― solettio, Friday, 13 August 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I was wondering what happened to Air Formation -- I thought the earlier effort was good, not great.

Highspire, them I've not heard of. Hmm...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i was kinda let down by the last monster movie record.... considering the lineage, i was hoping for better.

i love quotes like, "american kids don't really do shoegazing all that well"... [insert cynical derision here.]
m.

― msp, Friday, 13 August 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone mentioned the new Dykehouse on here, thats got a pretty shoegazey feel.

It made me dig out Sunkissed by Guitar the other day, I don't seem to like it anymore.

I think if you're gonna do Shoegazery kind of stuff I reckon you have to be really analogue (maybe a bit lofi) with it, digital shoegaze sounds too processed to my ears and lacks that other worldly sound.

― TomB (TomB), Friday, 13 August 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if that made much sense, I'm trying to say

Digital/Electro Shoegaze = 3d Computer generated other worldly landscapes a la Primus artwork or something.

The MBV sound = A really chunky abstract Van Gogh.

― TomB (TomB), Friday, 13 August 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

there's a new Coastal album and a reissue of the first For Against album just out. very very excited about both.

― purple patch (electricsound), Saturday, 14 August 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Reviewed both for the AMG!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 14 August 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

sweeet

― purple patch (electricsound), Saturday, 14 August 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i hope that words on music reish some of the other for against stuff, especially "december"..

― purple patch (electricsound), Saturday, 14 August 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven months pass...

the latest Color Filter album "silent way" is completely wonderful. dreamy and blissful but in a far more subtle way than 99% of so-called 'shoegaze' releases..

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 21 July 2005 03:01 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

sydney band Sounds Like Sunset's new album "Invisible" is like a heavier Joy Zipper / Autolux type thing and the songs are great. highly recommended, and not just because TB are supporting them when they come to melbie

― vacuum cleaner (electricsound), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 07:12 (twenty years ago)

Can someone please talk about Sennen (the UK band)? That is, if they're worth talking about.

― phallocentric (desolate), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 07:57 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Pacific UV is like a poorman's Spiritualized, but still not bad.

i love their album. i sometimes see the spiritualized connection, sometimes not. but it's really good anyway.

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 10 November 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

i can second color filter, i saw them play in Setagaya tokyo this time last year and they were fab, sort of strung between your '92 vintage pedal hoppers with a lush saint etienne-y , laptopy quality. sonic cathedral should get them over to play IMMEDIATELY.

god i wish i was in tokyo now.

― cw (cww), Thursday, 10 November 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

All this Skywave love and no mention of A Place To Bury Strangers?

C'mon, people.

http://www.aplacetoburystrangers.com/

― cdwill, Thursday, 10 November 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

i know its been said before in other threads but the Radio Dept. album "lesser matters" is top notch.

and the newest Air Formation album on clairecords is also quite good.

and i guess its not exactly new, but the Mahogany single/ep collection on darla is excellent, better than their LP i'd say.

― brontosaur, Thursday, 10 November 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

it's been a while since i've listened to the first mahogany album.. maybe i'll queue up the whole lot and have a mahogany listening orgy

― john p. irrelevant (electricsound), Thursday, 10 November 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

engineers

― John Jacob, Thursday, 10 November 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

televise!!

― john p. irrelevant (electricsound), Thursday, 10 November 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

some of the characters on this neat little disc

http://www.clubac30.com/releases/release.php?RID=63A1AA758C1815EF6C1E0B6C21DD7E90

― john p. irrelevant (electricsound), Thursday, 10 November 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

Ladytron

― w. lee, Thursday, 10 November 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

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