― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 16:55 (twenty years ago) link
― adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 16:56 (twenty years ago) link
― adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 16:57 (twenty years ago) link
Two of the bigger local labels were Mind Expansion Records & Burnt Hair Records- some of the local acts included Fuxa, Windy & Carl (who run a nice indie record shop in Dearborn - Stormy Records), Miss Bliss, Tomorrowland (more ambient/idm, but in the same local scene), His Name is Alive, Auburn Lull, & Transient Waves (outta Philly but w/ ties to the Michigan scene).
Other related stuff was coming out around the US as well from the likes of Darla Records & Kranky Records, and groups like Hopewell (members of Mercury Rev), Jessamine, Bowery Electric, etc, etc..
― pete from the street, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 17:26 (twenty years ago) link
bona-fide classic, absolutely! i never tire of this wonderful record, which recreates dreamlike strolls in rainy cities like few others have done. their later garage-mod output is...interesting, but i never listen to it much. are half-string or curtain society anything like toulouse?
― chomicat, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 17:55 (twenty years ago) link
I wouldn't have automatically thought of Levitation as shoegazers either, but someone else did upthread (I wouldn't describe them as also-rans either).
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 17:59 (twenty years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:01 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:26 (twenty years ago) link
i'd call them "indie-rock" but those more genre-centric may refer to them as "slow-core".
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:37 (twenty years ago) link
still extant bands out here:Color Wall, from LAThe Jealous Type, from Ann Arbor, MIThe Flashing Astonishers, from i ferget where
oh yeah, and the Dykehouse album, when it finally comes out.
― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:41 (twenty years ago) link
The comp that comes with the new issue is really really good.
― Mike Taylor (mjt), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Mike Taylor (mjt), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:42 (twenty years ago) link
Other Medicine-influenced California-based shoegazers of note: The Lassie Foundation.
― Nick Mirov (nick), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 19:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Mike Taylor (mjt), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 20:31 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 20:33 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 20:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Conor (Conor), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 20:36 (twenty years ago) link
Apart from them, burn the rest except MBV obviously.
― Keith Watson (kmw), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 20:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 21:54 (twenty years ago) link
mention of IPR is OTM - an amazing label. everything i buy on that label is a gem of shoegazing or Factory/4AD influenced wonderment.
― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 9 October 2003 00:01 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 9 October 2003 00:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Neil FC (Neil FC), Thursday, 9 October 2003 00:28 (twenty years ago) link
One of my all-time favourites.
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Thursday, 9 October 2003 00:51 (twenty years ago) link
― fernando, Thursday, 9 October 2003 00:54 (twenty years ago) link
― steve, Thursday, 9 October 2003 01:09 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 9 October 2003 01:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Thursday, 9 October 2003 01:14 (twenty years ago) link
― keith (keithmcl), Thursday, 9 October 2003 02:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 October 2003 03:51 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 9 October 2003 03:52 (twenty years ago) link
MogwaiGYBE!(some) Mercury RevSigur Ros
― turkey (turkey), Thursday, 9 October 2003 06:54 (twenty years ago) link
Do Lorelei count too? Their early singles were pretty shoegazey. And the Moon Seven Times?
― Rob M (Rob M), Thursday, 9 October 2003 07:06 (twenty years ago) link
Half-String have the right tone but not as many hooks and the singer is slightly more mopey. Curtain Society have the hooks but are more crisp than Toulouse. I definitely recommend Half-String's A Fascination With Heights.
And everyone who praised the Ropers as one of the best groups of all time is unequivocably correct. Don't forget the early singles, handily compiled on the s/t ep. Does anyone here have the Boyracer/Ropers tour split 7" ... I've been dying to hear that song for years.
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Thursday, 9 October 2003 20:49 (twenty years ago) link
I have the Whipping Boy album (Heartworm) and consider When We Were Young as one of the great lost singles of all time, but in no way on this earth would I ever have thought of them as shoegazers.
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 October 2003 21:26 (twenty years ago) link
i have that, somewhere in the deep recesses of my vinyl stacks. i'll have a look for it. it's a nice track..
― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 9 October 2003 22:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 October 2003 23:37 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 9 October 2003 23:55 (twenty years ago) link
― bob snoom, Thursday, 16 October 2003 11:22 (twenty years ago) link
― keith (keithmcl), Thursday, 16 October 2003 23:27 (twenty years ago) link
reminds me... guitar "sunkissed" by morr... what if the sneaker pimps did a shoegaze record?m.
― msp, Friday, 17 October 2003 02:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 17 October 2003 12:46 (twenty years ago) link
― boldbury, Friday, 17 October 2003 14:32 (twenty years ago) link
― boldbury, Friday, 17 October 2003 14:38 (twenty years ago) link
― keith (keithmcl), Friday, 17 October 2003 23:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Andy K (Andy K), Friday, 17 October 2003 23:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Saturday, 18 October 2003 00:39 (twenty years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 19 October 2003 23:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Finelrond Brightblade, Saturday, 8 November 2003 22:40 (twenty years ago) link
― keith (keithmcl), Sunday, 9 November 2003 03:18 (twenty years ago) link
On the Secret Shine tip, I've been really loving Dreamscape this week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zNabzf8POw
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Saturday, 4 February 2023 16:42 (one year ago) link
Truly a very lost classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0cffRUsuxg
― Evan, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 12:44 (one year ago) link
I don't think Polar made anything quite as good as Con Dolore's This Sad Movie (I still consider both Polar albums very great) but this is one of my favorite Polar songshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEYL28yFgtE
I could swear the singer had another band going after with tracks on Myspace, she was fantastic
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 11 February 2023 19:43 (one year ago) link
The new Pencey Sloe album strikes me as a future lost shoegaze classichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLv0P5dKClA
― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Monday, 13 February 2023 02:14 (one year ago) link
Okay so wayyyyy back on this thread a few of us were talking about Australia's Gaslight Radio, who had shoegaze in their makeup if not totally that. They've recently put up a best of on Spotify and a slightly older one on Bandcamp -- worth checking out:
https://gaslightradio.bandcamp.com/album/best-of-gaslight-radio-1996-2006
https://open.spotify.com/album/13LPSQCsi5BNXoCQhMFASl
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 February 2023 03:31 (one year ago) link
Difference Engine quietly released their shelved 1994 album Flex Lavender on streaming services last year, with no accompanying info and no mention of a forthcoming physical release 🤔. it's less Disco Inferno and more Stereolab (at least on the Margie-sung tracks) than Breadmaker) and veers into trip-hop-gaze on the last track. imo the first six tracks + the intro of 'Sky Hutch' would have made for one of the best EPs of the era. it gets a little more pedestrian after that but it's solid enough throughout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osSfzmpyEoI
― hogarth brooks (unregistered), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 02:38 (two months ago) link