can someone show me a NEW shoegaze band

AN INTERVIEW ABOUT NOTHING: PHILLY'S BEST SHOEGAZE BAND IS HERE TO KNOCK YOU OVER

You and Noisey both can call them a shoegaze band, but that doesn't make them one. Unless you also think Hum were a shoegaze band, in which case the world has gone to hell.

It's not one or the other, though. It's got a good amount of both elements.

nothing have almost a pop punk feel at times. sometimes like a less sugary version of ringo deathstarr

I just skimmed through the Nothing album on Spotify. They don't sound as much like Hum as I remember Hum sounding, but also there was really only one song that I'd feel in any way comfortable classifying as shoegazey. I mean, I guess in 25 years, the parameters of the genre have been pushed in all directions, but I still adhere to the original signifiers when I'm labeling something as shoegaze.

Venera 4 are really, really shoegaze

add SVIIB to the list of things they sound a bit like, maybe

Yeah, SVIIB were one of the first things I thought of re: Venera 4, but I think they're even more consciously rooted in 1990-92 era shoegaze at every angle.

"I still adhere to the original signifiers"

What exactly are they in your opinion? We can all agree on stolen MBV guitar tricks for sure.

Heavily affected guitars, sleepy and/or angelic voices, super-compressed drums (not "live" sounding at all), equal parts washes of distortion and very clean crystalline sounds.

Too much of nu-gaze focuses on the noisy and forgets the beautiful.

Too much of nu-gaze focuses on the noisy and forgets the beautiful.

Agreed.

"Yeah but what if I play these basic Bob Dylan folk progressions with a ton a reverb... that makes it shoegaze, right?"

If you told me this Venera 4 record was 25 years old I would have believed you.

touched on upthread last august, the debut album by wildhoney dropped, it's very pleasant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CexoHoJGmv4

That's good stuff.

OMG to 11

https://youtu.be/XH96I8k5KpA

uh will this work?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=10&v=XH96I8k5KpA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH96I8k5KpA

Venera 4 is clearly godhead among contemporary shoegaze.

Really like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ_wlKIzsU0

man the spectres record is really something else. i guess they're way too pigfuckey to be considered a pure shoegaze band, but i really dig the rough sound these guys are trying to explore. amrep meets creation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF2dXPGoRYE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BXvRskD6gg

https://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-northern-meadow

one of the year's metal-shoegaze-(industrial, kind of in a classic british postrock mode really) crossover records

Sorry, but unless it's strictly shoegaze gleamed only from the direct influence of Kevin Shields and completely devoid of any other influences, it doesn't belong in this thread. Take that shit somewhere else.

Wrong

NYCN is just grouchy because I said some unkind things about Nothing.

I really like the Crisis Arm album from last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs5VDPiS3kQ

Heavily affected guitars, sleepy and/or angelic voices, super-compressed drums (not "live" sounding at all), equal parts washes of distortion and very clean crystalline sounds.

don't forget: looking at your shoes

Crisis Arm (weird name) sound really good. It's really difficult for a new shoegaze band that sounds so much like the old ones to stand out, there's just loads that do it good/competent so that a lot of them end up seeming redundant even though they are pretty accomplished.

Pyramids sounds great too. I thought that maybe the singer was Matthew Kelly from The Autumns for a few minutes but it isn't.

Didn't realise The Autumns had broken up, I really love their stuff, especially the first two albums. I suppose I still need a few EPs.

Damn, a few of those Autumns EPs are impossible to find. Maybe on youtube though.

ive listened to a ton of venera 4 at this point. you can't get more 1990 than this imo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PDUZB8pRvY

i do however keep hearing moment 3:47 of _this_ song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdmNC8ylrXI

which at least is the best one second of that song.

New She's So Rad album Tango is a pretty interesting shoegaze meets electro/boogie record; shades of Chapterhouse's Blood Music or some of the lost gen stuff.

Just this past month I've been really getting into some shoegaze (Venera 4) and shoegaze-adjacent (Marriages, Novella) bands.

I like that Marriages album. I never remember to listen to it, though.

Marriages album is really good but it's not quite as good as Emma Ruth Rundle's solo album from last year. Her voice doesn't ever remind me of Dolores O'Riordan on that, for one.

This is the singer from (ugh) Perfect Pussy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=189&v=Eg5xSDhbeqE

I like it. Kind of reminds me of the first Third Eye Foundation album. The blastbeat is... odd.

Hmmm maybe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg5xSDhbeqE

the new Flyying Colours EP is even better than the first one: http://www.shelflife.com/catalogue/LIFE126.html

No Joy's new album More Faithful is excellent.

Their 2014 self-titled album is pretty solid. They remind me of a bunch of US bands that were influenced by shoegaze in the mid 90s. Like this could have been on Spin Art or the like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwqHxWUGpdc

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Did Ned ever listen to Venera 4 like he said he was going to?

Would also recommend to Ned the out-of-nowhere SPs guitar solo on She's So Rad's Cool It.

whirr just got dropped by their label(s?) because of a flurry of transphobic tweets, which they subsequently chalked up to a "friend" who had access to their account.

So Title Fight sound like Chapterhouse and Ride I am told? Haven't listened yet myself

The Lucid Dream
http://fastnbulbous.com/the-lucid-dream-the-lucid-dream/
http://holyareyourecordings.bigcartel.com/product/the-lucid-dream-the-lucid-dream-cd

The Underground Youth
https://fuzzclub.bandcamp.com/album/haunted

Dead Skeletons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVx0Iwfe0WY
https://youtu.be/FOZwOg4kTb4

more on that whirr story, sounds like Roxy did v well to steer clear:

http://thequietus.com/articles/19060-band-dropped-after-transphobic-tweets

n/m, that story is all over the internet anyway. hateful people doing stupid things again

anyone connect w/ the Vaadat Charigim from this year? its kind of a letdown for me after "the world is well lost"

i'm not a deep shoegaze head, but i think people on this thread would enjoy this little Greek shoegaze revival:

https://hushhushrecords.bandcamp.com/track/tame

https://keepshellyinathens.bandcamp.com/album/now-i-m-ready

I really really like that Keep Shelley In Athens album. They have their own thread but it's a pretty quite one.