Review: Revolution — The Shoegaze Revival
This review has been updated to reflect the current label selling this album. Not sure exactly what happened, but there you have it. 7/12/2016 If you’re like me, you sometimes get that itch that can …
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Preview Thud’s New Single: Venture
Back in October we reviewed Hong Kong shoegaze act Thud’s premiere single, Lime, calling it “a little dreampop gem.” And now they’re out with a new single for Border Series entitled Venture that is even …
Review: Thud — Lime
We’ve written a bit about the shoegaze renaissance that has been bubbling in the indie rock scene for the last decade. While the whole “nugaze” thing really kicked off in the early 2000s, there have …
whirr: a reflection on shoegaze
[embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOYVjIKeSyA[/embedyt] the short: to be clear sway is whirr‘s best album to date. at least my favorite. it’s introspective it’s reflective. it’s self-loathing and obsessed (with noise distortion and reverb as sound… but-no-one-will-listen-to-us-play-one-chord-for-a-half-hour-so-we-better-write-songs obsessed). this …
Review: mobdividual
As this cough will choke me, I implore you to have my body opened, so that I may not be buried alive. These are said to be among composer Frédéric Chopin’s final written words in …
This Week in Shoegaze
This is the feature in which we attempt to follow the Drone Subterranean Wall of Sound and Whispered Vocals. When last we wrote this segment, we mentioned the rumors of a Slowdive reunion, long whispered …
#sunbather
two different friends on a social media website posted about this particular band.. i had seen the name around but knowing the tastes of these two, i figured id scope it out. deafheaven – sunbather hitting play …
This Week in Shoegaze
This is the feature in which we attempt to follow the Drone Subterranean Wall of Sound and Whispered Vocals. [embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRnoNsZsFLY[/embedyt] Carmen Villain, aka Carmen Hillestad, is a Norwegian former supermodel whose 2013 release Sleeper has …
This Week in Shoegaze
This is the feature in which we attempt to follow the Drone Subterranean Wall of Sound and Whispered Vocals. We begin this feature with the latest project from Simon Raymonde, core member of the pioneering …