Daily life is full of signs and reminders to us of how much we are all influenced by the ways of the world and nature and how all these factors combine to make us both vulnerable and changeable. There is also music that calls to mind that very feeling and that is what this week’s playlist is dedicated to. Listen on and if you enjoy what you hear, seek out these bands further and support them in their pleasure-giving… The Joy [...]
Charlie Nieland of Her Vanished Grace has compiled this playlist exclusively for The Record Stache. Before getting on with that, be sure to also check out some of the glitter that HVG has been producing and check them out further at http://hervanishedgrace.com/ . “These artists came into my life and each brought their unique emotional glow. Some I had the honor of working with; others just seized me as a listener. All sweep in on a tidal wave of blissful melancholy [...]
Ying and yang, the rush and the wait. The pull of the full moon. All of these things reflect the pull and push that sometimes comes with one’s musical cravings. This playlist reflects that very fluctuation… This selection is but a taster – there’s much more to be found for Seekers who are Lovers. Deepfieldview – Sundappled (featuring Charlie Nieland from Her Vanished Grace) Aerofall – [...]
Perfectly balancing the ingredients of nostalgic post-punk as ever, here's another one from The Machine Room . Note the thoughtful lyrics. Please check out their ep "Love From A Distance" here . Regular readers are familiar with my pattern of posting synthpop on Saturdays and more mellow dreampop on Sundays. So, in keeping with that, please enjoy this blissful tune from My Violaine Morning (free download). This should round out this post nicely!
Distorted drums lead out ‘Car Crash’, the opening track on this sixteenth (!!) album from New York natives Her Vanished Grace, before a heavy guitar riff hints at something approaching rock. Then banks of guitar shimmer into scene and Charles Nieland’s vocal takes us into familiar Her Vanished Grace territory, but with an edge: The pace is more up tempo, this is dreampop you can tap your foot too. In the right light you could even find yourself dancing. By Kev Scott
March is a borderline month that marks that transition from the cold and dreary towards something brighter and refreshing. This year, climatic conditions around the globe meant that March was clouded over. Here are 10 sonic busters, which helped me get through this past month. Go find these artists – they are on Soundcloud and Bandcamp. Most have music for sale, some are giving some tracks away – find them on Facebook. Support them as you will. Now head-on for some cloud busting! [...]
22 years on from their faithful meeting in a New York museum Charles and Nancy Nieland show no signs of hanging up their boots on their Her Vanished Grace project. To have lasted this long in the industry takes some staying power and an unshakeable belief in what you are doing. And with last year's 'Star-Crossed' sounding so vital, so alive and so taken with early 902s shoegaze matters we hope they have only reached the midway point. If the Cocteau Twins are where it's at for you then this NYC combo will keep you up all night with [...]
Videos today featuring the dusty groove of Anders & Kendall , more shoegazey dream pop from Her Vanished Grace , and a stripped down acoustic version of Plaster from Beast Patrol . a a a Follow @madmackerel
Sufjan Stevens, the prolific songwriter and musician behind amazing albums like Michigan, Illnoise, and The Age of Adz, is unlike any other musician of the modern age when it comes to Christmas songs. With the release Tuesday of yet another box set of Christmas songs, titled Silver & Gold, Stevens has now recorded and released [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Well, it looks like I could go two ways with this feature. I could take the lazy route and simply slap the shoegaze label on Her Vanished Grace's latest album, Star-Crossed, or I could really point out what you're going to hear. Sure, I get it. Her Vanished Grace's music is hazy and easy to get lost within. However, I refuse to classify their music as shoegaze, like everybody else seems to have. Star-Crossed is really a combination of two genres, post punk and arena rock, with a fair amount of grunginess and fuzz added in for some nice flair. [...]
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The more we comb through the mp3 archives, the more we are reminded of just how much rad music was released this year. We've picked our favorite track from each month of 2011, and this is our second installment of Our Year In Sound, ah yeah, that would be February. Beige; Silver Writing Belong; Perfect Life The Raveonettes; Forget That You're Young [...]
Letztes Jahr erwähnte ich ja bereits einmal die New Yorker Band Her Vanished Grace , deren PowerPop-DreamPop-Shoegaze-Mix tur bereits damals gut gefiel. Und auf ihrem neuen Album «See the moon» zeigt das Quartett, dass es nichts von seiner Fähigkeit, dicht gewobene, atmosphärische Songs zu schreiben, verloren hat. Co-Sängerin Nancy Nieland schafft es, den Gitarren Paroli zu bieten und so irgendwo zwischen Garbage und den Cocteau Twins zu landen. Höhepunkte des Albums sind für mich vor allem die Lieder «Beauty lingers» und «Passenger», von denen ich Euch nach Rücksprache mit der Band eins als Gratisdownload anbieten darf. [...]
A few videos that have caught our eyes and ears recently. Watch and grab some downloads below. First up, Ale Mania have a nice line in sleazy guitars on Robust Universe . a Orange County quintet Young The Giant have unveiled a brand new 'In The Open' session video of their track Guns Out . a Milwaukee six-piece Collections of Colonies of [...]
I've long been an admirer of the Her Vanished Grace post-shoegaze sound but not enough to single out a tune for praise. Could well be that 'Passenger' has achieved that notoriety because it sounds so much like hugger faves Mew. The song is taken from the New Yorker's latest LP 'See The Moon' and establishes Charles and Nancy Nieland as having the perfect vocal tag team to accompany the layers of sulphuric chords. 'Passenger' has the undeniable feeling of an early nineties classic, with the fuzz and atmospheric theatrics finally relenting to the soaring voices. Brings you back and them [...]
NYC dream op band Her Vanished Grace have added another chapter to their the lengthy discography. See The Moon is their seventh album and it could be mistaken by careless listeners for a Sisters of Mercy side project, albeit with superior lyrics and passion replacing pathos. Nance and Charles Nieland share vocal duties, intertwining their guitar parts like a complicated 3D jigsaw puzzle. Her Vanished has a knack for playing big songs in a gentle way. Running up and down the octaves never gets in the way of [...]
Ja, großartig, in New York lebt und bebt auch die Dreampopszene. Bereits 2009 veröffentlichte das Quartett Her Vanished Grace ihr neuestes, ihr fünftes Album «Blue» , doch erst jetzt stoße ich eher per Zufall darauf. Da diese Band nicht nur die üblichen (Slowdive, Cocteau Twins, Chameleons) und etwas unüblichere Verdächtige (Curve, The Pale Saints), sondern auch etwas schrammeligere Sounds wie PJ Harvey oder Glasvegas zu ihren Einflüssen zählt, bekommen wir keine lupenreinen, wabernden Gitarrenmeere, sondern eher leicht durch den Feedbackfilter gejagten Indierock mit schwebendem Timbre. Alles sehr angenehm! Und da ihr Label gleich drei Songs als kostenlosen [...]
Continuing with the recent theme of atmospheric pop music that Washed Out and Neon Indian showed us, Her Vanished Grace deliver a similar sort of layer-based sereneness that differentiates itself through dark and moody Brit-rock instead of chilly electronica or sample-based experimentation. By most accounts, Blue is their tenth release of new material since their [...]
Live at Pianos, NYC - 2008/10/18. Photo: Lito Vales Good albums can be housed in so-so cover art. Take Blue , the latest offering from Her Vanished Grace , a New York quartet with a big back catalog, who have been flying under the radar longer than they care to remember. Their dreamy richly textured pop songs were recorded and produced by guitarist Charles Nieland , a man who knows his job after handling assignments for Deborah Harry and Rufus Wainwright as one half of the Super Buddha [...]
Reviewed by Sarah Morrison New York based four-piece Her Vanished Grace have created a sound which is really something special with their newest album 'Blue'. They describe themselves as dream pop (incidentally one of my favouritely named subgenres ever), and mix sweeping guitar-led soundscapes with gorgeous wistful vocals harmonies, inventive textures and a pop-y undercurrent. The album's title track, featured on today's IR Daily Dose, seems to encompass everything that HVG are all about. It's a dreamy sonic landscape [...]
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