
So much new music these days is reminiscent of the golden age of shoegaze that my heart fairly skips a beat when one of the golden-agers actually turn up. So it was a moment ago, when the new single from Bailterspace (sometimes rendered Bailter Space) popped into my email. The New Zealand/New York rockers rose to prominence on the legendary Flying Nun Records, and their three-records-in-three-years run ("Robot World," "Vortura" and "Wammo," all of which came out on Matador from 1993 to ’95) remains dizzying in today's world. Their single "X" (1994) remains at No. 7 [...]