[ download ] Brim Liski , whose eponymous debut EP was released last week on Latenight Weeknight Records , is a little brief when it comes to biographical information. From their shadowy press photos to their record label's vague history, the duo seems to be cultivating a bit of mystery in regards to their origins. However, given their association with Latenight Weeknight, the Colorado hometown on their Myspace page , and their shoegaze-meets-electronica sound, it's safe to say the band has some connections to Denver neo-shoegazers [...]
You Should Know I can't find much biographical information on Snow In Mexico so let's keep this short and sweet. I've surmised that they are an Italian duo that makes dreamy shoegaze music sans drummer. Backed by drum machine beats, the band's EP is filled with hauntingly echoed vocals and floating guitars. They are a bit reminiscent of Slowdive, which is interesting because I've been on a major Mojave 3 kick lately (Neil Halstead was in Slowdive). The band is offering up their lovely EP for free on [...]
Novembre-gazing Alle due del pomeriggio è già così buio che se non accendi la luce sembra di stare in un biopic ambientato a Manchester nel 1979. Qui sono giornate di musica soltanto in sottofondo. Da un certo punto di vista mi viene da pensare "purtroppo", perché certi nuovi ascolti meriterebbero più attenzione. Ma d'altra parte, a volte a novembre si sta bene anche così, avvolti da canzoni con cui ci si trova a proprio agio, senza l'ansia di rincorrere l'attualità a ogni costo. Va da sé che finisco spesso per privilegiare suoni stratificati, ritmi dimessi e [...]
Novembre-gazing Alle due del pomeriggio è già così buio che se non accendi la luce sembra di stare in un biopic ambientato a Manchester nel 1979. Qui sono giornate di musica soltanto in sottofondo. Da un certo punto di vista mi viene da pensare "purtroppo", perché certi nuovi ascolti meriterebbero più attenzione. Ma d'altra parte, a volte a novembre si sta bene anche così, avvolti da canzoni con cui ci si trova a proprio agio, senza l'ansia di rincorrere l'attualità a ogni costo. Va da sé che finisco spesso per privilegiare suoni stratificati, ritmi dimessi e [...]
In a way, the Meeting Places' name is perfect. Like the best of their shoegazing forebears, the L.A. quartet's music glistens in the place where fuzz-filled soundscapes meet memorable melodies. The quartet of Scott McDonald, Chase Harris, Dean Yoshihara and Arthur Chan has been an on-again, off-again proposition since early in the decade, taking a break after their promising 2006 album, "Numbered Days," but recently scored some song placements on "Gossip Girl" and set to work on new material. The surging "Millions" marries emotional atmospherics to layered swell of melody in a way that would make fans of [...]
Un nouveau EP pour The Sight Below . 'Murmur' ci-contre contient deux nouveaux titres de ce producteur discret de Detroit qui viennent donner suite à son immense album 'Glider' sorti l'an passé. Aujourd'hui le son est plus dense et puissant, presque Club, sans pour autant abandonner l'ambient qui faisait sa force. Deux remixes viennent compléter le tracklist, celui de Simon Scott (batteur des shoegazers 90's de Slowdive) ci-dessous en fait parti, pour une relecture de At First Touch le morceau d'ouverture de 'Glider', délesté ici de son beat - de sa pulsation plutôt! - [...]
We're fascinated by the various reactions of those artists who pioneered the "shoegaze" sound in the 80's and 90's. While they seem split, we have a firm belief. Great songwriting makes for brilliant music, regardless of the genre. While the effects pedals or the production of the song may exactly replicate the sound of a band you've heard before, it's the assemblage of notes that makes any song stand out. Which brings us to The Arctic Flow. Songs veer from ethereal beauty to pop delicacies while maintaining an dream-like quality (watch us deftly avoiding adjectives [...]
Former Slowdive drummer Simon Scott has been building up to releasing his debut solo album for quite some time and his meticulousness and deliberation were decidedly not in vain. Despite Scott's percussionist roots, Navigare is a glacial and often beatless dose of soft-focus sonic heroin that seamlessly integrates his shoegazer past with recent inspiration from ambient experimentalists like Fennesz and Tim Hecker.
Time to Gaze at the " STARS" , ladies and gentleman. Considering their name is Warpaint , this is flourescent-yellow-mellow, a quaint combo of Slowdive , Himalaya , Asobi Seksu and several more I don't have the energy to get into quite yet ( Lush , Chapterhouse , Astral - ... AGGHH, STOP). Truth is, I've been busy as IT-SHAY and haven't [...]
Blacklist Announce Shows, Including Debut Performances On The West Coast "icy sound and quaking bottom end is counterbalanced by a more inviting, anthemic impulse" - Village Voice "brooding post-punk with anthemic choruses" - NME "bell-ringing guitars and dark-overcoat charisma transport you back to the Chameleons' anthemic heyday." - SPIN [Songs You Must Here Now!] 11/04 - Union Hall - Brooklyn, NY (w/The Mary Onettes) 11/14 - Nomad - Los Angeles, CA 11/15 - The Knockout - San Francisco, CA 11/19 - Death By Audio - Brooklyn, [...]
"Dying In Time", nuovo full length dei genovesi Port-Royal (ormai conosciuti e stimati anche all'estero), è il pregevole risultato di un brillante percorso evolutivo, la loro opera più completa ed eclettica, emotivamente coinvolgente nei passaggi più ambientali e dilatati, come sempre, e accattivante nelle parti arricchite da pulsazioni simil-danzerecce. C'è più movimento, più calore, più carnalità, nelle undici composizioni ivi raccolte, a fronte di una più pronunciata sensibilità ritmica e una enfasi sul discorso sintetico che invece farebbe pensare a una maggiore freddezza nell'approccio compositivo. Ma così non è. Questo terzo album dei Royals [...]
Hope Sandoval destila un álbum pausado y narcótico en Through the Devil Softly . La sensualidad y el intimismo impregnan cada una de las notas de su voz, guitarra y armónica en este nuevo trabajo, al ritmo de un día de lluvia en el cual se busca cobijo y calor. La calidez es, precisamente, el valor agregado de estas melodías en cámara lenta, que se quedan pegadas y evolucionan de manera orgánica, como las ramas de una enredadera en torno a un árbol. Su segunda producción bajo su propio nombre junto a The Warm Inventions (Colm O'Coisog, [...]
Hardcore Slowdive fans will probably scoff at this demo of "Silver Screen", simply because it's been floating around the web for years. It comes from a batch of internet-ready demos and outtakes of songs that were recorded between the Just For a Day and Souvlaki sessions, intended to appear on the latter release. But this track in particular sounds so perfect, so album-ready and catchy. It boggles my mind why it wasn't ever released as a 7" or radio single. Get the rest of the demos/unreleased gems [...]
My thesis is now almost in the lap of the Gods. I have two nights off 'for perspective' while my supervisor proofreads the thing. At 240 pages it's a bit lumpen and scary (like my soul), so I feel sorry for her. After that, there is one more weekend of torture - prettying it up, formatting tables, pausing only to shit or fill my face with Aldi chocolate. D Day is Thursday next week.I wonder how I'll feel? It will be a line drawn under four tough years. [...]
As you may have noticed, I added a Soundcloud widget over in the right-hand column of the blog a few weeks back. If you're not familiar with it, Soundcloud is a pretty cool service that allows artists to post songs and "send" them to other people on Soundcloud to stream and/or download. Essentially, it's a prettier, easier way of sending tracks to a blogger (or anyone else) than emailing a file or a link. And while I've been getting a lot of notifications from Soundcloud that people have been sending me songs, I finally got [...]
Deutschlands beste Shoegazeband, Malory , ist endlich mal wieder auf Tour und wird morgen, am Sonntag, den 18.10. um 21 Uhr im Grünen Jäger aufspielen. Mit im Gepäck haben sie sicherlich auch viele Songs ihres neuen Albums, das Anfang 2010 erscheinen wird. Auf ihrer letzten Tour durften wir ja schon drei neue Stücke bewundern und konstatieren, dass Malory sich wieder ein wenig zu ihren Wurzeln hin bewegen, also mehr in Richtung Slowdive und weniger in Richtung Elektronik. Das wird also sicherlich erneut ein tolles, atmosphärisches Konzert! Link zur Bandseite bei Myspace
Shoegaze starlets Lush had a healthy doze of dazzling reverb and fuzzy feedback that penetrated the soul of wide-ey ed listeners. Formed in Lo ndon in 1988 and signed to indie cult lab el, 4AD, the band's first three EP's were backed by the genius production of Robin Gu thrie of the Cocteau T wins. [...]
Cambiamos de registro para fijarnos en la banda de Washington DC Last Tide, formada por Nate Frey, Rob Miller, Lobby Dorot, Misha Alexander y Patrick Kikongo. Se caracterizan por fusionar elementos de diversos géneros musicales por los que se sienten atraídos, tales como el shoegaze y el slowcore, incluyendo también algo de punk, música experimental y post-rock. La combinación de todo esto resulta muy atractiva, con un sonido vigoroso, de ritmo trepidante y canciones directas que reflejan las influencias de la banda que van desde Slowdive a Dinosaur Jr, pasando por My Bloody Valentine, Portishead o Pixies. Recientemente [...]
Avec 'A Pox On The Pionners', Andrew Weatherall, grand sorcier de l'ombre de l'electro anglaise, sort son premier album solo , à 46 ans. Il n'est jamais trop tard. Voici Walk Of Shame ... Extrait de la B.O de Twillight 2 Hearing Damage signe le retour de Thom Yorke en solo, et même si l'anglais n'a pas cessé d'être actif, seul ou avec Radiohead, ce titre est nettement mieux que le dernier single digital de Radiohead et vaut presque 'The Eraser' à lui seul; en bref c'est du lourd... extrait de leur [...]
My thesis is now almost the lap of the Gods. I have two nights off 'for perspective' while my supervisor proofreads the thing. At 240 pages it's a bit lumpen and scary (like my soul), so I feel sorry for her. After that, there is one more weekend of torture - prettying it up, formatting tables, and pausing only to shit or fill my face with Aldi chocolate. D Day is Thursday next week.I wonder how I'll feel? It will be a line drawn under four tough years. Well maybe not exactly a line, because I will [...]
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