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Track: Brooklyn shoegazers DIIV herald new album with title track Frog in Boiling Water
DIIV, those purveyors of fine shoegaze since 2011, have graced us with a new track that feels like a hazy daydream wrapped in a sugar-coated melancholy. Their latest single, released ahead of the upcoming album “Frog in Boiling Water,” is a swirling concoction of understated vocals, noisey guitars that weave in and out and fray …
Track: bdrmm’s ‘Port’ gets some loving electro remix action from Working Men’s Club – come trance out
IT’S AN excellent, mouthwatering battle of two very cred, very excellent Yorkshire bands, duking it out. In the left corner, grapple fans, we have Hull’s bdrmm, the premier next now generation shoegazers; and over there, representing Heavenly Records, it’s Working Men’s Club, who are in the arena ready with a remix of “Port”, the first …
See: With their album out today, Cali shoegazers The Acharis announce a French and UK tour; see the video for the whispery fuzz gem, ‘False Positive’
HAILING from California’s Bay Area, and more specifically Oakland for the precision buffs amongst you, The Acharis may just have made one of the darker shoegaze gems of the year with their new album, Blue Sky / Grey Heaven, dropping today The way Shaun Wagner and Mila Puccini combine vocally on recent single “False Positive” …
Track: Bad Idea join the Come Play With Me Singles Club with a shoegaze gem in ‘Crash’
IT’S always a really good idea to keep your ear to the ground with what’s happening at Leeds label Come Play With Me’s singles club; the Yorkshire label is one of those essential microscopes into a particular scene, keeping an eye on who’s getting hot in the city and its county hinterlands. Please be upstanding …
Track: Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters drop the glimmer of ‘Hindsight is 20-20’, with a September completion of their three-album cycle in hand
HAILING from two great port cities – Kiel, on the German Baltic coast, in the case of Ulrich Schnauss, and Liverpool, in the case of erstwhile Engineers guitarist Mark Peters – these two musicians are united in a musical approach that’s always touched upon a hazy shoegaze from various exploratory angles and looks forward, outward. …
Track: Tape Waves – ‘Tired’: beguiling dream pop outta North Carolina making all the right noises
TAPE WAVES are a rather lovely dream pop duo hailing from Charleston, South Carolina, who are leading a slow and sleepy dance for us towards their June album with a lovely, airy single, “Tired”, which you can play right here. It does all the correct things for a shoegazey tune; Kim Weldin’s voice is breathy, …
See: Andy Bell’s ‘See My Friends’ 10″ is out today; watch the video for the gloriously electronica-psych Pye Corner Audio remix of ‘The Commune’
ANDY BELL’S delicious Ever Decreasing Circles series continues today with a rather too desirable yellow vinyl 10″, the See My Friends EP. The EP features the two tracks from Andy solo debut 7″, “Plastic Bag” and “The Commune”, itself a hyper-limited release as part of Sonic Cathedral’s Singles Club in the winter of 2019, and …
Track: Mint Julep’s ‘Pulse’ is a drop of electro-shoegaze brilliance
MINT JULEP, the halcyon, dreamy musical confection of Hollie and Keith Kenniff (aka Goldmind), are to release a new album, In a Deep & Dreamless Sleep, on Western Vinyl on March 19th; and one listen to the gorgeous “Pulse”, the new single, and you’ll see how deliciously apt a title they’ve picked. Beginning in clicky …
Track: Bleach Lab – ‘Flood’; a final shoegaze shimmer ahead of their debut EP
FIRST things first: we’ve got a bit of a crush on Bleach Lab. The Buckinghamshire dreampop outfit fronted by Jenna Kyle who now call South London home have just dropped one final single ahead of their debut EP, A Calm Sense of Surrounding, out in just ten days; it’s called “Flood”, it’s a heavier confection …
Track: Tuvaband’s ‘Post Isolation’ has a post-Cocteaus dreamy grace
TUVABAND is the dreamlike solo project of Norwegian singer, songwriter, and producer, Tuva Hellum Marschhäuser, whose third full-length offering to the world, Growing Pains & Pleasures, will out in the world in the May – and sees her change direction once again. Her first album, Soft Drop, was airy, ghostly and cinematic, while the second, …