shoegaze
News: Vibrissae Announce New LP ‘Somewhere Away’, Share New Single “Need”
Portland-based Vibrissae may call the Pacific Northwest their home, but all three members hail from different parts of the world. Those transatlantic roots show in the band’s sound. A cool mix of hazy post-punk, dizzying shoegaze, and electronic swells give the band an early 90s vibe that crashes with a post-modern aftertaste. Think Blonde Redhead, …
Track: Vyk Non – Distant Stars
Seems that London quartet Vyk Non are on a mission to confuse us. Starting with their name that, in the spirit of Aphex Twin, consists of basically meaningless words that mean nothing, they follow it up by making jerky, noisey art pop/punk, with shades of The Pixies and Fugazi that’s just as difficult to describe/pigeonhole. …
See: Pink Milk release new video for Detroit
Talking about their new song ‘Detroit’, Gothenburg Shoegaze duo Pink Milk say is is “… written to a childhood friend; We were kids trying to be cool, smoking candy, blowing fake smoke in the air, dreaming about freedom.” There’s a splash of that innocence about the track, this wistfulness that pulls at the heartstrings, but …
See: Jackal Onasis release new video for album title track Big Deal Party
Brooklyn trio Jackal Onasis (yeah, great name) are Alex Molini (Stove, Big Putts, ex-Dirty Dishes), Jordyn Blakely (Stove, ex-Butter The Children, ex-Night Manager) and Ghoul Man (Sickhead). They’re about to release their debut album, Big Deal Party through Exploding in Sound Records on June 24th, but before that they’ve released some visuals for the albums …
Track: Pale Dian – Evan Evan
If you’re in need of something to drift away to on this wet STurday afternoon, let us here at Backseat Mafia point you in the direction of Evan Evan, by Austin based shoegazers Pale Dian. Taken from their forthcoming debut LP Narrow Birth, out on June 3rd via Manifesto Records, it wraps up a tale …
Album Review: Nothing – Tired Of Tomorrow
Nothing seem to float in this very unique musical cloud of both inescapable beauty and sharp ugliness. The sounds are both pastoral and urban. Domenic Palermo’s sometimes gritty upbringing in the streets of North Philly comes through in the sounds that come through the speakers. A youth soundtracked by both hardcore and shoegaze comes through …
Track: Stillwave – “What have you”
Opening with what has become their distinguishing trademark, Marcel Jongejan’s vocals lead us in and sweep us away into three minutes of synthetic bliss. “What Have You”slowly builds in intensity as its many layers unravel to reveal hidden depths of power and emotion that Stillwave so easily and skillfully turn over, and over again… “What Have You” is …
Premiere: darkdarkhead – Falling Upwards
We’re delighted to premiere the new, second single titled Falling Upwards, to be taken from darkdarkdarkhead’s new EP Strange Weather, which drops on March 25th via Saint Marie. Already having been the subject of a retrospective via Captured Trakcs, the band have continued to make slightly psychedelic shoegaze despite the band’s singer leaving in 2009. …
Track: Flowers – Everybody’s Dying to Meet You
Flowers return with their second album ‘Everybody’s Dying To Meet You’ and as one person who falls in love easily, I’m not ashamed to say I’m in love with this LP. If you spent your youth shoe gazing in the indie clubs on a Friday night to Cocteau Twins and Galaxie 500 this will be up your …
News: DIIV announce Spring European Tour
Brooklyn based shoegazers DIIV are gearing up to the release of their second album, Is The Is Are, a 17 song double album out this Friday (5th Feb) via Captured Tracks. Ahead of that, the follow up to critically acclaimed debut Oshin,they’ve announced a mammoth European tour this Spring taking in a handful of dates …