their first tape was this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvPXREnG7dY
― scott seward, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 17:57 (four months ago) link
anyhoo, carry on shoegazing shoegeezers!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 17:58 (four months ago) link
Ooh ty will give that a whirl!
All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavours are the great underrated 90s shoegaze band and Kairon; IRSE the great underrated one now, among others ofc
Cigarettes After Sex are the single worst band in the world. I hate them with a passion you can only guess at
― imago, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 18:00 (four months ago) link
(and if you want something in between those eras, Coaltar Of The Deepers should be much, much bigger with The Kids than they are imo!)
― imago, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 18:01 (four months ago) link
kairon; irse is proggier/psychier than any of the original blend shoegaze bands imo. good stuff tho
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 18:04 (four months ago) link
speaking of 'we have [x] at home', this Bloody Comeback song is Ulver at home lol (I am enjoying it)
― imago, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 18:06 (four months ago) link
but yeah where are the kids trying to sound like this ;_;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlJwXe4dmSc
― imago, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 18:23 (four months ago) link
i still have my copy of turning into small. such a great mesh of my stereolab valentine. thy did it best in the states.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 18:32 (four months ago) link
have put Frysh on, it's sounding quite interesting, excellent Y2Kwave (see also that one Fireside album)
― imago, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 18:36 (four months ago) link
we are however massively off-topic lol
Pitchfork w/their 2023 shoegaze revival articlehttps://pitchfork.com/features/article/the-shoegaze-revival-hit-its-stride-in-2023/
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 28 December 2023 03:04 (four months ago) link
It has long seemed to me like the shoegaze approach to rock that has never dated or gone on a downswing, unlike the genres that it rose from -- goth, jangle, NYC noise, post-hardcore. Maybe because it has always sat in a sweet spot just below mainstream, accumulating interest as listeners age into it, hooks always buried enough you have to search for them. I don't really associate it with a generation or a wave. Like, when the UK music press tossed it aside, it was just getting going in the US.
― bendy, Thursday, 28 December 2023 16:23 (four months ago) link
I remember feeling a bit superior about that at the time, the landmark MBV/Ride/Slowdive albums had been and gone - with just the occasional mention of the term as an arch callback to its original put-down usage - and then the US was all “hay guys I looooove shoegaze” and lots of not-really-relevant or second-rate bands being picked up seemingly at random.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 28 December 2023 16:58 (four months ago) link
i was way into it and it woulda happened if it wasn’t for that meddling grunge. but all grunge did was push shoegaze just under the surface where it’s festered and now it is a wonderful ubiquitous toxic algae bloom.
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Thursday, 28 December 2023 22:05 (four months ago) link
Concrete Avalanche posts a pretty good intro guide to Chinese shoegaze https://jakenewby.substack.com/p/a-beginners-guide-to-chinese-shoegaze
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 22 February 2024 03:14 (two months ago) link
Really into the new somesurprises record, they’re touring the east coast in a couple weeks https://somesurprises.bandcamp.com/album/perseids
― JoeStork, Monday, 29 April 2024 15:24 (five days ago) link
Yeah I need to get around to listening to that -- Catbus, a Bluesky account I've been following for a while for the good new shoegaze recs, has talked this up and I know I have it around here somewhere!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 April 2024 15:27 (five days ago) link