Category: shoegaze
The Glee Club – No Reason
If like me you run from any room that features programming that includes nauseating brats doing grossly overdone cover versions please be assured that this band has nothing to do with that franchise. The truth is that the Glee Club […]
[Stream] My Bloody Valentine – MBV
Seems the My Bloody Valentine bandcamp site has been afflicted with the same technical issues as the official resource (what a simple affair it is too, gotta love ‘em) so to dull the pain here is a full stream of […]
My Bloody Valentine – She Found Now
While it’d be faintly ridiculous to give any sort of reaction, only shallow people do that, given the fleeting nature of our relationship with MBV, the omens it must be said are good. Soon. In the meantime you can listen […]
Tamaryn – Heavenly Bodies
You’ll hardly be surprised to know that this isn’t Tamaryn’s first foray here. Given our vintage and insatiable appetite for regurgitating the scene that celebrated itself Tamaryn are a near perfect fit. And a contemporary one too, having turned out […]
Her Vanished Grace – Fade Away
22 years on from their faithful meeting in a New York museum Charles and Nancy Nieland show no signs of hanging up their boots on their Her Vanished Grace project. To have lasted this long in the industry takes some […]
An Introduction To Shoegaze
It has been a couple of decades since shoegaze was at its imperial best but we can’t still shake this genre from our heads. Here is a short snapshot, containing 20 tracks, offering you a rush of blazing guitar noise […]
Fonda – Better Days
Given that Fonda were founded in the mid-90′s it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise when you hear their sound. And with ‘Better Days’ only appearing in 2011 it is unlikely that they are going to change tact […]
She Sir – You Could Be Tiger
Despite being forewarned that Austin’s She Sir were about to down their shoegaze tools for their new single we were convinced otherwise when the gloriously Pale Saints sounding ‘You Could Be Tiger’ pounced throatwards. Ends up that the Austin 4-piece, […]
Slowdive – Machine Gun
What with Reading getting promoted it’s probably apt that one of her most famous (sorta) bands is rolled out for old times sake. And boy did this 5-piece have a lasting influence, to this day my mind often wanders back […]
Toy – Left Myself Behind
This really is quite an extraordinary 7 minutes, especially the molten instrumental breakdown in the second half. And quite unexpectedly it comes from a group in the first flush of youth straight out of London town. They’ve been feted before […]
All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors – Saturn Jig
As I get older I’m finding out that you have to pack more and more into every available day. Leisure time is cannibalised to the extent that non-pressing matters are normally attended to at about 11pm when the stench of […]
Film School – Compare
There was a time when I was very partial to San Fran band Film School, almost to the point where they had ascended the prejudices and downright snobbery that are the peaks of my mount tastebuds. But then they made […]