Ten Modern Shoegaze Bands: A Primer
May 29, 2017 9:57 PM Subscribe
Very excited to check this out
posted by not_the_water at 11:23 PM on May 29, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by not_the_water at 11:23 PM on May 29, 2017 [1 favorite]
I am really enjoying burrowing into this particular rabbit hole.
posted by gamera at 11:29 PM on May 29, 2017
posted by gamera at 11:29 PM on May 29, 2017
grobertson: I can thoroughly recommend Asobi Seksu. Now, I'm off to find aout about these loveliescrushing people, of whom I've never heard...
posted by pompomtom at 2:01 AM on May 30, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by pompomtom at 2:01 AM on May 30, 2017 [2 favorites]
The first Serena-Maneesh album is awesome. Seeing them live when they were touring it, on a small stage at like four in the morning at Roskilde was one of the most memorable gigs of my life. They were utterly shambolic, but somehow the overall impression held together through the chaos.
Don't know most of the rest of the bands mentioned - will definitely be checking them out.
posted by Dysk at 2:34 AM on May 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
Don't know most of the rest of the bands mentioned - will definitely be checking them out.
posted by Dysk at 2:34 AM on May 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
See also She Bit Her Lip, from Estonia.
posted by schoolgirl report at 5:38 AM on May 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by schoolgirl report at 5:38 AM on May 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
Some of these are really good, and this will be a fun base to explore from.
posted by Dip Flash at 5:41 AM on May 30, 2017
posted by Dip Flash at 5:41 AM on May 30, 2017
Hm. If this does turn into a proper revival thang, it's going to be hard work keeping out of the lapine mines for those of us who had a shoegazer/heavy psych/MBV thing going on back in the day. I can't get through one of these without feeling the spacetime distorting dragging me off-course and slingshotting the USS Lysergic Lethargic through a timewarp.
(brb - just realised I haven't listened to - or even thought of - Spacemen 3's Playing With Fire for far too long...)
posted by Devonian at 5:57 AM on May 30, 2017 [3 favorites]
(brb - just realised I haven't listened to - or even thought of - Spacemen 3's Playing With Fire for far too long...)
posted by Devonian at 5:57 AM on May 30, 2017 [3 favorites]
Day late and dollar short, but they forget
No Joy
And
Cheatahs
posted by thivaia at 6:53 AM on May 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
No Joy
And
Cheatahs
posted by thivaia at 6:53 AM on May 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
Pia Fraus, a band that appeared right in the no man's land in the late 90s has new, gorgeous stuff. They're also on Bandcamp, and I wonder if these articles are purely data-driven, because a lot there is... dunno, the same parade of thick WOS clichés that made me turn away from "shoegaze bands" into "bands that listened to a lot of Souvlaki and Pygmalion" some years ago.
posted by lmfsilva at 8:01 AM on May 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by lmfsilva at 8:01 AM on May 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
Nice find. I'm a fan of Ringo Deathstarr, who I think qualify too.
posted by jetsetsc at 10:00 AM on May 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by jetsetsc at 10:00 AM on May 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
Pia Fraus, a band that appeared right in the no man's land in the late 90s has new, gorgeous stuff.
This makes me so happy - even despite the fact that I somehow only learned about their new stuff here and now! My first impression is that they have incorporated a lot of their Imandra Lake stuff into these new songs.
posted by daniel_charms at 12:09 PM on May 30, 2017
This makes me so happy - even despite the fact that I somehow only learned about their new stuff here and now! My first impression is that they have incorporated a lot of their Imandra Lake stuff into these new songs.
posted by daniel_charms at 12:09 PM on May 30, 2017
check out Wildhoney too if you're into this!
posted by ghostbikes at 12:51 PM on May 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by ghostbikes at 12:51 PM on May 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
Even though most of the bands from the original movement had broken up, their music lived on and was embraced in the ’00s by a batch of so-called “new-gaze” bands: Autolux, Loveliescrushing, Asobi Seksu, Serena-Maneesh, and others.
What? The band name is lovesliescrushing, and calling them "new-gaze" is insulting and incorrect. Their most well-known album is Bloweyelashwish and it came out in 1993. Loveless came out in 1991, Slowdive's Souvlaki came out in 1993, Swervedriver's Mezcal Head came out in '93, Ride's Going Blank Again came out in '92, etc. Maybe on the tail end of the the first generation, but the band should accurately be considered a first-wave shoegaze band that was criminally ignored and is now starting to get more recognition.
posted by naju at 3:02 PM on May 30, 2017 [3 favorites]
What? The band name is lovesliescrushing, and calling them "new-gaze" is insulting and incorrect. Their most well-known album is Bloweyelashwish and it came out in 1993. Loveless came out in 1991, Slowdive's Souvlaki came out in 1993, Swervedriver's Mezcal Head came out in '93, Ride's Going Blank Again came out in '92, etc. Maybe on the tail end of the the first generation, but the band should accurately be considered a first-wave shoegaze band that was criminally ignored and is now starting to get more recognition.
posted by naju at 3:02 PM on May 30, 2017 [3 favorites]
I mean, it would be kinda similar to calling Joan of Arc part of the new wave of emo revival bands inspired by 90's emo. Maybe the author hadn't heard of them but they were definitely around and had been releasing records for decades, and weren't as well-known as other bands in their genre/scene because they were doing weirder and less direct things on their own terms away from the limelight.
posted by naju at 3:15 PM on May 30, 2017
posted by naju at 3:15 PM on May 30, 2017
@naju yeah you're right about loveliescrushing, I was mistaken they're not really second wave.
I was disappointed in the recent shoegaze doc Beautiful Noise that loveliescrushing or even Astrobrite weren't even mentioned at all. I felt bad for Scott Cortez, while Kevin Shields was bankrupting his record company recording Loveless, Scott was creating his flavor of majestic noise, which to me, sounds and feels just as great, with just a portable four track and a handful of pedals.
posted by grobertson at 7:54 PM on May 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
I was disappointed in the recent shoegaze doc Beautiful Noise that loveliescrushing or even Astrobrite weren't even mentioned at all. I felt bad for Scott Cortez, while Kevin Shields was bankrupting his record company recording Loveless, Scott was creating his flavor of majestic noise, which to me, sounds and feels just as great, with just a portable four track and a handful of pedals.
posted by grobertson at 7:54 PM on May 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
In a similar vein, I highly recommend Gleemer. I keep them in heavy rotation.
posted by scottjlowe at 12:59 AM on May 31, 2017
posted by scottjlowe at 12:59 AM on May 31, 2017
Lorelle Meets the Obsolete is an excellent entry from Guadalajara. Love the squeal that haunts its way through "Sealed Scene".
posted by bendybendy at 10:31 AM on May 31, 2017
posted by bendybendy at 10:31 AM on May 31, 2017
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