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Listened to Ukiyogunjou and loved, and I like what I hear, thanks.
All is well again in this world.
While I loved the previous one saudargia, it felt a bit too lo-fi for me, which was worrying but Ukiyogunjou just nullified that fear. Such a great, well balanced album.
I posted some way back on page 10, so here it is again with a few additions. Some are more dream pop or psychedelic, but they're at least tangentially related to shoegaze.
My Bloody Valentine
Slowdive
Swirlies
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Spacemen 3
Lush
(early) Stereolab
His Name Is Alive
Curve
SPC ECO
Astrobrite
Cocteau Twins
Yo La Tengo
Lovesliescrushing
Th' Faith Healers
Flying Saucer Attack
Secret Shine
Teenage Filmstars
Drop Nineteens
The Telescopes
Tokyo Shoegazer
Swallow
Alison's Halo
Fleeting Joys
A.R. Kane
Lilys
LSD and the Search for God
Pinkshinyultrablast
Whirr
Mass of the Fermenting Dregs
Sweet Trip
Have a Nice Life
Black Tambourine
Medicine
equippedwithtowel
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forgeforsaken
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For some newer artists
Cheatahs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0t6mI8vnzY
No Joy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma7HJqVENlc
Ringo Deathstar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQb56S54qOw
equippedwithtowel
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I hold nothing against any Modest Mouse album.
But Moon/Antartica is one of my top 5 albums of the decade.
But Moon/Antartica is one of my top 5 albums of the decade.
equippedwithtowel
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Dude.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsnELWjsCsA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8crIHgjG1_I
GOAT alt-rock album.
vatstep
This poster pulses with an appeal so broad the typical restraints of our societies fall by the wayside.
Nothing is a pretty good current band. They just released their first album this year.
Screaming Meat
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That's my favourite Modest Mouse album. It's corker.
Dude.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsnELWjsCsA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8crIHgjG1_I
GOAT alt-rock album.
NO Johnny Marr, no sale!
jk, will have to give it a try when I have the chance. I like the sound of those tracks above!
*brofist*
The power of Jhonny Marr have no limit
Cosmic Bus
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On the Walkmen front, Pete Bauer's solo album is out now, and is a much better listen than Hamilton's (which was shrill and over-stuffed). It's not a major departure from the band's own work, but manages to create a bit of its own identity rather than simply cranking up the Walkmen dial and hoping for the best.
The single is almost shockingly banal and predictable: 8 minutes of Moroder lite with cookie-cutter DFA production, and oh gee golly, Nancy Whang vocals? Who ever would've expected that. He's got good material in him, but this ain't it. The whole DFA stable was actually fun and kind of refreshing at one time (those early label comps still kill over a decade later) but that sound is so over-saturated now. Only Holy Ghost seems to be doing anything particularly noteworthy, and even that's just elevated by their strong song-writing.
The single is almost shockingly banal and predictable: 8 minutes of Moroder lite with cookie-cutter DFA production, and oh gee golly, Nancy Whang vocals? Who ever would've expected that. He's got good material in him, but this ain't it. The whole DFA stable was actually fun and kind of refreshing at one time (those early label comps still kill over a decade later) but that sound is so over-saturated now. Only Holy Ghost seems to be doing anything particularly noteworthy, and even that's just elevated by their strong song-writing.
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School of Seven Bells, "I Got Knocked Down (But I'll Get Up)"
Alejandra is finishing the album she and Ben were making when he passed away, so we'll at least get one final batch of Seven Bells songs.
Alejandra is finishing the album she and Ben were making when he passed away, so we'll at least get one final batch of Seven Bells songs.
forgeforsaken
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Listening to Sonic Avenues and reminds me of something and I can't place it and it's driving me nuts.
- Slowdive
- Pale Saints
- Medicine
- Tropic of Cancer
- Lovesliescrushing
- Lush
- Lotus Plaza
- The Jesus and Mary Chain
- Luminous Orange
- Asobi Seksu
- The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa
- Astrobrite
- Blonde Redhead
- Cocteau Twins
- Galaxie 500
- Wild Nothing
- Tamaryn
- The Swirlies
- Serena-Maneeh
- Ride
Moon/Antarctica & Lonesome Crowded West are by far MM's best albums.
...Also we're having a plug session and I'd love for some of ya'll to drop by
Thanks for all the suggestions, guys!
I've pretty much been exploring the catalogs of Slowdive and Ride for now. Enjoying Souvlaki and Nowhere to death. Both these bands are much more open, loose, and "breathy" than MBV. They're not really similar at all. Don't get me wrong, I love Loveless, but it's not something I could listen to all day. Loveless sounds a bit dated compared to the other albums I mentioned... I think it might be the drums.
I also can't seem to get The Stone Roses out of my head when I hear Ride. How the hell didn't I know Andy Bell was in them? Huge fan of Oasis.
I've pretty much been exploring the catalogs of Slowdive and Ride for now. Enjoying Souvlaki and Nowhere to death. Both these bands are much more open, loose, and "breathy" than MBV. They're not really similar at all. Don't get me wrong, I love Loveless, but it's not something I could listen to all day. Loveless sounds a bit dated compared to the other albums I mentioned... I think it might be the drums.
I also can't seem to get The Stone Roses out of my head when I hear Ride. How the hell didn't I know Andy Bell was in them? Huge fan of Oasis.
Slowdive is the best, sorry MBV fans.
Medicine's One More is still my single favorite shoegaze track ever though
Medicine's One More is still my single favorite shoegaze track ever though
I don't really consider Slowdive shoegaze. They lack the noise that's characteristic of the genre. They're definitely more dream pop. With that said, I don't really think it's fair to compare Slowdive and MBV when they both do totally different things - especially once Pygmalion came into the picture.
Surprised no one has mentioned Swervedriver re: Shoegaze. Unless I missed it.
Same. I couldn't get into their previous records but the new one blew me away. I just wish it was longer than 30 minutes.
Shoegaze is basically a subgenre of dreampop. And a lot of shoegazer bands aren't really that noisey, like Pale Saints for example. I'm always surprised when people say Loveless got them into Shoegazing, that's a tough cookie and more likely to scare you away from the genre if you ask me. Slowdive and Pale Saints (and even Ride) are much easier to get in to.
One other important factor for defining those origin shoegazer bands is also their origin by the way. Slowdive came up right in the epi centre of the genre in southern England. They stand at the beginning of the UK pop press their new darling. Leaving behind Madchester and boarding the shoegaze train.
I understand that. There's no question that Slowdive is a part of the shoegaze "scene," so in that sense they are shoegaze. When I think of shoegaze in terms of the sound, though, I think of dream pop and noise in equal measure. If you've just got the reverb and ethereal vocals you fit the dream pop criteria but not shoegaze.
Really though, it doesn't matter much either way. And that said, there are a lot of bands that I don't consider full-on shoegaze that I like way more than bands I do consider shoegaze. I'll take Slowdive over Ride any day, for instance.
That's a hard thing to define. What brought me in Shoegaze was Kinoko Teikoku, and they have a lot of indie rock mixed with shoegaze. When I went to search more stuff, I was kinda shocked, especially since the first thing I listened was MBV. I proceeded to listen to No Joy, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, A Place to Bury Strangers, Melody's Echo Chamber, Asobi Seksu, The Stargazer Lillies, Ride, Slowdive, Luminous Orange and Hartfield. With the exception Ride and Luminous Orange, I felt that they're were more Dream Pop than Shoegaze, since they lacked the strong guitars and noise, and were more ethereal and/or mellow in sound. To me Shoegaze is more along the lines of Kinoko Teikoku's Eureka, Tokyo Shoegazer, especially Bright, or Whirr (thanks who mentioned it).
Screaming Meat
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That's immense.
Swervedriver are gods I feel guilty now, also want to add Skywave who really took noise in shoegaze to the next level.Surprised no one has mentioned Swervedriver re: Shoegaze. Unless I missed it.
Same. I couldn't get into their previous records but the new one blew me away. I just wish it was longer than 30 minutes.
my bad. i should have been specific. i meant the australian band. they don't seem to have a bandcamp profile i can link to but the first song on the album is on soundcloud
https://soundcloud.com/lowlife-sydney/dogging-lp-version
uh the album art is not exactly work friendly
https://soundcloud.com/lowlife-sydney/dogging-lp-version
uh the album art is not exactly work friendly
I went back to Total Control's Typical System today and it got even better, top tier for the year now. Last time I loved Side A but wasn't as big on B, this time the run from Black Spring through Safety Net was incredible
Not top ten for me but I like it a ton. been meaning to go back to their older records.
Not top ten for me but I like it a ton. been meaning to go back to their older records.
equippedwithtowel
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Fucking top ten album, angling to see them in september.
chris121580
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Man, this new Reigning Sound song is a total jam! This is now my most anticipated album of this year. Out July 15th. If you dig these tracks, check out their album Love & Curses
My My
https://soundcloud.com/mergerecords/reigning-sound-my-my
Falling Rain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQaZ4hhghQo
My My
https://soundcloud.com/mergerecords/reigning-sound-my-my
Falling Rain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQaZ4hhghQo
I saw Damon Albarn live last weekend and it was truly a thrilling experience. He devoted his performance to Bobby Womack, only hours before the gig Damon heard his good friend past away. It was quite special. He also dedicated Photographs (You Are Taking Now) to The Child of Lov, a Dutch musician who past away last year at the age of 26. He also performed Clint Eastwood with a local Dutch rapper and he did To Binge (also Gorillaz) with Yuki from Little Dragon who were also at the festival that day. Emotionally and performance wise an amazing gig, Damon truly is a musical hero.
Video of Clint Eastwoord in terrible quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpThYf_9R00
They filmed the whole show for live streaming but they're not allowed to put it online sadly
Also saw Parquet Courts live for the first time with Sunbathing Animal stuff, really nice. Also loved how they didn't care about the audience wanting to go nuts and just played She's Rollin' and Instant Disassembly in a row. Bit weird that they skipped Stoned and Starving though, but they were really great again so I won't complain.
Video of Clint Eastwoord in terrible quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpThYf_9R00
They filmed the whole show for live streaming but they're not allowed to put it online sadly
Also saw Parquet Courts live for the first time with Sunbathing Animal stuff, really nice. Also loved how they didn't care about the audience wanting to go nuts and just played She's Rollin' and Instant Disassembly in a row. Bit weird that they skipped Stoned and Starving though, but they were really great again so I won't complain.
I have to say their live performance was a mixed bag for me when I saw them recently. While tracks such as Black & White, Bodies and Stones and Starving mad everyone all excited and, to a certain degree, mad with energy, they played Instant Disassembly and into the Garden towards the end and those two tracks dragged on forever. It was a point where everyone was tired and you could actually feel the level of interest dropping across the room. They did end the show with Yr no Stoner and Light up Gold I and II, which made the whole a bit bearable, but the fact that they looked slackers along with the a bit of damped atmosphere in some their tracks made the whole event a tad bit disappointing.
I admire their devil-may-care attitude, and their lazy, unsupervised image along with their more improvised and spontaneously focused song-writing, however, in certain moods and expectation, those qualities might be very detrimental to my enjoyment of their music. And its the very same reason why I am quite mild about Pavement as whole.
Having said that Black & White is probably one of my favourite tracks this year.
They played the slow and longer songs near the end for me as well. Instant Dissambly was played to perfection, pretty much like it's on the record. But She's Rollin' was dragged on like forever. Playing guitar by scratching the microphone across the strings and stuff like that. It was a bit much and too long at a certain point. Luckily that was the only moment they did something like that. Especially the first +-25 minutes were on top speed, they hardly took a break between songs.
Day 2 is looking great, but I don't think this is the right venue for Mogwai and B&S.
just watched all 100ish minutes of Patrick Stickles of Titus Andronicus announcing a series of 7 7"s, released every 7 weeks starting 7/7/14, except the first release is two 7"s. it's rarer old material remastered. Every release after will be a new +@ song split with a song from a band/friend of +@. the second release (third 7")'s music is on soundcloud already: Titus Andronicus - Stranded and Wicked Kind - Sport (wicked kind has Eric Harm and Julian Veronesi of +@)
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Relevant to the shoegaze discussion earlier: Japanese label Kiiro just released a free comp of [mostly] j-gaze
http://kiirorecords.bandcamp.com/album/forever-shoegaze
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x1ogpfuwpsjx1qw/きいろれこーず - FOREVER SHOEGAZE.zip
http://kiirorecords.bandcamp.com/album/forever-shoegaze
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x1ogpfuwpsjx1qw/きいろれこーず - FOREVER SHOEGAZE.zip
I've never been there but I guess you're saying the acoustics are shit in that venue? Would be a shame to organize a festival with mostly great bands in a shitty venue.
Acoustics are fine, but it's just a big hall. B&S is a band i'd really love to see in a theatre style venue (like the Olympia or Trianon in Paris). Here it's going to be a short, festival-style set. Other than that, the festival itself is okay.
btw Linius, Rock en Seine released the set times http://www.rockenseine.com/artistes/programme/