Available at SHOP.ALTPRESS.COM. It’s a trick that only somebody who’s already put in her 10,000 hours could pull off so well, or maybe it’s just in her blood. Cole’s experiences in rehab became the inspiration for the group’s latest record, Deceiver, and while the album displays the group’s darkest sound yet, it also ends up being their most earnest. Her self-titled debut album arrived in March, but long before that, she spent three years playing synth in Cherry Glazerr, arranged music for Curtis Harding, Wild Nothing and Vagabon and opened shows for Snail Mail, Soccer Mommy and Mitski. Shoegaze is a genre of late '80s and early '90s British indie rock, named after the bands' motionless performing style, where they stood on stage and stared at the floor while they played. But this single-player isn’t just another underground artist putting out pieces of the oversaturated mega-genre of Deftones-core. And it’s not quite the shoegaze as we know it. “Shoegaze” was a term invented circa 1990 to describe a new breed on UK Indie guitar bands inspired by the likes of 4AD Records, My Bloody Valentine and US acts like Sonic Youth. Additional updates can be found on … —Lizzie Manno, Like their band name might suggest, Lightning Bug make soothing music rooted in the elements. The LP shifts between states of matter, and getting sucked into their dynamic compositions is easy. ,” on the other hand, will surprise you with how beautifully trap beats can be merged with gleaming guitars and washed-out atmospheres. Like many albums of heady hypnotics, you know the finale is going to melt your psyche, and the two-track curtain close (“How Do You” and “Feel Now”) is a shoegaze-tinted psych-pop hurrah for the ages. —Lizzie Manno, Austin, Texas five-piece Temple of Angels may only have a pair of EPs and singles to their name, but their gothic dream pop is far too gorgeous to overlook. Music Reviews: Lights at the Ends of Tunnels by How To Be Dead released in 2021 via Morning Breath Records. Meanwhile, Isa Holliday’s silky vocals remain calm and soothing, whether fusing with dreamy, slightly dissonant soundscapes or diving into a dark storm. We can call it many things, from hyperpop to HexD to shoegaze trap. —Danielle Chelosky, In a stark contrast to most shoegaze groups, Daniel Monkman’s self-described “moccasin-gaze,” which he records under the name Zoon, is informed by his First Nations heritage. Anything earlier than January 2021, please post in the main r/shoegaze. Though the Crystallize reissue and Moondiverreleases generated more buzz, their “Revive” single featured the band’s first new music in years. Taguig City-based shoegaze/dream pop solo act Noel Cruz has released a music video for “So Rewarding”, the lead single and the first track off of his 2020 … —Lizzie Manno, On their second album and first for Run For Cover Records, Horse Jumper of Love perfect their driving slowcore while discarding some of the moping that characterized their self-titled debut. and -metal or spot in Riot Fest 2021’s lineup. with furiously gyrating guitars. , are rapidly gaining traction after having only released an eight-minute-long demo, and not without good reason. Newest Shoegaze Albums & Song Releases. New Artist Spotlight: 1st Base Runner Is the New Electro Shoegaze Sound ‘All Thoughts’ Will Turn To [Video] Haunting, emotive and immersive, Austin artist's upcoming album is dream pop for … So which genre are they? This atmospheric alt metal-gaze with heavy. todavía - Orange Faint of Sky (2020) Artist: todavía. Throbbing with bit-crushed layers of beats, glitched-out vocals and hazy melodies, Aethernet sounds 100% digital and 1,000% humanly emotional. Wherever on the planet you are. ,” the band are questioning the nature and fairness of our reality in their lyrics while advocating for social justice and contributing to real-life changes in their community and the world. The expansion will occur in two phases, beginning in the summer of 2020 or once the Secretary has certified that the new IT system is fully implemented. is so memorable because it brushes the same pleasure centers as the genre’s titans without retracing the steps of their predecessors or peers. Sure, there’s no way to start a conversation about Avenade without bringing up Deftones. Even though it’s been a minute since the rawring 2000s, their releases will definitely find a way to your heart, whether your profile pic is still your favorite anime character or you just recently got into the dark side of the, hype. Metal gigs, underground raves, parties, strawberry ice cream, moments of ecstasy and emotional pits are just some of the mental pictures Strawberry Hospital’s sounds bring up. After the group released their sophomore album, Is the Is Are, Cole entered a long-haul inpatient treatment for heroin addiction, a struggle that became public in 2013 when he and his then-girlfriend Sky Ferreira were busted for possession. By Unite Asia on January 21, 2021 @uniteasia. These past several years have been fruitful for the genre, so rather than recognize the classic shoegaze bands that are still around, we want to highlight some of our favorite bands that are still in their first iteration. throwbacks and compelling vocals conjures some of the best memories from the 2000s scene while sounding fresh and personal. —Danielle Chelosky, Narrow Head’s brand of shoegaze is groovy yet dark. —Lizzie Manno, Technically, Sasami Ashworth (best known by just her all-caps first name) is a new artist, but she’s actually been doing this for years. In such dark times as these, shoegaze is the perfect refuge—depending on your mood, you can choose to channel a track’s profound, chaotic glory or its palpable brooding. Indeed, … With thick sheets of punky post-rock and vocals that border on folk and emo, their second album New Hell is hard to pin down—it’s more raucous than your average emo record, but more painfully heartfelt than your average post-rock record. Milly stopped by Atlanta’s Paste Studio to perform songs from the EP, and their warm-hearted, syrupy rock songs make them a band to watch in 2020. Frontman Dimitri Giannopoulos doesn’t just make passing, strange moments of insignificance feel like the center of the universe, but when his specificity connects with you, you’ll feel an intersection of happiness and sadness that’s hard to articulate: “Passenger seat floors a graveyard for / Puddle walkers soaked and ruined shoes.” The unhurried sonics of So Divine may not be a great record to put on when you’ve been blessed with the aux cord at a party, but it is the perfect record to listen to on headphones when you’re laying in bed at night, lonely and staring at the ceiling, trying to decide what shade of white said ceiling is. It’s also about introverts collaborating online from five different countries and uploading their dreamy tracks to SoundCloud. The chaotic hisses of “Landscapes” are the sound of being pulled in many directions simultaneously, and the beachy dissonance of the title track is the sound of struggle and rebirth. The band were the epitome of the new shoegaze … Label: Self Released. share. ,” our new favorite try-not-to-cry challenge. That and their obsession with pedalboards. Issued in early 2016, the … Handrums, shakers and droning chants coalesce on “Was & Always Will Be,” a track from his recent LP Bleached Wavves, resulting in a swirl of reflective sounds and emotions. There’s one essential regularity persisting throughout their discography, though: the buildup-explosion framework. —Lizzie Manno, This project of Kristina Esfandiari (Whirr, King Woman) finds her at her most vulnerable and emotional. Her self-described “heaven metal” is crushingly beautiful—it mixes slowcore, drone-pop and ambient music, and despite its dark sonic shades, it’s a hopeful album, especially in its context: The album was made while she was grieving the death of her friend and artistic inspiration, Colin Ward, and it’s now dedicated to his memory. The quintet’s latest full-length, 2018’s Hypnic Jerks, melds psych-pop, punk, noise and drone, and while their studio recordings curate pacifying worlds of shadows and shimmers, their live shows are surprisingly vigorous. Raw, down-to-earth and heavenly, You Can Never Have A Long Enough Head Start, sounds like finally hugging a friend, the one who truly gets you, after an eternity of social distancing. It’s also because of crazy mood swings in his style that can go anywhere from hard-hitting noise rock (“Even So”) to hopelessly romantic, brutally naive and extremely melancholic, well, shoegaze. There’s class A new music releases everywhere you look right now across the five genres covered in our New Post Punk Dark Wave Cold Wave Shoegaze Post Rock Playlist on Spotify. A new kind of reality demands new kinds of shoegaze. Best comment ever. Style: Shoegaze. Though its references to ’90s groups like Lush and Slowdive are clear, the way it experiments with pace and electronic instrumentation gives it a fresh glow. And Floral Tattoo records aren’t the only reason to love them. This time around, the Boston trio’s desolation is mostly confined to the dejected guitars, which exude as much angst as a pop-punk chord progression, as much muscle as a metal riff and as much sonic weight as a shoegaze solo. Their sound is staticky, and the vocals sound more like echoes—like they’re playing a show at the local DIY venue and you can hear from a few blocks over. So which genre are they? Now check out “, Sure, there’s no way to start a conversation about, . Tracks such as “Alone,” on the other hand, will surprise you with how beautifully trap beats can be merged with gleaming guitars and washed-out atmospheres. That and their, Neptune Gomez, the mysterious entity behind, kid. Not only because Matt Hawkins’ vocals tend to sound a lot like Gerard Way’s in the emotional parts. The band’s 2020 follow-up Agitprop Alterna is much broader, thanks in part to the live members that appear here like vocalists Jo-Anne Hyun and Isabella Mingione and drummer Brian Alvarez, and also due to its emphasis on a more dynamic sound. And there’s hardly any other youth, historically and currently, drawn to escapism more than Eastern European kids (hello!). Cardinal Fuzz is a psychedelic rock, kraut rock record label that releases amazing psych rock music. One thing to point out - only new releases for December 2020 to go on here please. A new kind of reality demands new kinds of shoegaze. This atmospheric alt metal-gaze with heavy grunge tendencies, subtle nü-metal throwbacks and compelling vocals conjures some of the best memories from the 2000s scene while sounding fresh and personal. Posted by 1 hour ago. At least that’s how it sounds to someone who doesn’t understand her lyrics and has to rely on positive hooks in English. An imperious statement, ‘Bedroom’ matched the band’s impeccable influences – the glacial sigh of Slowdive, the … Listen to the full playlist on Spotify right here. As I mentioned in the intro, the sudden and surprising return of Tokyo Shoegazer was pretty much the biggest story in Japanese shoegaze in 2019. … A Cat Called León 4. Every song, though, is tinged with darkness, especially on the edgy 2018 release Loverboy / Dog Days. Their songs provoke stark reactions, and they’re the perfect antidote to mindlessly dreamy music and unremarkable bedroom pop. Swim … The EP is a collection of three singles plus a previously unreleased eponymous track, and it’s a slow-drip of steamy guitars, casual yet heartfelt vocals and ephemeral, abstract love songs. The Russian quartet’s most recent album, MU!, merges the experimental sides of Stereolab, Wand and Neu! Its softer moments are painfully sad, and its heavier moments are headbang-worthy. There’s one essential regularity persisting throughout their discography, though: the buildup-explosion framework. —Danielle Chelosky, Philadelphia’s Nothing have been at it for years, churning out some of the best albums and even the best b-sides. Post your **NEW** shoegaze tracks released in February 2021 here. —Lizzie Manno, Michigan trio Greet Death put out one of the best guitar records of 2019, and if you’re a fan of overdrive, you should run—not walk—to the nearest record store to buy it. And it’s not quite the shoegaze as we know it. With every record, the band proves themselves, solidifying their dark, heavy shoegaze that reckons with addiction, pain and love. , in 2020, and are definitely ones to watch for their emotional and shoegaze-y fusion of rock and trap. October 13 2020. It was an empha… and shoegaze have a lot in common, though blending twinkly guitar picking, emotional vocals and layered guitar landscapes in a coherent way is a true rarity. And it’s this reverb-dense continuity connecting transcendental soundscapes and thick walls of sound, angelic singing and screams that allows to loosely tag them as shoegaze. Mountaineer Bloodletting Lifeforce Released 05/22/20; RIDE This Is Not A Safe Place Wichita Recordings Released 08/16/19; The Soft Cavalry The Soft Cavalry Spanning veterans like DIIV or Nothing and up-and-comers like Milly or Temple of Angels, we present to you 20 of our current favorite shoegaze (or shoegaze-adjacent) bands, listed in alphabetical order.