Another Austin Shoegaze band (“band” in this case evidently being one guy, Stephen Thurman) shows up. “Feels Like Fire” sounds like Shoegaze by way of psychadelia with a little Devo thrown in for good measure.
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Shoegaze Sunday: The Telewire’s “Feels Like Fire”
Sunday, September 8th, 2013Shoegazer Sunday: The Great Wilderness’ “Dark Horse”
Sunday, August 25th, 2013The Great Wilderness is an all-girl post-punk band from Costa Rica, and “Dark House” has a nice gaze sound to the guitars.
Shoegazer Sunday: 93MillionMilesFromTheSun’s “Waiting There”
Sunday, August 18th, 2013Here’s UK nugaze band 93MillionMilesFromTheSun (yes, they jam the letters all up together like that; probably works well for Twitter) with “Waiting There.”
Shoegazer Sunday: Highspire’s “Glacier”
Sunday, August 11th, 2013After meaning to for a while, I finally picked up Highspire’s Aquatic, which is definitely a strong Shoegaze album. Here’s “Glacier,” my favorite track off it.
Shoegazer Sunday: Alcian Blue’s “Carousel”
Sunday, August 4th, 2013Better late than never, here’s the now-defunct Alcian Blue with “Carousel”:
Can’t Sleep, The Clown Will Eat Me
Thursday, August 1st, 2013Via Gardner Dozois’ Facebook comes news that it’s International Clown Week. I don’t suffer from Clownophobia, but I’ve known people who do.
So let’s take this moment to remember Bart Simpson’s awesome bed:
Alice Cooper even did a song:
And speaking of bed:
Maybe International Clown Week exists to remind us it’s just three months until Halloween…
Ode to Joy Played on a Theremin in a Matryoshka Doll
Wednesday, July 31st, 2013“The players here are using devices called Matryomins. They’re single-oscillator theremins that happen to be contained inside a matryoshka doll.”
167 of them.
Shoegazer Sunday: Belle and Sebastian’s “Sleep Around the Clock”
Sunday, July 28th, 2013Here’s another “Is it Shoegaze or not” entry, with Belle and Sebastian’s “Sleep Around the Clock,” which is more bouncy retro low-fi pop, but there’s enough of a shoegaze tinge to it (a little like Black Tambourine) that I’m throwing it in here.
Plus I like the sciency theme of the video. So there.
Shoegaze Sunday: Alcest’s “Beings of Light”
Sunday, July 21st, 2013I can’t decide whether Alcest is Shoegaze, Depressive Metal, or some offshoot of the RenFaire school of ProgRock (more long-forgotten French prog band Manticore than Jethro Tull). Here’s “Beings of Light,” which features a female lead singer rather the usual metal “screaming with a mouthful of gravel” that seems to have become standard in the genre, which they do on some of their other songs.
Whatever it is, it’s interesting enough to be worth a listen.
Happy 44th Birthday, Apollo 11
Saturday, July 20th, 2013To celebrate the 4th anniversary of the moon landing, here’s footage from For All Mankind, with Brian’s Eno’s “An Ending (Ascent)” on the soundtrack.
I recommend both the movie and the soundtrack.