Somehow I’ve managed not to put up a song by first wave British Shoegazer band Chapterhouse yet, so here’s “Pearl” to rectify the omission.
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Shoegazer Sunday: Chapterhouse’s “Pearl”
Sunday, March 3rd, 2013Shoegazer Sunday: Asobi Seksu’s “Never Understand”
Sunday, February 24th, 2013Asobi Seksu covering a Jesus and Mary Chain song? Yeah, that’s shoegaze enough for me.
It also faintly reminds me of Asobi Seksu’s own “Nefy & Girly.”
Shoegazer Sunday: MilanKu’s “Hypomanie”
Sunday, February 17th, 2013I was looking for more songs by the band Hypomanie when I stumbled across this song by French Canadian band MilanKu. It’s a bit more in the post-rock/depressive metal continuum than pure Shoegaze, but, I think, close enough.
Shoegazer Sunday: Murnau’s “Winter Breath”
Sunday, February 10th, 2013Here’s the pleasant, verging on ambient “Winter Breath” by Italian band Murnau.
I’m guessing they’re named after the German film director.
Shoegazer Sunday: Skywave’s “Nothing Left to Say”
Sunday, February 3rd, 2013I don’t know much about Skywave beyond what’s on their MySpace page, which mentioned they’re from Fredericksburg, Virginia. With that deeply uninformative introduction out of the way, here’s the deeply reverb-drenched “Nothing Left to Say” off their album Synthstatic.
Shoegazer Sunday: Echodrone’s “Time”
Sunday, January 27th, 2013Here’s Echodrone’s cover of The Alan Parsons’ Project’s “Time” from their Mixtape for Duckie covers album. The video has less than a hundred views as I type this, so I’m happy to showcase something that actually qualifies as new! Most cover albums do nothing for me, even by artists I really like (see also: Scratch My Back and Strange Little Girls), but everything I’ve heard from this I liked so much, I just went ahead and bought it
See how long it takes you to figure out what the video is about, something I twigged to very early, and which ties into themes explored in their previous videos.
Shoegazer Sunday: Whipped Cream’s “Observatory Crest”
Sunday, January 20th, 2013A Swedish shoegazer cover of a Captain Beefheart sing? Check.
Shoegazer Sunday: Hypomanie’s “A City in Stereo”
Sunday, January 13th, 2013Another dose of Hypomanie to end another long week.
Shoegazer Sunday: Hypomanie’s “If Only The Seas Were Merciful”
Sunday, January 6th, 2013Here’s Hypomanie’s “If Only The Seas Were Merciful,” a remarkably pleasant piece considering they were formerly a Black Metal band!
This is from their amusingly titled album Calm Down, You Weren’t Set on Fire.
Shoegazer Sunday: Lemon’s Chair’s “What You Want”
Sunday, December 30th, 2012For your Sunday dose of Shoegaze, here’s Japan’s Lemon’s Chair covering My Bloody Valentine’s “What You Want.” I actually prefer it to the original, mainly because the tonalities are more pleasing to my ear.
This is evidently off a Japanese compilation of My Bloody Valentine covers called Yellow Loveless.