Here’s “Beneath,” a nice, melodic song from classic shoegazers Ride:
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Shoegazer Sunday: Ride’s “Beneath”
Sunday, December 23rd, 2012Shoegazer Sunday: Echodrone’s “Cold Snap”
Sunday, December 16th, 2012Busy week. Here’s more Echodrone, this time with “Cold Snap,” which is pleasantly haunting.
Their Bon Voyage is starting to sound like a good candidate for Shoegazer album of the year. Any others you can suggest?
Shoegazer Sunday: …And the Earth Swarmed With Them’s “Everyone Will Fade”
Sunday, December 9th, 2012Here’s …And the Earth Swarmed With Them‘s atmospheric, goth-y “Everyone Will Fade,” off their album The Fading Voice Of The Old Era Speaks To Us, But Where Are The Ears Left To Hear It?, which does suggest a certain sensibility…
Shoegazer Sunday: Tears Run Rings’ “Waiting for the End”
Sunday, December 2nd, 2012Here’s Tears Run Rings, a shoegazer band from America’s west coast, with their very Slowdive-esque “Waiting for the End.”
Shoegazer Sunday: Slowdive’s “Losing Today”
Sunday, November 25th, 2012Were it not for Slowdive’s Just for a Day, I wouldn’t being doing these Shoegazer Sunday posts in the first place. Poking around YouTube, there seems to be a lot more Slowdive songs that never made it onto their three studio albums than I realized. “Losing Today,” a sad, echoey, moody piece perfect for teenage girls to mope around to on cold, rainy days, is off their Blue Day compilation album.
Shoegazer Sunday: The Emerald Down’s “Sometime the Sun Shines”
Sunday, November 18th, 2012Here’s The Emerald Down’s “Sometime the Sun Shines” off their Aquarium album. It starts out sounding a bit like Nirvana’s “All Apologies” (no bad thing), but then shifts more firmly into Shoegaze territory.
“Why Doesn’t MTV Play Music Videos Any More?”
Monday, November 12th, 2012And here’s the very NSFW answer:
(Hat tip: Moe Lane)
Shoegazer Sunday: Echodrone’s “Under An Impressive Sky”
Sunday, November 11th, 2012Here’s Echodrone’s “Under an Impressive Sky,” with a video assembled from lots of tasty atomic testing footage (which, if I’m not mistaken, is from the 29 kiloton Apple-2 atomic test performed under Operation Teapot on May 5, 1955 (5/5/55).)
For more Echodrone, see here.
For more information on atomic testing, see Samuel Glasstone’s The Effects of Nuclear Weapons.
Shoegazer Sunday: No Joy’s “Pacific Pride” (plus the Czech film Daisies)
Sunday, November 4th, 2012Today’s dose of Shoegaze comes to you from all-girl Canadian Shoegaze duo No Joy for their song “Pacific Pride.”
Interestingly, their video seems to be taken entirely from the 1966 Czech surrealist/absurdest film Daisies, which I was previously unaware of, but which seems to have quite a cult following. It shows up on the list of 1,001 movies to see before you die (which is a pretty good list), and looking at clips, it’s tempting to say that acid arrived in Czechoslovakia a year before the Summer of Love, as it looks pretty trippy, a film where the sixties became The Sixties. It also appears to be part of the Criterion collection Eclipse Series 32: Pearls of the Czech New Wave.
I think I’m going to have to see this some time.
The whole film is available on YouTube so, hey, here it is.
Looks like you’ll need some 3D glasses for part of it…
Shoegazer Sunday: Lemon’s Chair’s “Swallowtail”
Sunday, October 28th, 2012Here’s another beautiful song from Japan’s Lemon’s Chair. However, “Swallowtail,” unlike most of their songs, is available in the U.S. on iTunes, and I think it’s my favorite of their work.
This is the fourth Lemon’s Chair song I’ve put up, and yes, I like them a lot.