Here’s “Innocent,” another track of Japanese band Civic‘s debut album Toilet Monster.
Civic gets compared to Supercar, and while I can hear the resemblance, Civic has a rawer sound, like a garage band who just started meshing a few weeks ago. I like that high energy rawness, and some have labeled Civic “Noise Pop,” if that’s a real thing.
I’ve found and ordered Toilet Monster from a domestic source, and I hope to have a more detailed report if/when it comes in.
Since I have a lot of weird dreams, and remember the Mellotron from Genesis, I was already inclined to like Dead Mellotron‘s “Weird Dreams.”
The Cherry Wave is a shoegaze band out of Glasgow that specializes in fuzzy walls of reverb. Here’s “Blush” off the EP of the same name.
You can buy the EP for whatever you think fair off BandCamp.
Given that Popes John Paul II and John XXIII were canonized as saints today, here’s Adorable’s “I’ll Be Your Saint”. Never mind that they’re more Dreampop than Shoegaze, or that I’ve already done a Shoegazer Sunday post; two posts for two saints!
Mercury Rev is an American ban that got dubbed Shoegaze early on, then evolved in a more pop direction. “You’re My Queen” is actually one of their more pop numbers, but I think it fits nicely into the shoegaze category somewhere between Black Tambourine and Polyphonic Spree.
Danish band Spokraket offers garage band psychedelic surf rock married to Here Come the Warm Jets-era Brain Eno, offering plenty of distorted guitars and end up sounding like a low-fi version of Black Tambourine. “Just Go Spit Out Another Lie” is pretty much a steady state Shoegaze song: Like the riff and groove? Just wait around and there will be plenty more of it coming down the pike…
And here’s an earlier live version of it, when it was called “(Drifting Away In) Solitary Dreams”
Lights That Change is a neo-Shoegaze band out of the UK. With “Beautiful Soul” they offer up a bright, gauzy, floating slab of prettiness with some great female vocals.
Sadly, it seems that vocalist Lisa VonH has already split with the band.
There’s still some Sunday left, so here’s Center of the Sun again with “Home”.
Yet another cover, this one UK’s Stumbleine covering Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You.”