All These Fallen Trees sounds a bit more post-rock than Shoegaze, but “God Created Earth, We Created Heaven” hits a sweet mellow spot between Midsummer and Explosions in the Sky.
Posts Tagged ‘Shoegazer’
Shoegazer Sunday: All These Fallen Trees’ “God Created Earth, We Created Heaven”
Sunday, March 16th, 2014Sunday Shoegazer: The Dune’s “Post Office Rock”
Sunday, March 2nd, 2014For your Sunday dose of Shoegaze, here’s Australian shoegaze band The Dunes (sometimes spelled TheDunes) with “Post Office Rock,” another entry in the “Damn, waltz-time Shoegaze sounds really good” sweepsteaks. (See also: Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You” and Auburn Lull’s “Arc of an Outsider.”)
Shoegazer Sunday: Skies of Ember Covers Slowdive’s “Catch the Breeze”
Sunday, February 23rd, 2014I really am on a Slowdive cover kick. Skies of Ember is a Filipino band, and although it says so nowhere in the title or description, this video is actually a live instrumental cover of Slowdive’s “Catch the Breeze.”
Sunday Shoegazer: Center of the Sun Covers Slowdive’s “Machine Gun”
Sunday, February 16th, 2014Evidently I just can’t get enough of Slowdive covers. Here’s the now defunct (or on hiatus) Center of the Sun doing a crunchy, guitar-drenched cover of “Machine Gun.”
They also did a cover of Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You.” Obviously this is a band on my wavelength…
Shoegazer Sunday: Silvania’s “Trilce”
Sunday, February 9th, 2014Silvania is Peruvian duo currently resident in Spain (and not a manufacturer of inferior lightbulbs). “Trilce” is from the “floaty, spacy” branch of Shoegaze.
I hope you like religious statuary…
Shoegazer Sunday: Airiel’s “Funerals”
Sunday, February 2nd, 2014Chicago-based Airiel’s newest EP, Kid Games, features some truly beautiful work. including “Funereals,” which has an ethereal wall-of-sound that reminds me of Popol Vu’s soundtrack to Aquirre: The Wrath of God.
Shoegazer Sunday: The Asteroid Shop’s “Dandelion”
Sunday, January 26th, 2014Here again is Austin’s own The Asteroid Shop with a live version of their song “Dandelion.” Imagine a cross between Mazzy Star and The National.
The guitar sound is fine, but they would be helped by having a female co-singer to harmonize with. They could really use a Hope Sandoval…
Shoegazer Sunday: Bleach’s “Surround”
Sunday, January 19th, 2014Here’s old-school UK Shoegaze band Bleach with “Surround.”
Shoegazer Sunday: The High Violets’ “Sparkle”
Sunday, January 12th, 2014Time for another dose of the High Violets:
Shoegaze Sunday: School of Seven Bells’ “Put Your Sad Down”
Sunday, January 5th, 2014This is going to stretch the definition of Shoegaze, since “Put Your Sad Down” leans more heavily in the TechnoPop direction (imagine a cross between Sarah McLaughlin and 1984-era Eurythmics, with maybe of soupcon of Peter Gabriel’s “Shaking the Tree”). But School of Seven Bells made their bones as a Shoegaze/Dreampop outfit, and after listening to the opening, I decided I needed to have it. It’s off their five song EP of the same name, and Alejandra Deheza’s auto-harmonies are very tasty indeed.
If you find yourself losing patience with it, skip from any time after 2:30 or so to 9:20
I’ll also have to check out their new album Ghostory.
Sadly, Benjamin Curtis, one of band’s the two founding members, died of lymphoma in December.