Chicago-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.
Posts Tagged ‘Shoegazer’
Shoegazer Sunday: Airiel’s “Funerals”
Sunday, February 2nd, 2014Shoegazer 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.
Shoegazer Sunday: Tamaryn’s “Love Fade”
Sunday, December 29th, 2013Tamaryn (New York/LA/San Francisco by way of New Zealand) gets compared to Mazzy Star a lot, and you can hear that, but The Jesus and Mary Chain is another good point of comparison. Here’s “Love Fade”.
Shoegaze Sunday: Swell Cover of Slowdive’s “Machine Gun”
Sunday, December 22nd, 2013Here’s an ethereal electronica cover of Slowdive’s “Machine Gun” by (if I’m decrypting the credits correctly) “Dick Isreal and The Soothsayer with Neon Signal.” So a teamup of three musical entities I’ve never heard of.
I think Amy Archibald is The Soothsayer, and has a beautiful (albeit highly processed) voice on this song. I’m guessing the “Lightwave” of the video title is the theoretical genre this belongs to. Whatever it is it’s very pretty…
Shoegazer Sunday: Bailter Space’s “Robot World”
Sunday, December 15th, 2013Here’s New Zealand’s Baltier Space with the title track from their Robot World shoegaze album, which checks in on the crunchier side of classic shoegaze:
Shoegazer Sunday: Eluvium’s “Don’t Get Any Closer”
Sunday, December 8th, 2013I was in the mood for mellow, and Eluvium‘s “Don’t Get Any Closer” (which has a definite ambient film score tinge to it) fits the mellow bill.
Shoegazer Sunday: Golden Garden’s “Ghostwood”
Sunday, November 24th, 2013I was in the mood for something mellow, and Golden Garden‘s “Ghostwood” admirably fits the bill, even if the video comes in almost entirely on the cheap side of the “cheap but arty” continuum.
Lead singer Aubrey Rachel Violet Bramble (if in fact that’s a single person’s real name and not a real name + fake name combo) has the most obvious “little girl” voice this side of Alison Shaw of Cranes.