From Japan comes Clams with “Sundae Bird.” The first 48 seconds are space music drone, but after that the catchy dreampop tune kicks in.
Posts Tagged ‘Shoegazer’
Shoegazer Sunday: Clams’ “Sundae Bird”
Sunday, April 7th, 2013Shoegazer Sunday: Pastel Blue’s “Ariel”
Sunday, March 31st, 2013Another Sunday, another obscure Japanese Shoegaze band. This time it’s Pastel Blue with “Ariel.”
A lot of people compare them to Slowdive, and this songs tells you way.
Shoegazer Sunday: Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s “Antennas to Heaven”
Sunday, March 24th, 2013I’ve tried listening to Godspeed You! Black Emperor before, but nothing clicked until I chanced across “Antennas to Heaven,” the fourth track from Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven. The first four minutes are sort of random sound assemblage, but after that there are several extremely interesting segments, recalling everything from the end of “Layla” to Mike Oldfield’s Hergest Ridge, with a lot of tasty gaze and post-rock in-between.
And the entire album seems to be on YouTube as well:
Shoegazer Sunday: Mirage in the Water’s “Chimera Panorama” (plus The Hour-Glass Sanatorium)
Sunday, March 17th, 2013What is it with Shoegaze bands and surreal Communist-era Eastern European films? First No Joy used the Czech film Daisies. Now here’s Mirage in the Water’s “Chimera Panorama,” whose video features clips from the 1973 Polish film The Hour-Glass Sanatorium, which looks extremely weird and interesting.
And it being the Internet, the entirety of The Hour-Glass Sanatorium is available online as well:
The video is in black and white, but the film is in fairly glorious color.
Shoegazer Sunday: The Asteroid Shop’s “Destroyer”
Sunday, March 10th, 2013Austin’s own The Asteroid Shop presents “Destroyer,” a video full of stop-motion plastic dinosaur goodness.
I may have to catch one of their live shows one of these days…
Shoegazer Sunday: Chapterhouse’s “Pearl”
Sunday, March 3rd, 2013Somehow 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.
Shoegazer 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.