Here’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.
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Shoegazer Sunday: The Emerald Down’s “Sometime the Sun Shines”
Sunday, November 18th, 2012Shoegazer 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.
Shoegazer Sunday: SummerMay’s “Radiance”
Sunday, October 21st, 2012Get’s a little mopey in the middle, but otherwise a nice solid, slow-tempo Shoegazer song.
SummerMay hails from Zurich, which, judging from the video, seems to be colored entirely in pastels.
Shoegazer Sunday: The End Of The Ocean’s “Worth Everything Ever Wished For”
Sunday, October 14th, 2012The End of the Ocean labels themselves post-rock, and some of their work is a bit noodly for my taste, but this one hits a nice melodic shoegaze sweet spot.
Shoegazer Sunday: Malory’s “Falling Shine”
Sunday, October 7th, 2012I picked up Malory’s album Outerbeats and I’m enjoying it quite a bit. It’s about halfway between ambient and shoegaze, with a tiny bit of lounge jazz thrown in every now and then. Great end-of-the-day music.
Here’s “Falling Shine.”
Shoegazer Sunday: Thrushes’ “Crystal”
Sunday, September 30th, 2012And the Thrushes kick continues with “Crystal”!
Shoegazer Sunday: Thrushes Cover “Fade Into You”
Sunday, September 23rd, 2012You may already know of my affection for Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You,” and a couple of week’s ago I put up a Thrushes song, so naturally a Thrushes cover of “Fade Into You” peaked my interest.
The nice thing about this version is that it foregrounds the similarities with Bob Dylan’s “Knocking on Heaven’s Door,” and if anything is more wistfully melancholy than the original. The only flaw is that lead singer Anna Conner, while good, just isn’t Hope Sandoval. But who is?
Shoegazer Sunday: Malory’s “Floating”
Sunday, September 16th, 2012Malory is a second-wave Shoegazer band from Germany. Though they get compared to Slowdive a lot, “Floating” strikes me as about halfway between Echodrone and Midsummer. I could do without the French spoken word bit at the beginning, but the part that kicks in after 1:50 is pretty tasty.
This breaks up what is likely to be a big Thrushes kick…