The 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.
Posts Tagged ‘Shoegazer’
Shoegazer Sunday: The End Of The Ocean’s “Worth Everything Ever Wished For”
Sunday, October 14th, 2012Shoegazer 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…
Shoegazer Sunday: Thrushes’ “Heartbeats”
Sunday, September 9th, 2012Thrush is a relatively new band out of Baltimore. They sound a bit like Jesus and Mary Chain by way of Ride and Slowdive, with maybe a bit of Mazzy Star.
Shoegazer Sunday: Lemon Chair’s “Halcyon”
Sunday, September 2nd, 2012I’m really digging Japan’s Lemon Chair. Plus it’s after 1 AM Sunday morning and I’m feeling lazy.
Previous Lemon’s Chair offerings here.
Shoegazer Sunday: Abiku’s “Bocciòlo”
Sunday, August 26th, 2012I thought that last week’s Italian shoegazer entry worked well enough that we should go back to the boot for this week’s entry, Abiku’s “Bocciòlo”L
See how easy it is to do a music video? All you need is a hot girl jogging and swimming!
Shoegazer Sunday: Starframes’ “Cielo Drive”
Sunday, August 19th, 2012Starframes’ “Cielo Drive” seems like a beautiful, upbeat song if you don’t recognize the context of the address (which the video gets to a bit over two minutes in).
This is off their album Ethereal Underground. The band itself is out of Naples, Italy, but their main domain seems to have expired.
I’m getting a bit of a Neutral Milk Hotel vibe from them, which is a good thing.
Shoegazer Sunday: Tokyo Shoegazer’s “Back to My Place”
Sunday, August 12th, 2012A while back I put up Tokyo Shoegazer’s “Bright.” Here’s “Back to My Place,” another long song, that starts off all ethereal but just after 2:30 in turns back into a soaring, reverb-drenched wall of shoegazer guitar goodness.
Off their debut album 「crystallize」, which is available through iTunes.