Like Supercar, Plastic Girl in Closet is another Japanese band treading the boundary between Shoegaze and J-Pop. Also like Supercar, their dress sense seems to come from The Beatles circa 1964.
Posts Tagged ‘Shoegazer’
Shoegazer Sunday: Plastic Girl In Closet’s “Love is Fun”
Sunday, February 12th, 2012Shoegazer Sunday: Dead Mellotron’s “I Hate The Way Things Are”
Sunday, February 5th, 2012I thought last week’s dose worked out so well that we should go back for a second helping.
Shoegazer Sunday: Dead Mellotron’s “I Woke Up”
Sunday, January 29th, 2012Love the band name.
Shoegazer Sunday: Mash’s “Bury”
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012Here’s another obscure Japanese shoegazer band, Mash, with their song “Bury.”
I like the way it builds, though the outro crescendo could have been a bit shorter…
Shoegazer Sunday: Ringo Deathstarr’s “You Don’t Listen”
Sunday, January 15th, 2012Here’s the earcatchingly-named Ringo Deathstarr (note the double r at the end of Deathstar; there’s evidently a New Jersey rapper that goes by the single r version of the name) with “You Don’t Listen.” The band hails from Austin, which has not been a hotbed for Shoegaze (though The Swells have been here a while). My friend Andrew said he enjoyed seeing them at Psych Fest.
And here’ the live version, not because it’s particularly good, but because it provides proof of the maxim that just about any Shoegazer band is improved by including a hot redhead.
Shoegazer Sunday: The Jesus And Mary Chain’s “Just Like Honey”
Sunday, January 8th, 2012The first (and for a long time only) Jesus And Mary Chain song I’d heard was “Snakedriver” off The Crow soundtrack. It struck me as a sort of post-Beatles bit of psychedelic pop, and only later did I learn that they were considered a Shoegazer band. Here’s their song “Just Like Honey,” which has more echo and less distortion.
Shoegazer Sunday: Pale Saints’ “Sight of You”
Sunday, January 1st, 2012Pale Saints of Leeds were among the original UK Shoegaze wave of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
This is off their debut album The Comforts Of Madness. I could do without the noodly part at the very end…
Shoegazer Sunday: Laboratory Noise’s “Things That Fall From The Sky”
Sunday, December 25th, 2011Since the band themselves were kind enough to comment when I posted their previous song, I’m happy to give them more exposure for “Things That Fall From The Sky” (another one off their debut album When Sound Generates Light), especially since it’s rather good.
And there are few Shoegazer songs that don’t benefit from a pretty, whispy-voiced female lead singer, which Kerry Ramsay (if I have the name right) provides here. She sounds a bit like Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell (always a good thing), with maybe a touch of Alison Shaw from Cranes.
Shoegazer Sunday: Laboratory Noise’s “Here, She Is Evergreen”
Sunday, December 18th, 2011Today’s dollop of Shoegaze goodness comes from Laboratory Noise. Love the band name. The YouTube description says they hail from Manchester, the birthplace of classic Shoegaze, but their bio says they hail from nearby Bradford instead.
Their debut album, When Sound Generates Light, is available through Amazon.
Tokyo Shoegazer’s “Bright” Take 2 (The Complete Song)
Monday, December 12th, 2011Little did I know that almost immediately after I put up the short version that Tokyo Shoegazer would put up the complete 8 minute, 29 second version.
Well, because I run a full-service blog (full service, I tell you!), here it is: