Been a long time since I featured something from The Telewire, but “Head on Straioght” is part of my regular Shoegaze rotation.
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Shoegazer Sunday: The Telewire’s “Head on Straight”
Sunday, July 12th, 2020Shoegazer Sunday: Deserta’s “Hide”
Sunday, May 3rd, 2020This is from Deserta ‘s new album Black Aura My Sun, which is already making a lot of people’s “Best Shoegaze albums of 2020” list. They remind a little bit of Highspire.
Shoegazer Sunday: Static Daydream’s “Drift Away”
Sunday, April 19th, 2020Here’s a pleasant one off the Saint Marie Records Static Daydream sampler.
Shoegazer Sunday: Ringo Deathstarr’s “Cotton Candy Clouds”
Sunday, March 29th, 2020Ringo Deathstarr is a Shoegaze band that on paper I should like more than I do. An Austin band with redheaded female bassist? I should be all over that. But for some reason they’ve never really clicked with me.
But they just dropped a new, self-titled album, and this track sounds like a homage to not only Pink Floyd’s “Brain Damage,” but also The Beatles at their most psychedelic.
Shoegazer Sunday: SPC ECO’s “The Heart and Soul”
Sunday, March 15th, 2020I picked up SPC ECO’s Fifteen album, and if you like sort of steady-state, trancy shoegaze with beautiful female vocals sort of floating on top, I recommend it. Here’s “The Heart and Soul”:
Shoegazer Sunday: Sara Rachele Covers “Fade Into You”
Sunday, March 1st, 2020I’d never heard Sara Rachele before I went looking for covers of “Fade Into You.” She’s good enough to provide a close approximation of Hope Sandoval’s voice. The arrangement is more sparse and lonely than the Mazzy Star original, accentuating the sad, twangy, “coming home from a honky tonk alone at 3 AM” vibe of the song.
Mazzy Star’s David Roback, RIP
Wednesday, February 26th, 2020David Roback, half of duo Mazzy Star, has died at age 61. He co-wrote their one hit, the haunting “Fade Into You”:
Mazzy Star got called Shoegaze because there wasn’t anything else to call them, but their twangy guitar sound, and Hope Sandoval’s breathy, honey-and-bourbon vocals, were like nothing else on the scene.
Shoegazer Sunday: SPC ECO’s “All We Have Is Now”
Sunday, February 2nd, 2020Like last week’s selection, “All We Have Is Now” is off Static Waves 5. It’s a beautiful, echoey piece of steady state Shoegaze:
Between this and The Capsules, the Static Wave compilations aren’t so much introducing me to new bands as presenting new work from bands I already liked but hadn’t tracked closely enough.
Shoegazer Sunday: The Capsules’ “Play”
Sunday, January 26th, 2020I just picked up Static Waves 5 from Saint Marie Records, and this is one of the best songs off it:
There’s simply something very pleasing about Julie Shields harmonizing with herself…
Christmas Shoegazer: Stellarscope’s “Silent Night”
Wednesday, December 25th, 2019As is the now annual tradition, enjoy Stellarscope’s version of “Silent Night”:
Merry Christmas!