“Earthmover” is a song from have a Nice Life’s debut album Deathconsciousness, reported be be among the top feel-bad albums of all time. But this song, about giant stone golems who destroy the earth and then, faced with existence without purpose, long to die, is simply too silly a premise to get depressed over. Instead, I’m posting it here for the surging noisecore wave of sound that kicks off after 5:30 into the song.
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Shoegazer Sunday: Have A Nice Life’s “Earthmover”
Sunday, August 2nd, 2026Shoegazer Sunday: Weirdfish Covers Radiohead’s “How to Disappear Completely”
Sunday, July 26th, 2026And the Radiohead Shoegaze cover theme continues!
“How to Disappear Completely” is another song off Kid A. Given that it constantly polls among the ten most depressing songs of all time, I don’t reach for it often (iTunes tells me six plays since 2004).
Weirdfish did a Shoegaze cover of it in a day that’s more drowning in a wall of sound rather than lying in a well of echoing loneliness like the original. It’s still sad, but has an added dimension of grandeur.
Weirdfish (who I think is one guy) has a newer version he spent more time on, but I prefer his first try here for it’s glorious wall of sound aesthetic.
Shoegazer Sunday: Dead Rituals Cover Radiohead’s “All I Need”
Sunday, July 19th, 2026Back in the late 1990s, I listened to Radiohead a fair amount. I really enjoyed “Street Spirit (Fade Out)” when I heard it on a compilation CD I picked up cheap, and I actually picked up OK Computer new when it came out (which was fairly uncommon, as I mostly bought CDs used), and enjoyed it quite a bit (I prefer “Subterranean Homesick Alien” over “Paranoid Android”). I wouldn’t have guessed that it would end up on so many critics lists of best album of the decade.
And then came that creative turn starting with Kid A, and they quickly became a band I didn’t feel a need to pick up every new release for. At least Kid A had “Optimistic,” which is a really strong track. Amnesiac had…well, I couldn’t tell you. I bought it, listened to it, and none of the tracks rang a bell when I looked at the CD just now.
So Radiohead now has (counts) four studio albums since Amnesiac, including In Rainbows, their last album to sell more than 1 million copies. (I know, streaming era, etc.) One song off that album is “All I Need.”
On an online forum I frequent, someone mentioned they were “Playing guitar to shoegaze versions of Radiohead songs,” and that sent me scrambling around YouTube, where I found Dead Rituals’ cover of that song.
I like the Dead Rituals version better…
Shoegazer Sunday: Cigarettes After Sex’s “Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby”
Sunday, June 21st, 2026With 59 million views on YouTube, I may be late to the party for this one. The obvious point of comparison is Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You.”
The band hails from El Paso.
Shoegazer Sunday: Rainsong’s “When You Were Leaving”
Sunday, March 15th, 2026Rainsong seem to be a pretty new Shoegaze band; their Facebook page only goes back to 2023, and “When You Were Leaving” seems to have only been posted to YouTube last week. It’s very pretty.
Shoegazer Sunday: Matt Darey/Urban Astronauts/Kate Louise Smith’s “See The Sun”
Sunday, February 15th, 2026This is a strange one, in that this original version of “See The Sun” from 2009 has under 10,000 hits, but some of the remixes has hit ranging up into the millions. And while it might qualify more as Synthpop than Shoegaze, it has that “floating” sensation that some of the best Shoegaze invokes. And Kate Louise Smith has a voice very reminiscent of Sarah McLachlan.
For contrast, here’s the longer, dance-oriented Aurosonic Remix, which I don’t like as much as the original.
Shoegazer Sunday: SPC ECO’s “For All Time”
Sunday, January 11th, 2026Been a while since we did served up a slice of SPC ECO, so enjoy “For All Time”:
Shoegazer Sunday: Echodrone’s “Falling From Planes”
Sunday, January 4th, 2026For today’s doze of Shoegazer Sunday, here’s “Falling From Planes,” another track from Echodrone’s Five.
(Previously.)
Merry Christmas: Stellarscope’s “Silent Night”
Thursday, December 25th, 2025As is the now annual tradition, enjoy Stellarscope’s version of “Silent Night”:
Merry Christmas!
Shoegazer Sunday: Night Tapes’ “Helix”
Sunday, December 14th, 2025Night Tapes are a UK-Estonian band, and “Helix” sounds a bit like Mallory to me.