Tamaryn (New York/LA/San Francisco by way of New Zealand) gets compared to Mazzy Star a lot, and you can hear that, but The Jesus and Mary Chain is another good point of comparison. Here’s “Love Fade”.
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Shoegazer Sunday: Tamaryn’s “Love Fade”
Sunday, December 29th, 2013Simon & Garfunkle’s The Boxer
Thursday, December 26th, 2013For Boxing Day, here’s Simon & Garfunkle’s classic “The Boxer”:
What do you mean I’m doing it wrong?
Merry Christmas!
Wednesday, December 25th, 2013To celebrate Christmas, here’s The Dropkick Murphys with “The Season’s Upon Us.”
Shoegaze Sunday: Swell Cover of Slowdive’s “Machine Gun”
Sunday, December 22nd, 2013Here’s an ethereal electronica cover of Slowdive’s “Machine Gun” by (if I’m decrypting the credits correctly) “Dick Isreal and The Soothsayer with Neon Signal.” So a teamup of three musical entities I’ve never heard of.
I think Amy Archibald is The Soothsayer, and has a beautiful (albeit highly processed) voice on this song. I’m guessing the “Lightwave” of the video title is the theoretical genre this belongs to. Whatever it is it’s very pretty…
Shoegazer Sunday: Bailter Space’s “Robot World”
Sunday, December 15th, 2013Here’s New Zealand’s Baltier Space with the title track from their Robot World shoegaze album, which checks in on the crunchier side of classic shoegaze:
Shoegazer Sunday: Eluvium’s “Don’t Get Any Closer”
Sunday, December 8th, 2013I was in the mood for mellow, and Eluvium‘s “Don’t Get Any Closer” (which has a definite ambient film score tinge to it) fits the mellow bill.
Shoegazer Sunday: Golden Garden’s “Ghostwood”
Sunday, November 24th, 2013I was in the mood for something mellow, and Golden Garden‘s “Ghostwood” admirably fits the bill, even if the video comes in almost entirely on the cheap side of the “cheap but arty” continuum.
Lead singer Aubrey Rachel Violet Bramble (if in fact that’s a single person’s real name and not a real name + fake name combo) has the most obvious “little girl” voice this side of Alison Shaw of Cranes.
Shoegazer Sunday: Slowness’ “Walls of Blue”
Sunday, November 17th, 2013For your Sunday dose of Shoegaze, here’s San Francisco’s Slowness (who describe themselves as a “drone pop band”) with “Walls of Blue,” a steady-state song that sounds like an extended riff off the end of Pink Floyd’s “Time.”
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Thursday, November 14th, 2013Since I’ve reached the age where being “cool” is impossible anyway, I can link things others might find corny, like this version of The Tokens revisiting their big hit “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”:
This, of course, was an adaptation of Solomon Linda’s “Mbube”:
But the Tokens version is better and more interesting, despite the fact that they could be mistaken for 4 Jacks and a Jill. It’s obvious lead singer Jay Siegel still loves singing this song even after four decades.
But my favorite version, which sort of combines the sensibilities of the two, is Ladysmith Black Mombazo and all-girl acapella group The Mint Julips covering it, from a PBS special called Spike and Company Do It Acapella from back in 1990.
Shoegazer Sunday: DIIV’s “Wait”
Sunday, November 10th, 2013For your Sunday doze of shoegaze, here’s New York’s DIIV with the NSFW-ish “Wait.”