SVIIB is School of Seven Bells’ last album, compiled from the tracks laid down by Benjamin Curtis before he died and completed by vocalist Alejandra Deheza. Here’s opening track “Ablaze,” which is pretty groovetastic.
Posts Tagged ‘Shoegazer’
Shoegazer Sunday: School of Seven Bells’ “Ablaze”
Sunday, March 3rd, 2024Shoegazer Sunday: Slowdive’s “Catch The Breeze” Live in Copenhagen
Sunday, January 28th, 2024Been a while since I put up a Shoegazer Sunday post, so here’s a live version of “Catch the Breeze” from Slowdive’s 1/21/24 shoe in Copenhagen.
Vocals aren’t great, but the rest of the sound is pretty good.
Christmas Shoegazer: Stellarscope’s “Silent Night”
Monday, December 25th, 2023As is the now annual tradition, enjoy Stellarscope’s version of “Silent Night”:
Merry Christmas!
Shoegazer Sunday: Great Northern’s “Radio”
Sunday, October 22nd, 2023My relationship to Great Northern is weird. I liked what I heard off Remind Me Where The Light Is enough to buy it, listened to it a lot for a while, and then just…stopped. I can’t even explain why I stopped. It’s a mystery, like the waning of a pestilence. That album is superbly crafted Shoegaze-tinged pop that sounds bit like Tamaryn.
“Radio,” an earlier effort off Sleepy Eepee, is a different sort of beast, like Mazzy Starr crossed with some buzzy low-fi band. Singer Rachel Stolte has a compelling voice.
Despite not listening to them for years, YouTube occasionally offers them up in my feed. A good thing, too.
They evidently toured with Smashing Pumpkins this year, and are supposedly working on a new album.
Shoegazer Sunday: S.C.U.M.’s “Whitechapel”
Sunday, October 8th, 2023I found this S.C.U.M. video in a list of Shoegaze videos, and I see them described as “Post-punk,” but what they sound like to me is 1980s-era Simple Minds. Here’s “Whitechapel.”
By the way, Simple Minds are still around and have a tour coming next year, but S.C.U.M. broke up in 2013.
Shoegazer Sunday: Collapse’s “Path”
Sunday, September 17th, 2023Collapse is another obscure Japanese Shoegaze band. Or maybe not so obscure, since they already have ten albums and EPs out. Their earlier songs seem more My Bloody Valentine-influenced, but their later stuff seems a bit more Dreampop with a noisebed base, maybe Tokyo Shoegazer by way of The Cherry Wave and Civic with a soupcon of Asobi Seksu thrown in. Here’s “Path.”
Shoegazer Sunday: Slowdive’s “The Slab” (and first impressions of Everything is Alive)
Sunday, September 10th, 2023Here’s “The Slab,” the final track from Slowdive’s new Everything is Alive album. But I should warn you that this is a case where the song of the CD is much stronger than the compressed version on YouTube:
I finally got the CD in this week, and I think it’s a very strong album, more consistent than their previous self-titled album, but only time will tell is something as strong as “Slomo” or “No Longer Making Time” emerges as particular favorites. (And the later only really twigged for me when it became such a burner live.)
Shoegazer Sunday: Slowdive’s “Skin in the Game”
Sunday, August 20th, 2023Here’s another song off Slowdive’s forthcoming Everything is Alive album, due out September 1st.
Shoegazer Sunday: Slowdive’s “Kisses”
Sunday, June 25th, 2023Everything is Alive, Slowdive’s long-rumored next album, is finally coming out September 1, and “Kisses,” the first single from it, just dropped.
I still love the way Neil Halstead constructs songs.
Shoegazer Sunday: hyperlilly’s “springs (the oracle)”
Sunday, June 11th, 2023Hyperlilly evidently hale from Cologne, Germany. Not a fan of the video (static band shots + mild psych color filters), but the song reminds me of Auburn Lull crossed with a bit of M83.