Here’s some A/B comparison testing. Here’s Planet Cell covering Slowdive’s cover of Syd Barrett’s “Golden Hair”:
It’s pretty good…up until the end, when it becomes a sort of strident mess.
By contrast, this live version of Slowdive doing the piece themselves at the Best Kept Secret festival (which I’ve posted here before) just takes it to an entirely new level at the end, all the parts of the band meshing together for a soaring climax.
Echodrone has a new album, Resurgence out. I bounced off the first tracks I heard off it, but this one I like:
Hundredth was a hardcore band that turned to shoegaze with their album Rare. Here’s a track off it:
Whirr has been around a while and done some albums on Graveface records. Here’s “Lean” off their split EP with Nothing.
Been quite a while since I posted any Auburn Lull, so here’s a pretty, ambient piece called “CA1” off their Hiber EP:
Bugjar hails from Boston, Massachusetts.
“On the Road” sort sounds like Slowdive crossed with a touch of Mazzy Star, which sounds like a winning combination.
Here’s another dose of The Telewire, with “Slower” off their Airport EP.
Enjoy yet another cover of Slowdive’s Catch The Breeze, this one from Canadian shoegazer outfit The City Gates with guest Krissy Vanderwoude:
This is off an all-digital compilation homage of Slowdive covers called Just For A Life, which I’ll have to listen to more of…
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Been a long time since I featured something from The Telewire, but “Head on Straioght” is part of my regular Shoegaze rotation.