I’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.
Posts Tagged ‘Shoegazer’
Shoegazer Sunday: Sara Rachele Covers “Fade Into You”
Sunday, March 1st, 2020Mazzy 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!
Shoegazer Sunday: Blue Oyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear the Reaper” Slowed Down 800%
Sunday, November 24th, 2019Blue Oyster Cult isn’t Shoegaze by most definitions, but the person who slowed it down 800% also filled it with “huge reverse and forward reverbs fill in the huge gaps that would remain without.” Which makes it very sound very shoegaze/ambient/darkwave/space rock, the sort of music you would play upon discovery of a long lost alien city deep beneath the earth.
Shoegazer Sunday: Slowdive Sleep Mix
Sunday, October 27th, 2019Someone took a lot of obscure/unreleased Slowdive songs, put them together and made them even more echoey/dreamy.
Shoegazer Sunday: Speaker Gain Teardrop’s Galveston
Sunday, July 21st, 2019It’s been seven years since I last posted a Speaker Gain Teardrop song (damn, I’ve been doing these for that long?), so here’s the lushly beautiful “Galveston”:
What a band from Hiroshima is doing naming a song after a Texas port I couldn’t tell you…
Shoegazer Sunday: A Beautiful Machine’s “Breathe in Space”
Sunday, July 14th, 2019Back when MP3.com was a going concern, I bought A Beautiful Machine’s Solar Winds, White Noise, Antigravity based on the strength of “Breathe in Space.” In fact, it’s the third most played track on my iTunes. It lasts from 37:06 to 42:50 here.
A Beautiful Machine is evidently a part-time project of Skye Klein, better known for Terminal Sound System and HALO.
Shoegazer Sunday: The Radio Dept.’s “The New Improved Hypocrisy”
Sunday, July 7th, 2019A little more dreampop that Shoegaze, “The New Improved Hypocrisy” is a nicely pleasant piece: