Roy Montgomery is Christchurch, New Zealand guitarist, and “Slow Heroes” is a beautiful, steady-state sort of instrumental shoegaze with a repeated musical motif.
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Shoegazer Sunday: Roy Montgomery’s “Slow Heroes”
Sunday, September 29th, 2024Shoegazer Sunday: SPC ECO’s “Ray of Sun”
Sunday, August 25th, 2024Been a while since I featured SPC ECO here, so enjoy “Ray of Sun” off The Art of Pop. With the lack of guitar this may be more possibly classified as dreampop.
Shoegazer Sunday: Slowdive’s “The Slab” Live
Sunday, May 12th, 2024In honor of tonight’s Slowdive concert in Austin, here’s a live version of “The Slab” from earlier in their tour:
Shoegazer Sunday: Slowdive’s “Richard”
Sunday, April 14th, 2024Yet another in a seemingly endless string of unreleased Slowdive tracks. This one has a twangy, downbeat feel reminiscent of Mazzy Star.
Shoegazer Sunday: Hollie Blue Covers “Fade Into You”
Sunday, March 17th, 2024Here’s UK performer Hollie Blue covering Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You.”
Not bad, and she’s easy on the eyes…
Shoegazer Sunday: School of Seven Bells’ “Ablaze”
Sunday, March 3rd, 2024SVIIB 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.
Mojo Nixon, RIP
Thursday, February 8th, 2024Psychobilly musician Mojo Nixon died yesterday at 66. “A cardiac event on the Outlaw Country Cruise is about right… & that’s just how he did it, Mojo has left the building.”
I saw him live a couple of times at SXSW, once with Jello Biafra in support of Prairie Home Invasion. “Mojo, why do you play SXSW? Ain’t no major label ever gonna sign you!”
Here’s a few tracks for the memories.
Shoegazer 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.