I think most new shoegaze is quite boring (except for a few bands such as Experimental Aircraft), but you can't go wrong with old school shoegazing..
Woah man, that's my favorite Slowdive tune. Mad underrated.
Like.. "classic shoegaze" wise, I only like My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive. Most shoegaze is really shitty gimmick rock where songwriting is replaced by decent drones. But, there's like a lot of shoegaze influenced shit out there that kicks major ass. Like Bark Psychosis
Seeing MBV live was as close to a religious experience as I'll ever get.
talking about underrated slowdive...
Re: Shoegaze
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 3:27 am
by Soiree
BIG UPS PON DE BUMPS!
Some real gold up in this thread!!!
Re: Shoegaze
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:10 pm
by LACE
one of cocteau's BEST
currently blasting
then to slow it down
Re: Shoegaze
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:45 pm
by vincent 2 fly
Re: Shoegaze
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 7:53 am
by exfox
vincent 2 fly wrote:
was listening to that album yesterday. their best imo..
Re: Shoegaze
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 1:56 pm
by chekov
exfox wrote:
vincent 2 fly wrote:
was listening to that album yesterday. their best imo..
not a huge fan of Pygmalion but this song...
Re: Shoegaze
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:37 am
by Atticus
MBV are still touring. i'm seeing them at melbourne's ATP in february, i've heard that they play unbearably loud but this thread has gotten me excited again
it's too bad this genre is filled with a fuckload of poor filler. there's only a handfull of good genuine shoegaze bands, but they're all amazingly good.
Re: Shoegaze
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:06 pm
by Genevieve
Pygmalion demos > Pygmalion
I kinda feel like they left behind 'shoegaze' after Souvlaki tbh.
Re: Shoegaze
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 8:13 am
by exfox
Genevieve wrote:I kinda feel like they left behind 'shoegaze' after Souvlaki tbh.
i actually feel like that pygmalion gives an indication on where shoegazing would have gone had original bands keep on going though. both mbv and slowdive seemed to embrace electronic sounds in their latest tracks/records (see soon and the andrew weatherall remix for mbv). it would've been interesting to hear what could have come out of such an evolution i think... this track for instance is sheer beauty
unrelated, but another great shoegaze band that hasn't been mentioned yet (i think)
+ one of the only good recent shoegaze bands:
Re: Shoegaze
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:47 pm
by Jurrecane
Recent band i like :
There is also a documentary about creation records (My Bloody Valentine, Jesus And The Mary Chain, Ride, Primal Scream etc.) called Upside Down, haven't watched the full thing yet but seems nice!
Re: Shoegaze
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 2:02 pm
by Genevieve
exfox wrote:i actually feel like that pygmalion gives an indication on where shoegazing would have gone had original bands keep on going though.
Dunno, it felt more like a post-rock record. Shoegaze will always be guitar pop to me. And the whole atmospheric shoegaze + post-rock and electronic stuff was done a lot by like.. Bark Psychosis and Seefeel.
Re: Shoegaze
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 2:40 pm
by bright maroon
I always wanted to blow up these two album covers and put side by side on a wall...
i was in a shoegaze/'slowcore' band last year, we never really got round to doing any proper recordings but we recorded our last gig from the mixing desk just so we had something. the sound's not great but i still quite like listening to it every now and then.
let us know what you think - http://sombreyork.bandcamp.com/