Shoegaze

There is an amazing looking Shoegaze documentary coming out very soon called 'Beautiful Noise'...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3K8Nru6fnc

ooh very careful.

 

 

i am interested in this.

yay!

  On 12/15/2012 at 2:09 AM, Goiter Sanchez said:

There is an amazing looking Shoegaze documentary coming out very soon called 'Beautiful Noise'...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3K8Nru6fnc

 

did this ever happen?

  On 8/16/2013 at 12:53 AM, verticalhold said:

 

  On 12/15/2012 at 2:09 AM, Goiter Sanchez said:

There is an amazing looking Shoegaze documentary coming out very soon called 'Beautiful Noise'...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3K8Nru6fnc

 

did this ever happen?

 

Well the kickstarter funding was successful... so, yes?

A good overview on the genre's history - there's an accompanying spotify list that I found to be a good intro to shoegaze

 

http://vimeo.com/56603963

 

http://vimeo.com/56683568

  On 12/15/2012 at 5:17 AM, Salvatorin said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-3S3uwUU_Y

 

+1 on LSD. They're coming out with a full-length later this year too; I'm excited. http://www.mindexpansionrecords.com/#!__lsd

Also +1 on Glifted - Under And In; sooooo good. And of course the new MBV.

 

A few recs:

 

Rumskib - s/t

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBxS6XXHkwY

 

Oeil - Urban Twilight EP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEOX17Oueug

 

Mellonta Tauta - Sun Fell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU30_KmXczc

Edited August 17, 2013 by malaria

On the shoegaze/wave side of things:

 

Merchandise:

 

 

The pine (basicly an Evergreen rip off band kinda) - always got lumped in the emo/hc scene, but i dig this a lot (once i learned to like the vocals) and def. has some shoegaze influence

 

 

 

I'm not sure what defines dream pop, but maybe these fall in that category:

 

Wild Nothing

http://youtu.be/IzxATVcs31I

 

Real Estate

 

 

As far as laid back psychedelic rock goes:

 

Golden Void

 

And of course Tame Impala:

Re-posting these since the vimeo vids were since taken down. Great overviews on the genre imo. Also, I've finally getting into Slowdive...I can't believe I hadn't given them an earnest listen until now. I can't stop listening to "When The Sun Hits"

 

http://youtu.be/IJvIi_GZo1c

 

http://youtu.be/Clt-eFmnGLQ

Cocteau Twins, Lush, Spiritualized, The Verve, Spacemen 3, Spectrum, & Ride all made albums equal to MBV & I actually put Slowdive down a notch from these bands.

 

& doesn't anyone ever listen to FSA anymore while watching the sun come up over the city?

 

Ride's early catalog gets a lot of attention but I actually think they got better towards the later part of their discography. If I had to pick a favorite album I'd say the byrdsy Carnival of Light album all the way. But the Today Forever EP is my favorite.

 

Edited October 24, 2013 by igloos unlmtd

Some Slowdive fans may fancy this Pale Saints track from In Ribbons. A vinyl that still gets some 33RPM rotation on my deck.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FDv0GHW01c

Surprised (unless I missed it) nobody's mentioned Washed Out... great stuff.

  On 10/24/2013 at 8:14 PM, Joyrex said:

Surprised (unless I missed it) nobody's mentioned Washed Out... great stuff.

 

I'm a huge Washed Out fan (seeing him in Houston soon actually) but I'd consider him more dream pop. His newest album had a very strong exotica vibe to it.

 

Elite Gymnastics, who like Washed Out were associated with "chillwave" had some similar dream pop/shoegaze sounding aesthetic coupled with rave and downtempo electronic music.

 

 

I know I'm not the only one that sometimes feels Lush is right up there or even better than MBV. Being a massive mid era Cocteau Twins fan, I really love their Robin Guthrie produced tunes. Spooky is a great album along with their Robin produced singles. But really their entire catalog is pretty solid up until their last album which was a huge let down.

 

Edited October 24, 2013 by igloos unlmtd

For me, shoegaze is mainly a phenomenon of the 90's... maybe up to the early 00's. The inspiration certainly carried through for some time. I think all my friends back then had a band or 4-track cassette shoegaze project. Flying Saucer Attack certainly inspired a lot bedroom artists.

 

One cassette that I held onto was Astrobrite's Artificial Flavors / Naturally Sweetened. That tape played on repeat in so many of my vehicles. The more the tape degraded the better it sounded.

 

 

lately, I've been searching for a copy of the mysterious The Summer Hits - Beaches & Canyons album.. a band related to Further, Beachwood Sparks & The Tyde.

 

I think I posted this before, but worth a bump:

http://spceco.bandcamp.com/

 

Dean Garcia's (Curve) band with his daughter on Vocals. The new LP is great.

Digital Album Buy Now £7 GBP or more

moose were the band i saw that seemed to own the most effects peddles - literally mounted on boards that stretched from one side of a 20+ foot wide stage, without gaps. their album never worked for me, but the e.ps were superb.

 

Yeah, I remember hearing the Sonny & Sam album a bunch which is essentially their acclaimed EPs repackaged as an album here in the US. They have a great sound - kind of more upfront american sounding vocals with some great harmonies. I'm having fun going through their catalog again on youtube.

 

MBV

Slowdive

Curve

Cocteau Twins

 

duh

 

I always thought this tune sounded kind of shoegazey

where the fuck is that Beautiful Noise documentary?

 

it's been on the cards for about 20 years now...