Posts Tagged ‘Shoegaze’

DEAF CULT – ” Safety Matches “

Posted: June 11, 2015 in MUSIC
Tags: , ,
0

http://

“Safety Matches” by Deafcult (2015, from the Deafcult EP).

Deafcult is a shoegaze/noise pop sextet from Brisbane. They formed in January of this year, and their members have come from other Brisbane bands. Most notably, vocalist Innez Tulloch comes from the glorious shoegaze outfit Roku Music, who released a  excellent Australian album of 2014,

Not long after their formation, Deafcult released their self-titled debut EP on May 18th. They’ve turned a lot of heads and a lot of people are ecstatic that another shoegazing band has come out of Brisbane to interrupt the long parade of Australian shoegaze torchbearers from Melbourne. I don’t know anything else about this band. I learned about them recently today because of an email newsletter I’m subscribed which focuses on Australian indie music. If you’re not already subscribed to Happy  check the blog out its great stuff. They’ve an invaluable resource and a conduit to loads of good Aussie and Kiwi music.  Every song on Deafcult is amazing,  It’s got all the fuzz and the dreaminess and the coed vocals. It’s clear that there’s some heavy influence from Slowdive.

There’s a slower, softer instrumental bit that runs from 1:15 to 1:58, and I really like it. It’s gentle, and lovely, and wrapped in bubble wrap, and floating in space. Then everything comes back in and the fuzz and delay get heavier, and you don’t even realize how much noise they’re making.

Above all, though, it’s the coed vocal harmonies. It’s quite a bit like Halstead and Goswell. For me, those harmonies are the star of the show. The glorious noise is an added bonus. Hopefully this newly formed band has a lot more like this in the future. For now, you can get a digital download of Deafcult at Bandcamp by naming your price

FEVER DREAM – ” Nightcrawling “

Posted: May 27, 2015 in MUSIC
Tags: , , ,
0

Fever Dream and a track from the album “Moyamoya”, released 27th April 2015 on Club AC30 Records
Video by Nik Vestberg , This Exciting London gaze/noise/pop three piece Fever Dream were the subject of much adoration from us for their superb single ‘Serotonin Hit’. So as you can imagine, we are thrilled then to get the opportunity to premiere their new video for the track ‘Nightcrawling’, Its lifted from their new album Moyamoya which is out now on Club AC30.
Footage courtesy of Prelinger Archives, the Internet Archive and The Wellcome Library, London

ECHODRONE – ” Glacial Place “

Posted: May 10, 2015 in MUSIC
Tags: , , ,
0

Celebrating their tenth year in existence, San Francisco’s Echodrone wrap up 2015’s first instalment of Some Velvet Mixtape courtesy of awesome recent single ‘Glacial Place’. Taken from their long awaited and some would say well-overdue debut “Five”, released earlier this year on Saint Marie Records. Both band and song pretty much do what it says on the tin, creating six and a half minutes of ethereal bliss in the process.

v600_EchodroneFIVE1500x

 

 

 

FLYYING COLOURS – ” Running Late “

Posted: May 7, 2015 in MUSIC
Tags: , , ,
0

Melbourne shoe-gaze/ psych rockers Flyying Colours have just set off on a UK and European tour this May to tour in support of the forthcoming EP ROYGBIV. available on AC30 Records of which they will have on tour with them for sale

While there the band will be performing as part of Great Escape and Primavera Sound Festivals, and supporting their Russian label mates Pinkshinyultrablast, as well as doing their own headline launch shows across Europe. Before they left, the band released the impressive shoegaze dream of a track called ‘Running Time’ and now with the help of directed By Thomas Russell they’ve produced the stunning video accompaniment.

The NEW CANDYS – ” Surf 2 “

Posted: May 5, 2015 in MUSIC
Tags: , , , ,
0

Italian four-piece New Candys have shared stages with the likes of Dead Skeletons, Crystal Stilts and The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion while two of their members also play as part of Lorelle And The Obsolete’s live set up. Having released their first album “Stars Reach The Abyss” back in 2012, they finally got round to putting out the follow-up “New Candys As Medicine” in March of this year. Produced by former Loop drummer John Wills, it’s a psychedelic power trip of an album that demands your attention from its opening bars. They also put out a limited edition 10 inch split single with Kill Your Boyfriend, and here’s ‘Surf 2’, taken from that release.

FLYYING COLOURS – ” Flyying Colours ” EP

Posted: April 30, 2015 in MUSIC
Tags: , , , , , , ,
0

http://

The wonderful sound of guitars from Australian band FLYYING COLOURS and their first EP,  please check them out on bandcamp and http://www.flyyingcolours.com, the band’s guitarist Brodie J Brümmer has said before they slay the UK.

Their music  inspired by so much, everything really. It’s pretty obviously 90s shoegaze, psych and grunge stuff, pop music…we listen to everything. For me Nirvana, Sonic Youth and MBV really taught me how I wanted to play guitar.”

We were ready to tour UK/Europe with our new release so it was perfect timing. Our tour schedule is pretty full on, we have 10 UK shows in 12 days once we arrive – so [all they have planned] probably playing a lot of music.”

We are playing a heap of shows with our club ac30 label mates Pinkshinyultrablast who I’m super excited to see. Also No Joy and Cheatahs are playing a show together at the same venue the night after we play in London so we will definitely see that. Oh and the Primavera Festival lineup is pretty excellent. And of co

urse we get to see RIDE!”

check out other Australan bands like the obviously Hollow Everdaze, Hideous Towns and VHS Dream who we are playing our last Australian show with. The Melbourne psych/shoegaze scene is killer.”

 

FLYYING COLOURS – ” Not Today “

Posted: April 30, 2015 in MUSIC
Tags: , , ,
0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G12Itbv0q8s

Shoe-gaze/ psych rockers Flyying Colours are getting set to jet off to the UK and Europe this May to tour in support of the forthcoming EP “ROYGBIV”. While there the band will be performing as part of Great Escape and Primavera Sound Festivals, and supporting their Russian label mates Pinkshinyultrablast, as well as doing their own headline launch shows across Europe.

For those uninitiated, the Melbourne four piece have received their fair share of acclaim in the past few months, including respected UK music loggers and magazines the band’s new single ‘Running Late’ a “gorgeous piece of music”.  The single was the first taste from their EP titled ROYGBIV, which will have a worldwide release with the band recently signing to Club ac30 in the UK/Europe, Shelflife in the US and Vinyl Junkie in Japan.

The BLACK RYDER – ” To Never Know You ” Live at Austin Psych Fest

Posted: April 7, 2015 in MUSIC
Tags: , , ,
0

Great performance from the Black Ryder live at Austin Psych Festival taken from the DVD “Live At The Power Plant”  we can expect to be hearing a lot about Australian Rhinestone Droners, The Black Ryder.

The duo, Aimee Nash and Scott Van Ryper, have stayed true to their art on their latest album and picked up from where they left off on their debut record, not succumbing to their new Hollywood surroundings as other artists have in the past. They have a new album out now ,”The Door Behind The Door” continues the dreamy cinematic nature that was established in the band’s debut album, “Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride”, and keeps their ethereal musical perspectives alive through the forces of reverb and guitar effects on songs such as ‘Seventh Moon’ and ‘The Going Up Was Worth The Coming Down’.

The bands talent at creating beautiful songs, even without vocals. a much darker feel and a sense of loss and mourning for something that we do not know exactly what we’re mourning for. The Black Ryder have a knack for creating slow-building songs, leading to anthemic choruses and lasting outros and this is demonstrated on every vocal track on the new album. Whether it be by adding a choir of backing vocals, or adding extra keyboard, The Black Ryder certainly know how to attain an epic conclusion to a song.

CHEATAHS – ” Murasaki “

Posted: April 4, 2015 in MUSIC
Tags: , , , ,
0

http://

London shoegaze quartet Cheatahs are back like they never left after releasing February’s fierce Sunne EP. The band hits us with the title track off their new four-song EP, Murasaki, and if this kickoff is any indication, it will be an unstoppable driving force. The strict conceptual EP is inspired by Japanese poet and novelist Murasaki Shikibu. “Murasaki” in particular is inspired by a pivotal moment in Shikibu’s novel A Tale Of Genji. Just as Murasaki blended the style and techniques of the Chinese narrative poetry and Japanese prose of her time to imprint a distinctive stamp on her novel, Cheatahs have used their signature dynamic rhythms and percussion, and winding delicate sounds to interpret Shikibu’s scene in a way only they could.

SOUNDS of SPUTNIK – ” New Born ” Feat Ummagma

Posted: March 29, 2015 in MUSIC
Tags: , , ,
0

http://

“New Born” track is from the same name debut album from Moscow’s Sounds of Sputnik, is a kaleidoscope of reverb-soaked guitar, calculated drums, thick bass, and angular guitars intertwined with ethereal vocals. This is extraordinary noise-pop, with layered harmonies, interlacing synth and distorted guitars. Sounds of Sputnik paired up with Canadian-Ukrainian duo Ummagma to co-write, produce, and record this album, released on UK label Ear to Ear Records on August, 25th, 2014. Ummagma’s Shauna McLarnon and Alexx Kretov both contribute mesmerizing vocals.

This project leans heavily on a shared love of melodic dream pop, post-rock and shoegaze with each member bringing their own influences: aspects of Lush, Curve, My Bloody Valentine and No Joy cleverly blend with Hammock, Jesus & Mary Chain and The Twilight Sad to create remarkable “dream noise”.

Rewind about 12 years ago. Roman, Shauna and Alexx were collaborating a bit until Shauna and Alexx left Russia. After losing contact for an entire decade, the three finally reunited last year and quickly beginning to work on new material.

Older Entries
Newer Entries