School of Seven Bells – The Night
Yeah, that’s the new School of Seven Bells line up. My first thought was, what happened to Claudia? And then I remembered she left like, last year. :( Sad times. Vagrant has just hit us up with this brand new track, The Night from the upcoming album Ghostory and their signature dreamy harmonies that I...
Rituals
A gem to sort out this shitty Sunday afternoon. Unfamiliar Records dropped the lowdown on Rituals‘ upcoming new EP. (Rituals is not to be confused with Ritualz by the way, people.) I don’t know why but the inner hipster in me is connecting with this band. I like the hazy photography, the chillwave-y vocals, how...
Death In Plains – Colorful
My third post on Death In Plains and it’s worth it. Enrico Boccioletti’s got a new track out released approx 2 weeks back and I was too late to pounce on it. It’s called Colorful and the video is super chilled, shot with a filtered lense. [Video: Death In Plains - Colorful] Disc Error Recordings‘...
Dream Cop – Beach City Carol I Know (Teen Daze Remix)
Hailing from Washington D.C., Dream Cop is multi-instrumentalist Tommy Davidson. And like his artist moniker suggests, he makes music of the “dreamy” kind, namely, shoegaze-y indie that has found a new name, Chillwave. I’ve mentioned several times in this blog about why I hate the term chillwave and why I feel the movement needs an...
Death In Plains Mustard Polo EP Remixes
Gonna do another post on Death In Plains because he’s just great. Just got word from DiscError that the Mustard Polo EP has been given the remixes treatment and usually I scoff at such vain efforts but this package is almost as good as the original. Featuring remixes by my favorite These New Puritans which...
Golden Birthday
Golden Birthday. Pop in slowmotion. Lazy guitars strummed over the drone of feedback. Melancholy vocals singing about the past, reverb-ed, echo across the hall. Like some distant teenage memory coming back to haunt you. Noise in the back like an omen, pimples. Photographic amnesia, the ray of the sun caught your eye, flashbacks, wool jumpers,...
Pale Sketcher
Not just some metal guy gone soft, Justin K Broadrick is first and foremost an experimental genius. His credentials as guitarist of grindcore pioneers Napalm Death and founder of harsh industrial / IDM / metal band Godflesh only form a small part of his wide-ranging soundscape palate. I remembered being in an experimental screamy noise...
Death In Plains
Forget Washed Out. Death In Plains is the one you want to watch. Enrico Boccioletti’s brand of lo-fi bleached out chilled pop is so much more progressive than Washed Out. I hate the term “chillwave” but you get the idea. Death In Plains is like WAVVES colliding with Future Islands / Light Pollution and has...
Songs For Walter
You have only got Holiday recs to thank for this one. It really is a prized find. Songs For Walter is Ed and Laurie from Manchester and I honestly cannot get this track out of my head. The vocals is shoegaze pop innocence behind an acoustic guitar. But it’s that raging, looping droning feedback at...
The Sight Below
The Sight Below is the background sound that sets the tone for those lonely nights. Swirling underwater guitars on loop -Â echo, hymn and wail. The ache is intense and yet comforting at the same time. This is too forward-thinking for shoegaze, too intimate to be called ambient. It is the whirling prelude to a...
