Shoegaze

[Leon]

I'm looking for some good Shoegaze music, although it doesn't have to be pure shoegaze. I'm already getting into MBV's Loveless and some albums by Slowdive and Ride. I also have a song by Bowery Electric, called "Fear Of Flying", which is delicious. If anyone knows any more music in that direction (preferably not sounding too dated) please tell me :)

[crank]

Working for a Nuclear Free city have picked up the mantle quite nicely.

Older MUST have releases:
Swervedriver Mezcalhead
Spiritualized Pure Phase or Ladies and Gentlemen We are floating in Space

[Leon]

Working for a Nuclear Free city have picked up the mantle quite nicely.

Older MUST have releases:
Swervedriver Mezcalhead
Spiritualized Pure Phase or Ladies and Gentlemen We are floating in Space

Thanks. I already know WFANFC and yeah they are fantastic. I'll check the others out.

[Jafs]

Check

"In Ribbons" by Pale Saints
"Split" by Lush

;)

[mmm skyscraper]

The Bowery Electric album that Fear of Flying is on is good. It's called Beat.

Other albums:

Ecstasy of Saint Theresa - Susurrate
Lush - Gala
Lush - Spooky
Secret Shine - Untouched (the best track is called Underworld)
Pale Saints - The Comforts of Madness

Inspirations:

Cocteau Twins - Treasure (everything by Cocteau Twins is good)
Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy

[crank]

Sorry, meant to include Swervedrivers-Raise.

[crank]

Found a blog that has a good sampling featuring "shoegaze"
http://boxsetgo.blogspot.com/

Curve, I forgot about Curve... man were they good. Toni Halliday.mmm

[ndrwrld]

i wish Curve would reunite...kicking myself in the ass for never seeing them here.
mmmmm toni

[beh]

for something a little more recent, I'd suggest Doves' "Lost Souls" (2000).

bh

PS. Slowdive and Ride are ace.

[Tiger]

Found a blog that has a good sampling featuring "shoegaze"
http://boxsetgo.blogspot.com/

Curve, I forgot about Curve... man were they good. Toni Halliday.mmm

unfortunately they never imo matched the beauty of their first 3 eps, which u can pick up as an album pubic fruit.

slowdive had some good stuff, soulvaki (sp) space station is blissful

swervedrivers first two albums are classics imo (they are playing oxford & london end of november too if anyones interested)

of newer stuff autolux's 'future perfect' is brilliant and everyone who i've introduced to it can't understand why they aren't big and the pains of being pure of heart debut lp is good too although at the poppier end of the spectrum

[Leon]

of newer stuff autolux's 'future perfect' is brilliant and everyone who i've introduced to it can't understand why they aren't big and the pains of being pure of heart debut lp is good too although at the poppier end of the spectrum

A friend of mine told me about them, i'm gonna check it out. I think I've heard 1 or 2 tracks and it sounded really good. And the not understanding why they aren't big... same applies with Working For A Nuclear Free City in my opinion.

Anyway, a suggestion of my own... I actually kind of forgot about it, but Guitar's "Sunkissed" album has a definite shoegaze feel to it. It's not brilliant and you might not like her voice, but I think the songs are pretty good. In any case, the track Sunkissed (which I heard on Dirtyradio some years back) is amazing. "Feel Flows Free" and "How So Bright Of Universe" are pretty sweet as well.

[Flywaver]

Without a doubt Curve were a top band.
Check out The Big Pink. Debut album out now :cool:

[Future Proof]

I <3 shoegaze, enormously. There's something about the hazy, whirling sounds that really do it for (to) me.

Many of the recommendations in this thread are ace, and I've got a few bands not listed here that are can't-miss acts. But I'll just list CDs and for the harder to find ones, some links to songs to see if you wanna track down the CD or not:

Lush - Gala
Lush - Spooky
Lush - Split
Ulrich Schnauss - his whole body of work

Airiel - The Battle Of Sealand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jP_JdJKBxM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qG_s1dhcPU

Love Spirals Downwards - Ardor
http://www.imeem.com/people/IhvHhO/music/ytxeD4Bq/love-spirals-downwards-depression-glass/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0uga6_XPcs

Serena Maneesh - Serena Maneesh
http://lala.com/z7Br

Catherine Wheel - Ferment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcrj-FFK4MM

Love Spirals Downwards and Serena Maneesh have been big in my rotation lately. The former is almost a bit too mellow and new-agey to be considered shoegaze but their guitarist is amazing and the singer is absolutely ethereal, and pretty much all of their tunes are hugely epic sounding. Serena Maneesh is a newer shoegaze band and I love their self-titled album because most of the songs aren't blurry from start to finish but rather, they start off very focused and then nail you with a wall of guitar, to dramatic effect.

Anyways, hope you find something you like, check back in and let us know what you've found!

[stimpee]

BrotherLovesDub/Biznotic will be along im sure, and Professor loves the shoegaze too AFAIK.

Me? i experienced all that first hand when it came out and loved it. All the introspection :p

Just where is that MBV box set anyway?

Memory is faded.

I loved the album Erotica by The Darling Buds. poppy shoegaze but excellent stuff. You can tell theyve been listening to Loveless :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotica_%28The_Darling_Buds_album%29

[stimpee]

mmmm had some time to think. bands? Revolver, Drop, Chapterhouse, Moose, Moscow Olympics, Jesus & Marychain, Slowdive, Curve, Lush, Cocteau Twins, Doves, Bark Psychosis, (early) Verve, Bowery Electric, Catherine Wheel, The Werefrogs, Submarine, The Belltower just to name a few.

[crank]

I <3 shoegaze, enormously. There's something about the hazy, whirling sounds that really do it for (to) me.

Catherine Wheel - Ferment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcrj-FFK4MM

Anyways, hope you find something you like, check back in and let us know what you've found!

No idea how i forgot about these guys... Chrome is a good one too, but more guitary.

Ferment was crucial to my listening experience back when it came out in 89(?) 90(?)

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Please refer to my song of the day, today's date.

[Tiger]

(early) Verve, Catherine Wheel

as i've said on here before verve's first 3 eps and before they had to add the to their name were works of sonic genius. the 8 minute version of garvity grave is a pyschedlic monster.

loved catherine wheel as a kid, going to try and dig out chrome tonight if i an find it, haven't heard that in years.

one band that hasn't been mentioned is adorable, while not of the same quality their 1st 3 eps were brilliant pop shoegazing records

[Jafs]

Just discovering a beautiful album recommended by my official shoegaze dealer:

Chapterhouse - Whirlpool


stimpee named them already.

[stimpee]

Everything that Verve did from 1992-1994 is just epic. I wish they'd get their radio sessions released, especially the Peel session from 1992 and the Hit The North session. I have some badly recorded from radio at the time and they dont sound so good. I think theres an unreleased track on there somewhere.

[crank]

IF you don't have Voyager 1 Stimp, go track it down. Doubtful you can find the ACTUAL release (it's a bootleg?) but it's a stormer.

It's a live release that captures the sonic goodness Verve had back in the day. If you can't find it, I'll send you my mp3's that i've gathered from it.

[oceanic]

Try the album "69" by the band A.R. Kane. It's like a dub-reggae-shoegaze fusion and it's delicious.

[stimpee]

IF you don't have Voyager 1 Stimp, go track it down. Doubtful you can find the ACTUAL release (it's a bootleg?) but it's a stormer.

It's a live release that captures the sonic goodness Verve had back in the day. If you can't find it, I'll send you my mp3's that i've gathered from it.I have a good CD copy of Voyager 1, cant hear any artifacts even though its gotta be from vinyl (was never released on CD). Its a bootleg AFAIK, and it wasnt released on Hut in the UK though definitely soundboard.

Try and grab their Camden 1992 gig on video. It should be floating around somewhere. Its Pro-shot for Japanese TV i think. I'll have to get the recordings ive got and gather them up...

[Flywaver]

I have a good CD copy of Voyager 1, cant hear any artifacts even though its gotta be from vinyl (was never released on CD). Its a bootleg AFAIK, and it wasnt released on Hut in the UK though definitely soundboard.

Try and grab their Camden 1992 gig on video. It should be floating around somewhere. Its Pro-shot for Japanese TV i think. I'll have to get the recordings ive got and gather them up...

Are we talking before 'All In The Mind' here?
Slide Away was simply awesome track...

[Flywaver]

I think i rate A Northern Soul as The Verve's finest album and im a sucker for Love Is Noise... :)

[stimpee]

Are we talking before 'All In The Mind' here?
Slide Away was simply awesome track...All In The Mind was 1992, and the camden show is from that tour. I saw them on that tour (I think it was that tour), they were supporting Spiritualized on their Lazer Guided Melodies tour at the Leadmill in Sheffield.

I'd love a copy of any live stuff from 1992-1994 period.

[crank]

i would say Voyager 1 was pre All in the Mind. You have a cD copy? wow. All i have are lousy Mp3's that i scrounged up.

I saw them in 91 or 92 in Athens, GA. It was me, the band and 10 other people smallest show I've ever seen in the 40 watt, but they tore it up. Couldn't believe how few people were in there...

[holden]

Agree with the Lush.
How about some Explosions in the Sky, or The Album Leaf or Mogwai?

Personally, i've always felt "shoegaze" to be a very limited, niche genre. It was well and good when i was a moody, depressed college kid. But we all grow up, and life's frankly more serious than the sentiments of this music express. I guess, if it gets you though whatever and scores your sentimental gloom, that's great. Once you've got bills and job deadlines, the adolescent "charm" kind of wears off...

[Flywaver]

Agree with the Lush.
How about some Explosions in the Sky, or The Album Leaf or Mogwai?

Personally, i've always felt "shoegaze" to be a very limited, niche genre. It was well and good when i was a moody, depressed college kid. But we all grow up, and life's frankly more serious than the sentiments of this music express. I guess, if it gets you though whatever and scores your sentimental gloom, that's great. Once you've got bills and job deadlines, the adolescent "charm" kind of wears off...

But alot of bands were too young at the time when there debut albums were that sound.. Ride, The Verve, and Slowdive too i believe progressed to the beginnings of the Britpop genre

[Leon]

I've come to love Bowery Electric's Beat. At first I only liked a few tracks on the album that had a more electronic influence, but I'm really into the guitar stuff now, I love it.

[stimpee]

Leon:

AMUSEMENT PARKS ON FIRE

Een muur van geluid met gitaren die loeien als stofzuigers. Bij voorkeur gespeeld door een stel gasten die naar hun schoenen staren. Amusement Parks On Fire tapt flink uit het vaatje van de uitvinders van de shoegaze (My Bloody Valentine), maar dan wél met verstaanbare zang over melodieuze en hypnotische gitaarrock. Die stevige sound wordt afgewisseld met strijkers en soundscape-achtige passages die bijna IJslands aandoen. Logisch, de laatste plaat Out Of The Angeles is in de studio van de IJslanders opgenomen. Deze tour wordt begeleid door nieuw werk middels de EP Young Fight, het derde album staat gepland voor begin 2010. Oordoppen verplicht!

13.11.09 | Effenaar - Eindhoven | tickets
14.11.09 | Patronaat - Haarlem | tickets
15.11.09 | EKKO - Utrecht | tickets

[Leon]

Thanks, will keep it in mind.

Anyway, did I already mention Working For A Nuclear Free City? Some of you probably know them already, but if you don't, there's every reason to do it immediately. Get Businessmen & Ghosts and you're set. Just discovered how amazing the second disc actually is.

[ultradave]

...one band that hasn't been mentioned is adorable

their 1993 release "Against Perfection" has some great tracks. i was surprised that no one made mention of them till your post.

a few others w/elements reminiscent of the sound:

Kitchens of Distinction - "Death of Cool" is a great album in it's entirety and if you get a chance listen to a track called "Sand On Fire" from their "Cowboys & Aliens" release.

on a more current side of things - I found Asobi Seksu's album "Hush" to be hitting the mark quite nicely. "Sing Tomorrow's Praise" and "Gliss" are my faves.

an up and coming Los Angeles band Helen Stellar are highly influenced in this genre - they have a few ep's released and 1 release with them all on 1 disc - "A Prayer to Myself". they're currently working on a new release - you can listen to a few of their new tracks on facebook.

there's one more newer group that has some cool shoegaze influenced stuff coming out, but the name escapes me... i'll post it later.

i'm glad i found this post - there's all kinds of other shoegaze and influenced style bands i haven't heard of yet. thanks to my fellow shoegaze loving dirts!

[ultradave]

there's one more newer group that has some cool shoegaze influenced stuff coming out, but the name escapes me... i'll post it later.

Chemicolour - http://www.wearechemicolour.com/

Listent to "2 Hearts & Chemicals" - great stuff!

[2 hearts and chemicals]

Chemicolour - http://www.wearechemicolour.com/

Listent to "2 Hearts & Chemicals" - great stuff!

Thanks Dave! This is a great forum! New project from the same guys behind Chemicolour - 2 Hearts and Chemicals

http://www.facebook.com/pages/2-Hearts-and-Chemicals/217963064895069?sk=wall

:)

[stimpee]

thread alive! Did anyone find any other Verve 92-93 bootlegs?

I want to hear that SONIC CATHEDRAL OF SOUND.

http://sonic.kathedral.com/indexx.htm

[ultradave]

Thanks Dave! This is a great forum! New project from the same guys behind Chemicolour - 2 Hearts and Chemicals

http://www.facebook.com/pages/2-Hearts-and-Chemicals/217963064895069?sk=wall

:)

Great stuff. Thanks for the link! I had posted a band called Helen Stellar. They have their first full album release up on bandcamp. Cheers!

http://helenstellar.bandcamp.com/