‘Forever Falling Toward the Sky’ by Vestals

A blissful ebb of pink noise from San Franciscan musician Lisa McGee that seeks to embrace you with cocoon-like intimacy. And as much as the title submits unto the infinite, it’s cyclical mantras and hypnotic rhythms too begin to feel like a therapeutic release from anxiety.

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‘Junior’ by No Joy

A swirling jolt of uptempo shoegaze with a winning combination of pleasant, soft harmonies and ecstatic punk energy. From their upcoming EP called Negaverse, which, taken together with their band name, feels kind of misrepresentative of their sublimely exhilarating sound.

gimmetinnitus:

Alan Watts - Lee’s Child [GT Track of the Week]

Duelling vocal tracks interlock over swirling soft noise like the radio dial is stuck between two transmissions from Planet Shoegaze — a drone so Sonic Youthian I’m going to go ahead and assume the titular Lee refers to Lee Ranaldo.

‘Even The Blind’ by Echo Lake

With it’s introductory cavernous echoes being quickly swept aside by dulcet voices beckoning “Let’s go outside tonight, and look at the sky this time”, this first taste from their much anticipated debut LP Wild Peace sounds very much like a coming out statement for the band, who up till now had walled their bountiful soundscapes in thick layers of distortion. Their expansive sound yearns for spacious runtimes and clean frequencies, the likes of which a professionally produced full-length can afford, and it’ll be thrilling to see how they’ll stretch creatively.

The five minute Even The Blind is a beautiful and vivid starting point. You can practically hear the twinkle in the stars and feel the breathy textures of singer Linda Jarvis’ weaving vocals, with no sonic tide to wash any of those details away.

mhisadj:

Damn, this is lovely.

sociopathsareglam:

Be Forest - “I Quit Girls” -

Pretty much our favourite Italian band right now, Be Forest, have premiered their cover of ‘I Quit Girls’ by Japandroids, and it sounds huge, and also very different from the original.

Love this band.

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Insanely gorgeous.

‘Moonstruck’ by The Megaphonic Thrift

The Norwegian super-group’s contribution to the current spacey zeitgeist (following on from Air, Frankie Rose, Newt Gingrich etc.) utilises glittery guitar effects and listless vocals to create a wonderful aurora of shoegaze. It’s a much more serene counterpart to the album’s aggressive and driving opener Tune Your Mind. You can stream the rest of their loud new debut at the source.

(via The Line Of Best Fit)

‘Spies’ by Warrior Line

Percolating industrial shoegaze from LA that feels like a four minute resurrection of ’80s era 4AD. I can’t get enough.

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‘Too Long’ by Love Of Diagrams

The Melbourne trio’s first new material since 2009 comes in the form a new 7” Single called In My Dream, but the B-Side’s dizzying frenzy of shoegaze/punk is much more of a comeback statement.

‘Tune Your Mind’ by The Megaphonic Thrift

Made up from members of four different Norwegian groups, Megaphonic Thrift’s sprawling sound encompasses everything from messy noise-rock, to sharp, riff-laden punk to psychedelic shoegaze, all of which are evident here in Tune Your Mind, the lead track from their upcoming sophomore LP. It’s a title AND a user guide on how to approach their music.

(via Ja Ja Ja)

‘Sage Along My Life’ by Go Cozy

Head Underwater posted a song of theirs yesterday but I’m totally gravitating to their new B-side, which sounds like a feather-light Slowdive.

‘Creatures Flaming’ by The N.E.C.

Texturally dense shoegazing from Atlanta. The dreamily laconic chord progressions and barely-present vocals drown almost completely in reverb, which makes all those moments when it comes up for air that much more pleasing.

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‘Junebouvier’ by Whirr

So monosyllabic shoegazers Whirl are now Whirr, which is just as apt in describing the kind of headrush-inducing wall of noise they produce.

(via Brooklyn Vegan)