Space Echo

The two stages of Kinoko Teikoku’s career are pretty clearly delineated into their indie era and their major label era, each covering three of their six total albums (though trainspotters would probably draw that line one album earlier, into shoegaze/non-…

I usually don’t have too much trouble deciding if I am going to title a post about non-English bands with their native language or the translations – I generally prefer the former because it’s more “authentic” and I’m pretentious like that – but I had to…

Sometimes I can’t put a finger on what it is that makes one band’s sound appealing to me while another might bore me, but in the case of London’s World News, I knew what it was immediately – they love the flanger.

My socials keep me pretty aware of any time Slowdive performs live anywhere around the world, but last weekend’s show supporting The Cure and Mogwai in Edinburgh seemed particularly amplified, what with friends and celebrities also in attendance, and so my

While they still haven’t moved into the “writing new music in the 21st century” phase of their career, Alison’s Halo have at least taken the intermediary step of recording and releasing new music written by someone else in the 21st century.

Completely at odds with most prevailing trends in the shoegaze/dreampop space, Los Angeles’ Bubble Tea & Cigarettes make songs so delicate they sound as though made of spun glass.

Having spent the time since the release of their debut album 27℃ last Summer touring, touring, and more touring (all in Asia of course), Hammer Head Shark have finally taken the time to release their first new music of 2026.

Toronto’s Otsyuda have been making a name for themselves both as one of the city’s promising new shoegaze/dreampop acts and as an international supergroup of sorts – their collective resume including Russia’s Blankenberge, Colombia’s Encarta 98 and TALES,…

After following every pre-release milestone that deary set leading up to the release of their debut full-length album Birding back in April, I’ve not checked back in because following a Spring UK/Europe tour to promote the record, they’ve kept a relatively

I haven’t done a Cure post in a while, nor an Iterations, so let’s do both!