“It Is What It Is.” An Interview With Darksoft
credit/ Look Up Records “For lyrics on Beigeification, I’m using a lot of “thought-terminating cliches,” or beige phrases as I’ve come to call them,” says Darksoft, a singer/songwriter/producer/polymath from Portland, … Continue reading
15 Essential Autumn Music Albums
Ah, September 22… the Autumn is finally upon us. The leaves will soon be changing, lazy drifting on languid breezes shortly to be crunched underfoot, while the scent of woodsmokes … Continue reading
Ringo Deathstarr – Ringo Deathstarr album review
On their first album in 5 years, Austin, TX’s Ringo Deathstarr trade in more mainstream shoegaze for more esoteric influences. When My Bloody Valentine were on an indefinite hiatus in … Continue reading
This Is Dream Punk: Seasurfer – Under The Milkyway… Who Cares? review
Hamburg ‘dream punk’ trio Seasurfer return with their thrashiest yet most beautiful and soothing statement to date. The soundtrack for the revolutionary dreams. The originators of both shoegaze and dream … Continue reading
Songs From A Room: The XX – I See You album review (Young Turks) ((w/ DJ Guide))
Gauzy London dream pop return with their most personal, confrontational, organic, confident record to date – somewhat ironically, considering their busy schedules and prolific use of samples. The meteoric rise … Continue reading
Shoegaze Sunday: Landing – Complekt (These Are Not Records, 2016)
THIS IS DREAM PSYCH New Haven, CT’s Landing return with a beguiling mixture of shoegaze, psych rock, dream pop, slowcore, and kosmische for their 10th LP. It’s one of their … Continue reading
Ghostly Pointilist Pop: Emma Russack – In A New State
Like a pointilist painting, life can be difficult to make sense of when you’re close to it. Sometimes, it requires shaking things up, going somewhere new, where you don’t know … Continue reading
Welcome Back, Lush! Lush – Blind Spot EP (Edamame)
Shoegaze/Dream Pop legends Lush return with their first new material in 20 years, managing to sound relevant and fresh and timeless, simultaneously. Shoegaze might possibly be the most mistreated musical … Continue reading
Expanding Slowcore: Low – Ones And Sixes
Duluth, MN’s Low return with possibly the most consistent album of their Sub Pop era, while still innovating and pushing forward. Apart from My Bloody Valentine, perhaps no band has … Continue reading
Submissions: Perren Street Parade – Selling The Family Silver
With the whole world falling in love with Slowdive all over again, with their reformation, the timing is apt to be introduced to Perren Street Parade. Perren Street Parade started … Continue reading
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