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    #62
    Chairman Meow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭Chairman Meow


    i wouldnt be a big fan of the genre, but i think this album is classed as shoegaze, and its probably one of my favourite albums of the last few years

    Solar powered people - self titled

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WibrtzfYdGc


    Brilliant album, tho what i heard from their follow up album didnt sound nearly as good


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    #63
    Fishooks12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,318 ✭✭✭Fishooks12




    Saw beach fossils a few weeks ago in Barcelona and they were brilliant

    Their touring guitarist is this guy:



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    #64
    fillefatale
    Registered Users Posts: 2,225 ✭✭✭fillefatale


    Dragging up an old thread I know, but Ride have recently uploaded most of the singles and videos to youtube







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    #65
    SilverScreen
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    I'm really digging the album Ujubasajuba by Kairon; IRSE! from this year. It's quite trippy and weird.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvjMJcN8gh4


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    #66
    iomega
    Registered Users Posts: 277 ✭✭iomega


    Curve - Superblaster. I love the stylized production & guitar parts. Oozes coolness, still.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh25cWav6Xs


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    #67
    iomega
    Registered Users Posts: 277 ✭✭iomega


    Have a listen to Moon King. Their obsession album from last year really nails that classic shoegaze sound.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSiQj72SBb0

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa3vAPaRu4Y

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=089rkY1KtFg


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    #68
    iomega
    Registered Users Posts: 277 ✭✭iomega


    More modern electro shoegaze with psych touches.

    Melody's Echo Chamber - You Won't Be Missing That Part Of Me

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDyhl5GSje4

    Great album. Sounds Incredible. Produced by Kevin Parker of Tame Impala.

    Full album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlrRTeMq8fw


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    #69
    IamNotNumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 450 ✭✭IamNotNumber


    A place to bury strangers ..upcoming album ,upcoming gig ..If you don't know them then get busy..awesome band.


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    #70
    fillefatale
    Registered Users Posts: 2,225 ✭✭✭fillefatale


    New Irish shoegaze fb group if any of ye are on it: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1432780123678859/


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    #71
    Valmont
    Registered Users Posts: 5,856 ✭✭✭Valmont


    The husband and wife act of Joy Zipper fall squarely into the shoegaze/dreampop genre. Their album Apathy is brilliant.


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    #72
    Dubhthamlacht
    Registered Users Posts: 400 ✭✭Dubhthamlacht


    If you're looking for new bands in the shoegaze/dream pop vein, then Cork band Elastic Sleep are ones to watch. Their EP Leave You from last year was one of my favourites of 2014.


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    #73
    iomega
    Registered Users Posts: 277 ✭✭iomega


    Okay, not your typical shoegaze, but the telefon tel aviv remix of the green green grass by the american analog set is just swirling gorgeousness.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SDPG_LOM0w


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    #74
    iomega
    Registered Users Posts: 277 ✭✭iomega


    More "trad" cocteaus style shoegaze. The Cranes - Tomorrows Tears from 1991.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0riFXq_yT3s


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    #75
    Eileen Down
    Closed Accounts Posts: 266 ✭✭Eileen Down


    A few years ago artists from The Morr Music label realeased and tribute to Slowdive called "Blue Skied an' Clear".
    If you're a fan of slowdive and you like a bit of electronica, then you'll love this.



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    #76
    nlgbbbblth
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    Eileen Down wrote: »
    A few years ago artists from The Morr Music label realeased and tribute to Slowdive called "Blue Skied an' Clear".
    If you're a fan of slowdive and you like a bit of electronica, then you'll love this.


    It's brilliant - now 13 years old, came out around the time I got married.

    I liked it so much I bought it on vinyl and CD.


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    #77
    Eileen Down
    Closed Accounts Posts: 266 ✭✭Eileen Down


    nlgbbbblth wrote: »
    It's brilliant - now 13 years old, came out around the time I got married.

    I liked it so much I bought it on vinyl and CD.


    It's definitely one of my top 5 completions. I've got to know so many of the Morr music acts thanks to it. Isan, Lali Puna, Ulrich Schnaus are still making great music today.

    13 years already...that's scary, I'd much prefer it if was only forty days.


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    #78
    Eileen Down
    Closed Accounts Posts: 266 ✭✭Eileen Down


    Anybody here listening to Grouper aka Liz harris?




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    #79
    Anesthetize
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    Eileen Down wrote: »
    Anybody here listening to Grouper aka Liz harris?
    I'm a huge fan of Grouper. Even though her music is more ambient/drone it definitely has prominent a shoegaze influence, particularly on Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill.

    Here's a couple more artists that I enjoy who have blurred the boundaries between shoegaze, ambient and drone in a similar spirit to Grouper:

    Windy & Carl
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3aT9OTvpqI


    Jessica Bailiff
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNnnyhVnymc


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    #80
    Eileen Down
    Closed Accounts Posts: 266 ✭✭Eileen Down


    I'm not meaning to be a smart arse but aren't Ambient and Drone the key elements of shoegaze. I suppose they have become or have always been their own thing. I definatly agree with you about that Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill. I'm also a huge fan of her music too, I'm slowly, slowly taking in Ruins at the moment. Did you hear the colaboration she's made with The Bug?
    The music that's coming out of the kranky label the last couple of years is amazing. Their playlist on soundcloud is really worth listening to.





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    #81
    roll
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    SilverScreen wrote: »
    A shoegaze band with a flute player anyone? Blind Mr. Jones were jokingly dubbed the "Jethro Tull of shoegaze" by the media in the early 90's, but they have some solid guitars to back it up. Their 1992 album Stereo Musicale is a must have.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlPAxowzYTQ


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP2JMUzpYHk

    blind mr jones was a chris hufford creation who i think produced the slowdive albums? i would google and find out but am still shocked that blind mr jones are on boards.ie!


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    #82
    Anesthetize
    Registered Users Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭Anesthetize


    Eileen Down wrote: »
    I'm not meaning to be a smart arse but aren't Ambient and Drone the key elements of shoegaze. I suppose they have become or have always been their own thing.
    I've always felt that shoegaze itself flirted with ambient and drone but never completely crossed over.
    roll wrote: »
    blind mr jones was a chris hufford creation who i think produced the slowdive albums? i would google and find out but am still shocked that blind mr jones are on boards.ie!
    Chris Hufford produced a lot of bands of that period including Blind Mr. Jones and Slowdive. He also produced some early Radiohead recordings.


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    #83
    Dandelion6
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    I've always felt that there were kind of two sides of shoegaze, the ambient/drone side and the noisy guitar side. Kind of like shoegaze was born from a marriage of the Jesus and Mary Chain and the Cocteau Twins, and some of the children inherited more from one parent than from the other.


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    #84
    daUbiq
    Registered Users Posts: 420 ✭✭daUbiq


    Dandelion6 wrote: »
    I've always felt that there were kind of two sides of shoegaze, the ambient/drone side and the noisy guitar side. Kind of like shoegaze was born from a marriage of the Jesus and Mary Chain and the Cocteau Twins, and some of the children inherited more from one parent than from the other.

    Makes sense! I reckon the cocteau twins or maybe the cure are the original shoegazers!


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    #85
    Birneybau
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    NSFW but one of my favourite bands of the last few years.




    Also, another of my favourite bands, EVER!



    Actually, one more came to mind, incredible.



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    #86
    Anesthetize
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    daUbiq wrote: »
    Makes sense! I reckon the cocteau twins or maybe the cure are the original shoegazers!
    Both have certainly had a big influence, Cocteau Twins more so than The Cure. Could also throw in The Chameleons, Lowlife, Loop and This Scarlet Train as precursors.

    But when I think original shoegazers I think MBV with Isn't Anything.


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    #87
    Dandelion6
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    Anesthetize wrote: »
    But when I think original shoegazers I think MBV with Isn't Anything.

    Yes, so do I.


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    #88
    daUbiq
    Registered Users Posts: 420 ✭✭daUbiq


    I never really considered "Isn't Anything" a shoegaze album, more like odd indie pop. My entry point into the classic shoe gaze sound was the early Ride and Slowdive EP's. I'd grown up with the Cocteau Twins and The Cure but didn't think much of Isn't Anything when it was released... Loveless on the other hand is definitely a shoegaze album. It has the guitar sound but "Isn't Anything" doesn't sound like shoe gaze to me at all. Loveless is, in my opinion, a far superior album which I listen to intermittently but for me Slowdive and Ride were more important because at the time they released more records, played more gigs, did more press and were only a few years older than me, whereas in 1990/1991 MBV were already beginning to fall apart.


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    roll
    Registered Users Posts: 565 ✭✭✭roll


    Anesthetize wrote: »
    I've always felt that shoegaze itself flirted with ambient and drone but never completely crossed over.


    Chris Hufford produced a lot of bands of that period including Blind Mr. Jones and Slowdive. He also produced some early Radiohead recordings.

    chris hufford was (in) BMJ? not (just) d producer?


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    #90
    roll
    Registered Users Posts: 565 ✭✭✭roll


    have loved reading through this thread over the last day or two... i just remember 'shoegazers' being a laughing stock back in the early 90's! from an irish perspective, do Cane141 count?


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    #91
    seachto7
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    New Swervedriver album next month folks.


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