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your shugazi AOTY edition. it's almost time for top 10 lists. what shoegaze albums will make it to your best of 2015?
PSUB for sure. one of the few nu-gaze bands that actually bring something new to the table.
>dem melodies and breakdowns
good shit.
>>60628322
nice thread picture
>>60628353
PSUB?
>>60628421
pinkshinyultrablast's Everything Else Matters
>>60628437
Oh shit they have a new album out? Loved that EP but I figured they'd never do anything else again
>>60628470
yeah broseph, and its fucking excellent
https://mega.nz/#F!qpw3AByA!o0S-6TYfX1c2wgYsUHiW9w
and while we're at it, does anyone have an upload of Electro Group's umi? searched all over and nothing :c
>>60628518
Holy shit thanks a ton
>>60628518
ummo, i mean. still had PSUB on the brain.
>>60628322
>>60629486
Why do upbeat shoegaze albums always lack texture?
>>60630034
Except for Swirlies
Xinlisupreme
>>60628543
Damn that ep isn't on What
>>60630325
This for sure
It's obviously this with this >>60628553
being a close second
I made this a couple of threads ago. Suggest edits/updates. Somebody made this http://strawpoll.me/5983077/ a while ago too so keep voting on that I guess
Remember when you were just getting into shoegaze and you'd just go through all the suggestions in /shugazi/, find things you like and listen to them on repeat.
Help me feel like that again, I enjoyed Distressor, A certain smile, a certain sadness, Eyedazzler, The pains of being p a h, Velodromo EP and much more but lately I've just gone back to The power of failing and Pictures can tell like, some of the more emo stuff but miss the general shoegaze sound.
If there is a soft, melodic, bit noisy, shoegaze album talking about giving up, fading into the crowd, suicide and depression please let me have it.
>>60632762
Dråpe - Relax/Relapse
>>60632908
>>60632908
You need Xinlisupreme, it was mentioned earlier in this thread. It's probably my album of the year
>>60632665
>>60630325
It's amazing, I'd vote for this one
>>60628518
Thank you anon!
>>60633005
Impossible for me to get into, can't relate to the artists if the music sounds like they just put out something bad and hoped that the hipsters like it.
>>60633018
Giving it a listen.
>>60633175
>Impossible for me to get into, can't relate to the artists if the music sounds like they just put out something bad and hoped that the hipsters like it.
Oh man triggered
>>60628322
>>60633175
>Impossible for me to get into, can't relate to the artists if the music sounds like they just put out something bad and hoped that the hipsters like it.
>About to listen to Xinlisupreme
hey can i share something ive made? im really eager to show it to people but i dont wanna harsh you guys buzz if your not into that. heres a ringo deathstarr song as penance
penance
>>60633718
woops lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAVv5G1jkW4
>>60633718
Whatever man go ahead
>>60633887
cool. i just ask cos people understandably get in a fit about it.
https://weouthere2010.bandcamp.com/
Updated. Not-90%-black-and-white-edition
>>60633934
that helen record is kinda frustrating to listen to because it feels like liz doing a parody of liz. like the record itself feels very run-of-the-mill dream pop type thing and the only thing that gives it an edge at all sonically is lizs vocals, and yet they are still obnoxiously low in the mix and drenched in verb like all the rest of her shit. as if some random is doing an impression of her.
>>60633934
I'd probably like My Dead Girlfriend a lot more if it weren't for the fake cutesey anime girl vocals.
>>60633934
Get New Bermuda out of there
So dull
>>60634023
I completely agree
>>60634104
There needs to be at least 1 blackgaze album on there, I personally love Moonlover but I've seen it get a fair amount of flack around /mu/. Bosse-de-nage - All Fours is completely solid, but I feel might be pushing the /shugazi/ tag
do these two albums count?
Whats /shugazi/'s favourite Astrobrite album?
>>60634769
That one
>>60634769
c r u s h
I listened to it while on n-bome last week and it was it was so fucking amazing. If you can get your hands on the stuff, definitely trip to that album.
>>60634307
Title Fight does imo
>>60633934
As far as the derivative poppy shoegaze niche goes, I think I prefer this to Pure Mood
>>60636203
What's the consensus here?
Electro Group - Good Technology (2007) [V0]
>shoegaze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gTMyBdJYT8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bv-znV7PQE
https://mega.nz/#!kIVEWbqT!f0LTiWfz09jLYifyZoE8l0xXJ6zd6xKkU5Nkt5o6ApY
Is PSUB's album really the best shugazi album this year?
Like, it's good but it's really not even close to being an AOTY contender for me
>>60636657
I only had 1 full listen and that it was pretty meh but I did hear a song of theirs from that album on the radio, months after listening to it and liked it
>>60637439
>Is PSUB's album really the best shugazi album this year?
Yes.
>Like, it's good but it's really not even close to being an AOTY contender for me
That's because shoegaze in general has been super weak since the mid-late 90s. Still the best of its own genre.
what does /shugazi/ think of the new Wild Nothing songs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XVwA4XCDeM
I dig em
Is /shugazi/ the most active shoegaze discussion thread/forum on the internet? r/shoegaze doesn't even come close in terms of activity.
>>60637591
Probably. What.cd has a shoegaze irc channel. Don't know if it active though.
>>60636495
likewise, ringo deathstarr hasnt sounded good to me since colour trip
>>60636495
If you like this band you must are either under 18 or discovered loveless in the last year. One of the most blatantly derivative, soulless pieces of shit ive ever heard
>>60628470
they also released a 10" in september
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkGfdwBMXns
very big year for them
>>60637654
I really like her nudes though
I wonder if she'd autograph a copy
Is blackgaze dead, you guys?
>>60638614
Was it ever really alive?
Hey not that I like being this guy but does anyone have a DL link for Trementina - Almost Reach The Sun? Can't find one anywhere and it sounds pretty awesome
>>60637439
No it's not, Spectres's is superior. PSUB's feels like another one of the pile, so generic.
>>60638768
You have the names switched, sorry.
>>60639030
this
>>60638768
You can't say shit like that when you're this new to shoegaze
I like overwhelming washes of sound, kind of like the ending to Slowdives Alison. Come to think of it, I like Slowdive a lot. Are there any other bands I could listen to in their vein? Tried Mbv but they were kind of hit or miss to me. Not so much into the poppy/jangly stuff, but more of the washes of guitar sounds and melodramatic depression.
>>60639425
>if you don't like this album you have to be a newfag
Give me a fucking break.
>>60639533
If you think Spectres isn't generic, you're a newfag
>>60639544
They're both good albums for sure- to shit on Spectres is to shit on edgy, noisier shoegaze. To shit on PSUB's new album is to shit on lovely, dreamy shoegaze. They're the best in their respective weight classes.
>>60639602
Noisy shoegaze AOTY is either the new APTBS or Xinlisupreme, my friend. Spectres is aight
>>60639524
There's plenty of slowdivey stuff out there, friend. But it sounds like you're more into "dream pop" than "shoegaze."
I'm not sure how new you are but you should definitely check out 'Heaven or Las Vegas' by Cocteau Twins and 'Whirlpool' by Chapterhouse. Maybe 'A Storm In Heaven' by The Verve. I'd say Moose but they're a bit jangly I guess. Deerhunter is a pretty sweet band, try 'Microcastle' for something more modern. 'Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill' by Grouper if you can stand the ear-melting reverbey shit going on. That's all I can think of for now.
>>60637911
I saw them supporting Pinkshinyultrablast earlier in the year, can confirm that it's just derivative crap.
>>60639832
wtf where did you see psub?
I'm following them with rose petals if they ever come here.
>>60639849
Nottingham, UK. Must have been around March time I guess?
>>60639878
anyone from america that you've been wanting to see but it seems they never come?
>>60639932
Honestly there's so many that I find it hard to order in my head, not all of them shoegaze related. I guess for some bands, having a UK tour is just too expensive for them, as I imagine a US tour is for a lot of european bands.
>>60639957
well if you think of any please post them so I can take advantage of what opportunity might otherwise go unappreciated by me.
holy moses is my biggest one. they keep playing some barge show off the coast of florida that makes me think at leats one of them can't get in the country. I had that happen before with zeni geva
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_sK0682YDM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdTJorsKDk8
>>60628322
shoe gays lmao
got bored in class
>>60638614
>cuddling with neige
lost. just imagining neige in kpn makes me lost
>>60637911
Yeah, but so is Ringo Deathstarr.
>>60641395
but those nudes
What other albums fit well into the drone shoegaze category?
>>60642083
do you have full chart?
>>60638614
I guess it's not exactly what you're looking for, but this was a pretty decent record! Continuous and pretty melodic for BM...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88xkpch-hRw
Though I think I liked their old EP even better, it's just a droney black n' roll masterclass
http://records.eisenton.de/album/dromers
>>60642171
I gotcha f a m
>>60641143
p cool
>>60638267
Haven't heard of that so I looked it up.
Cute pic, but that's more thanks to the subject than any "explicitness", the photo itself was quite innocent and arty, really.
Does anyone have a DL link for Shunkan's new LP The Pink Noise?
>>60630325
They're really good at being gleefully abrasive, it's great.
Has anyone seen Deafheaven live and are they any good?
Don't like them much but I'm still weighing up going to Cosmosis Fest when I've already seen JAMC and Sleaford Mods this year.
>>60642296
>Loop but no Spacemen 3
what's going on here
>>60645150
They're amazing live. Dude has an incredibly commanding stage presence.
>>60628322
SOTY for me.
https://growhouse.bandcamp.com/album/never-say
>>60645211
Nice, thanks. Want to see BJM mainly then there's a couple other bands I find alright but I'm not sure if I can afford it.
Just bought TITP tickets which I'm regretting already. Wanted to see Stone Roses but the line ups recently are pretty awful and supposedly the atmosphere is equally bad.
>>60642083
Nadja - Queller? There's gotta be a Nadja album under drone shoegaze right? Or somewhere on the chart?
>>60645189
Yeah I'm really not sure how you can have Heaven's End by Loop and not Sound of Confusion by Spacemen 3. Been confusing me ever since I first saw this chart being circulated. Still a nice chart though.
>>60645189
>>60645501
I think that was supposed to be just an early version of the chart and that the guys working on it were supposed to keep making changes, but one of the guys has some personal shit going on and couldn't continue.
Any listeners of grandeur of hair can tell me what albums are most similar to it?
>>60645707
Just take astrobrite's whitenoise superstar and slow it down to half speed
>>60628518
thanks!
>>60645725
sensiblechuckle.jpg
>>60639602
>spectres
>edgy, noisier shoegaze
Are we talking about Dying? Because that album is barely noisy at all, just generic rock riffs with slightly more distortion than usual. Biggest disappointment of the year after all they hype you guys gave it.
>>60630325
anyone got a link for this?
I'm new to shoegaze
Post your favorite shoegaze album of all time that's not loveless
>>60645223
Hey, what do you know... This is actually incredible.
>>60648250
Psychocandy
>but it's not shoegaze
I don't really care
>>60632762
King Woman
>>60633903
I love hearing what other people here make, wish they'd post more often. This is pretty great other than the obviously ridiculously short length. You have a fantastic album opener in Bataclan, now you just need to actually write the album.
this is easily the best thing to come out of 2015
>>60648965
some songs on this are *too poppy and blatant 80's ripoffs tbf
>>60642296
cheers m8
>>60648529
thanks man, glad you gave it a shake. yeah im trying, its really hard getting in the zone and trying to write seriously cos this si the first time ive done stuff like this before
anon got some depressing shoegaze?
Is this shoegaze?
https://youtu.be/KvknOXGPzCQ
>>60655441
Not shoegaze but Deftones in particular Chino are into shugazi stuff like Cocteau Twins and MBV
I haven't been here for a while, can we talk about Yuri Gagarin's new album? or doesn't space rock fit into /shugazi/ Either way, I really liked it, my favorite track is at the centre of infinity, but I've only listened to the album once, so that may change.
>>60656417
yea it's good shit anon, good shit, indeed
>>60630325
>>60648219
I just uploaded it.
https://mega.nz/#!3tFxQSjL!46glGU68KYNjjGzrDM7yHGjf_7p3yHSI9u-ADTIF8aI
>>60645223
>>60657325
huh
I want to send a pretty girl shoegaze but I don't listen to it what should I send her?
>>60657971
Start listening to it.
>>60657971
This shit works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZO2psc4En4
>>60657971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMPpMfjnn-I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9-NOIalUYU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XCLWEEvoP4
>>60657971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pijs7z-R8Zo
>>60658419
well that was unpleasant.
>>60658489
THAT'S WHAT LOVE IS
>>60637654
Straight up, if I wanted to listen to MBV, I'd listen to MBV. They lack direction and innovation.
>>60628322
gr8 pic m8
Didn't know this released already. Is it any good?
>>60657971
>>60658126
Seriously, what the fuck? Why are you recommending music you don't listen to and know nothing about to other people? Get a pile of albums, listen to them all twice and then figure out on your own what she would like rather than being some weird middle man (presumably to look cool without any of the substance, right?).
>>60657971
Don't be a fucking poser man
>>60658728
yeah
>>60658489
Don't send girls shoegaze for hipster cred you fuckwig
>>60634023
same. only thing preventing me from loving them
>>60657915
MLP-core
>>60642296
>>60641143
text needs to stand out more, maybe more flags and musical references too.
any recs for more engaging shoegaze?
loveless is good but it's also kind of boring.
looking for more stuff similar to whirr's pipe dreams, ride's nowhere and going blank again or generally any shoegaze that goes more into a progressive or post-hardcore direction like mass of the fermenting dregs' stuff.
>>60645223
those drum tones hnnnnngg
>>60660808
O shiiii didn't even notice
what do you think of this track?
i think it's pretty great. his other stuff is kinda meh though
>>60661940
forgot link lol
https://asaltoalparquezoologico.bandcamp.com/track/sonnen
>>60655441
If you had washed out whispery female vocals over those guitars then you'd have shoegaze imo
>>60661880
I'm offended by the assertion that Loveless is more boring than Whirr/Ride but have you tried Chapterhouse? Breather is a great exciting shoegaze track.
>>60661880
Technicolor Teeth's Teenage Pagans
>>60660867
where would you say this album would fall on this chart, if anywhere
>>60657971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcGWPpoIf4A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HztTBwHYJ-I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jJEyicfgK4
this shit will do it.
I need more soul crushing droney shoegaze like Planning for Burial's Leaving pls help /shugazi/
>>60630311
I would like this more if they didn't steal from MBV. They weren't even subtle about it.
im fucking drunk alone in my shitty 18m2 room
any depressing shoegaze for this feel
>>60668555
http://youtu.be/BZstzwcLKUk
I consider it to be proto-shoegaze.
>>60668988
i can't cry to that
Electro Group?
>>60669384
They can be angry tears.
>>60657299
>>60669709
Cheers mate
>>60633903
Downloaded the EP and your old shit. Will give it a listen and let you know what I think.
>>60630034
Summer Songs by Woody Grant.
https://woodygrant.bandcamp.com/album/summer-songs
Lots of interesting stuff going on, plus the guy(s?) is a 4channer. He might even be in this thread.
>>60657971
Something other than shoegaze. You sending her shoegaze when you don't even listen to it will just make you come off as some idiot trying to come off as someone who's into that cool underground meme rock /mu/ always talks about; either send her something else or acquire a taste for it yourself before you send her anything. That'd be better than being a poser who she'd laugh at with her friends.
>>60633903
>>60671974 here. Just listened to your EP? Wasn't bad, I enjoyed it, I'd be interested in hearing the full album when you're done. Keep it up.
>>60668555
Airs - Adore
>>60672480
Interesting, thanks for the rec.
>>60628322
Pic related really grew on me.
Saw them last month and it was the best show I've been to. Great group of guys.
long time no see /shugazi/
>>60651986
>>60668555
Whirr - Distressor EP
>>60665682
>>60642083
also Nadja - Radiance of Shadows
>>60645652
One of the guys having some personal shit going on here. Shit's been tough f a m s. Will be working on it now.
I think I'm starting to enjoy shoegaze more in a playlist fashion rather than in an album fashion. I don't know why, but I think the change in approach to texture, tone, and mixing on each song adds for a more diverse and exciting listen. Of course I still like to get totally devoured in the atmosphere and tone of an album in its entirety, but with shoegaze specifically, this way of listening is making it more enjoyable for me.
So any kind of albums that instantly pops into your head that kind of does this? I think the best example that I can think of off the top of my head is No Thank You by Coaltar of the Deepers.
>>60645223
that was really good.
>>60673090
thanks for listening man, glad you dug it.
>>60636778
Thank you for sharing this. Never heard of them before but this is a surprisingly good album
>>60674209
I really enjoyed that album as well. Their previous albu7ms didn't quite do it for me because I never really got into "hardcore" but they came up with a pretty damn good shoegaze album and I'm very impressed
>>60633934
Ringo Deathstarr and Tamaryn, literally shitgaze
>>60677536
I have to say, Tamaryn could be my least favorite shoegaze band ever. I find them incredibly boring. Ringo Deathstarr is decent enough for a listen or two.
>>60675458
merriweather post pavilion but it's not shoegaze
>>60675458
Blonder Tongue Audio Baton
>>60676526
I've been a big Title Fight fan for a while now and I like the direction they're going.
They've always mixed a little shugazi into their hardcore albums. Even Floral Green has a few tracks that verge on shoegaze, it's an amazing album.
is Electric Warrior the first proto-shoegaze work?
>>60679411
No.
I love the album but no song on it even comes close to shoegaze or even dreampop/noise rock.
>>60679895
not even considering if you strip away all noisiness from shoegaze, it just sounds like Electric Warrior?
I wonder if Stereolab would be considered Shoegaze.. hmm
>>60680004
It is
>>60632908
Iris
https://iriss.bandcamp.com/album/haunt-me
>>60642083
Cloakroom- Further Out
>>60680004
stereolab > broadcast
just so everyone knows
>>60680224
1. Pram
2. Stereolab
......
9001. Yo la tengo
9002. Broadcast
Pic related doesn't get as much attention as it deserves. Superb early 90's shoegaze/space rock.
>>60681367
Did you hear the ambient album he released this year?
>>60630034
Drop You Luminous Colors is lacking in texture?
That's the most contrarian thing I could possibly fathom
>>60680299
Dude whats to like about Pram? I've given one of their albums a spin but it did nothing for me. I'm a big fan of YLT and Stereolab... is there an album or song of Pram's that i should start with?
>>60681443
who?
>>60681517
The dude who does flying saucer attack
What's the greatest shoegazing duo of all time and why is it The Sky Drops?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D28jIsEk9rw
>>60681606
Well anyway he released it under the Flying Saucer Attack name.
>>60674209
came here to crtl+f hyperview
>>60681651
This is killer, thank you anon
Don't really hear many people talk about Loop on here. I think this tune is better than anything Spacemen 3 ever did
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCAmVhcOYr8
>>60628553
This
>>60682499
Why do they call you Phone
>>60682622
semantics
>>60628322
I fucking love this shit famu, still can't find a link though. May even buy it.
>>60674679
>Will be working on it now
Good. Also, hope you are all good.
>>60675458
share your playlists!
Can I get more songs or albums that sound like the first track on this? https://youtu.be/AJ1eIwLb5UM
Walleater - I/II
>https://mega.nz/#!Fp1QhLzR
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng9Bw_HxHXU
>>60683906
damnit
>https://mega.nz/#!Fp1QhLzR!HPUmkOj8a79MriuyCQNCz8ge21vaJjB91JDOM7SfRZs
>>60683700
this song is crazily stupid. The chord progression is the most overused progression ever. but it's catchy as fuck, and i love it sooo much.
