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53 - Austra - Chin Up Buttercup
Looked at todayβs new releases and saw Austra. Another Moogfest 2011 act I missed. Sometimes listening to this yearβs music, I miss the abundance of this kind of sound.
austra.bandcamp.com/album/chin-u...
52 - Wednesday - Bleeds
When the East Coast crew goes back and forth between kicking in the fuzz and dialing back to alt country mode. I grew up around too much asphalt and concrete to really go for the rural stuff. I like those loud parts, though.
wednesdayband.bandcamp.com/album/bleeds
51 - Higher Power - Thereβs Love In This World If You Want It
Hardcore, but from the UK.
higherpowerleeds.bandcamp.com/album/theres...
How much heat was lost to 7 tropical (or subtropical) storms, a Cat 2, a Cat 4, 2 Cat 5 hurricanes before mid-month and then one more Cat 5 spending the last two weeks of the month in the Atlantic?
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50 - Mogwai - The Bad Fire
Some new Mogwai for a night of space weather, but just because the Sea Power we were listening to driving to a Dark Place to see columns of magenta light is not from this year.
mogwai.bandcamp.com/album/the-ba...
49 - kuyuru - lovescape
Fantastic post rock and shoegaze from Tokyo.
kuyurujpn.bandcamp.com/album/lovesc...
48 - Kaela - Supraliminal
M83 keyboardist making M83-like music.
kaela.bandcamp.com/album/supral...
47 - M83 - A Necessary Escape
M83 score of a Dakar Rally doc. I mean, I reach for M83 when driving on hot, sunny days already.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
46 - Tremours - Fragments
Two people from two other places started making shoegaze in LA during pandemic, hereβs their dreamy debut album from this year.
tremours.bandcamp.com/album/fragme...
45 - Humour - Learning Greek
How about shoegaze crossed with not-quite-post punk/hardcore. And I mean sometimes itβs all the way shoegaze and sometimes basically mclusky. But Scottish.
humour1.bandcamp.com/album/learni...
44 - Deftones - private music
Somehow never had a Deftones phase. But this is really good.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
43 - they are gutting a body of water - LOTTO
East Coast shoegaze with a post hardcore post grunge feel. Kinda near the center of a few East Coast scenes, it would seem.
theyareguttingabodyofwater.bandcamp.com/album/lotto
42 - Pry - Wrapped in Plastic
All sorts of fun shoegaze and beyond sounds. A little more primal than some of the acts this year. Almost expect it to go full kosmische, but itβs like itβs too feral to lock in the motorik.
prynewyork.bandcamp.com/album/wrappe...
41 - Starling - Forgive Me,
Quiet loud quiet. Dreamy to grungy. Acoustic, electric, strings. Never quite stacks drone on drone, but I guess itβs close enough to get a shoegaze tag on bandcamp.
starlingla.bandcamp.com/album/forgiv...
40 - Mclusky - the world is still here and so are we
Somehow, it is. And so they are.
mcluskymclusky.bandcamp.com/album/the-wo...
39 - Waves Crashing - Effection
Itβs like the west coast does grunge-touched shoegaze differently from the east coast.
wavescrashing.bandcamp.com/album/effect...
38 - Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon
In 2025, weβre throwing anything with this much guitar some combo of shoegaze, lo-fi, bedroom, power pop, or all of these and putting them in the same bin. Sounds like Dinosaur, Jr? Alex G with like, way more guitar?
hotlinetnt.bandcamp.com/album/raspbe...
37 - Stereolab - Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Musical tastes can grow over a lifetime if you keep digging. Finally got into this band by the time I finished college like two years ago. Pretty cool. Maybe not 18-minute Jenny Ondioline cool, but pretty cool.
stereolab.bandcamp.com/album/instan...
36 - No Joy - Bugland
In the middle of the grunge guitar and the electronics and the bleeps is something like shoegaze, and it comes together quite nicely.
nojoy.bandcamp.com/album/bugland
35 - Steve Queralt - Swallow
Definitely more Ride.
stevequeralt.bandcamp.com/album/swallow
34 - Andy Bell - Pinball Wanderer
I need to listen to more Ride.
andybell.bandcamp.com/album/pinbal...
33 - Moon in June - Colorless You
Not completely shoegaze throughout, but a few tracks are really fantastic. Track 4 especially.
mooninjunetokyo.bandcamp.com/album/--2
32 - Tunde Adebimpe - Thee Black Boltz
And weβll jump right back because bath time was Tv on the Radio and Tunde time.
tundeadebimpe.bandcamp.com/album/thee-b...
31 - kinoue64 - Nichijou Shometsu
Best way to jump into shoegaze from Japan might be a cannonball off the high dive. Itβs Hatsune Miku vocaloid shoegaze, then. This is one of my favorite things this year.
kinoue64.bandcamp.com/album/--38
30 - Ela Minus - DΓA
Fun electronic music. Sometimes feels a little like oklou or Purity Ring, sometimes more driving.
elaminus.bandcamp.com/album/d-a
29 - Pinkshift - Earthkeeper
Grungy loud pop punk that wants to hold you safe in its arms and keep you safe from harm.
pinkshift.bandcamp.com/album/earthk...
28 - Lights - A6
Just a chill Diwali night, walked the baby up to the temple to see some fireworks. Thought maybe some synth pop from Lights would be just the way to wind down.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
27 - Poliça - Dreams Go
Last night sound engineer was willing. Another night, we caught the end of PoliΓ§aβs set. Brand new PoliΓ§a, perfect for the weather change.
polica.bandcamp.com/album/dreams...
26 - AFI - Silver Bleeds the Black Sun
Sound engineer willing, finally getting the wife her AFI show.
runforcoverrecords.bandcamp.com/album/silver...
25 - Die Spitz - Something to Consume
Austin. Power pop post punk. Not Ditz.
diespitz.bandcamp.com/album/someth...
