Review: Black Cloud EP
If it seems like every other review we’ve done lately covers an act from Winnipeg, you’re definitely tracking right. With acts like Living Hour and Vampires pumping out great lo-fi sounds inspired by some of …
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Review: Need & Necessity — So Listen
This article originally appeared at the now defunct blog over at TheHundred. You can read all of Alibi Pierce’s electronic music news coverage right here, or at his TheHundred author page (while it’s still up). …
Review: Malka — The Constant State
For a brief moment in the early 1990s it looked like the 1960s were making a huge comeback. The explosion of “alternative” culture gave rise to bands heavily influenced by the sounds of the 60s, …
Review: Vampires — Every Kind of Light
After our write-up of Living Hour, another indie act out of Winnipeg caught our attention. Vampires consists of the duo David Dobbs and Matthew Powers playing guitar and drums (respectively); both share credit for vocals. …
Review: Moth Effect — Crocodilians
Imagine this: After several light-years of intergalactic space travel, your’re awakened from a cryogenic slumber by your shipboard computer alerting you that you will soon approach the planet Crocodilia–a land you have made it your …
Book Review: Childhood Deployed: Remaking Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone
Childhood Deployed: Remaking Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone, examines the difficult reintegration of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone’s devastating civil war lasted from 1991-2002, leaving more than 50,000 dead and over two …
Review: Wozniak — Five Star (in violet remix)
Scotland’s Wozniak is one of those bands that thrives in the permanent fog that has come to envelope the difficult-to-describe world of atmospheric rock: dreampop, post-rock, shoegaze, math-rock, it’s hard to differentiate sometimes. These guys …
Write-up: Living Hour (formerly, The Hours)
Living Hour (formerly The Hours) makes psychedelic dreampop and broadcasts it to the world from Winnipeg, Manitoba. While its sound is often tagged on its Bandcamp page as #shoegaze, I’d say the former description is …
Review: Revolution — The Shoegaze Revival
This review has been updated to reflect the current label selling this album. Not sure exactly what happened, but there you have it. 7/12/2016 If you’re like me, you sometimes get that itch that can …
Preview Thud’s New Single: Venture
Back in October we reviewed Hong Kong shoegaze act Thud’s premiere single, Lime, calling it “a little dreampop gem.” And now they’re out with a new single for Border Series entitled Venture that is even …
Review: Thud — Lime
We’ve written a bit about the shoegaze renaissance that has been bubbling in the indie rock scene for the last decade. While the whole “nugaze” thing really kicked off in the early 2000s, there have …
whirr: a reflection on shoegaze
[embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOYVjIKeSyA[/embedyt] the short: to be clear sway is whirr‘s best album to date. at least my favorite. it’s introspective it’s reflective. it’s self-loathing and obsessed (with noise distortion and reverb as sound… but-no-one-will-listen-to-us-play-one-chord-for-a-half-hour-so-we-better-write-songs obsessed). this …
Review: Treasure Fingers at Bar Standard
A version of this article previously appeared at thehundred.co. Full disclosure: I also blog for those guys. Treasure fingers is a prolific producer, creating some of the more memorable dance hits of the last few …
Review: HOME Denver Independence Day Party
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Review: mobdividual
As this cough will choke me, I implore you to have my body opened, so that I may not be buried alive. These are said to be among composer Frédéric Chopin’s final written words in …
Dispensary Review: B*Good
I’d been pretty happy at my current dispensary. The flowers are great quality, and–as a member–I get $25 eighths every weekend. Actually, stopping in is always one of the highlights of my week; the staff …
Review: Digitalism at Club Vinyl
When we reviewed Option4’s remix of Elizabeth Rose’s The Good Life, we mentioned that Option4–aka–Brennen Bryarly’s Denver collective, The Hundred, was about to launch a new Saturday night house party at Denver’s renowned and neglected …
This Week in Shoegaze
This is the feature in which we attempt to follow the Drone Subterranean Wall of Sound and Whispered Vocals. When last we wrote this segment, we mentioned the rumors of a Slowdive reunion, long whispered …
#sunbather
two different friends on a social media website posted about this particular band.. i had seen the name around but knowing the tastes of these two, i figured id scope it out. deafheaven – sunbather hitting play …