Sh!tgaze

siamesedream · 07-03-2009, 01:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Engine

In a (sort of depressing) way I was excited when I realized that a revival of early 90s indie rock/shoegaze was going on.
But then I didn't like any of the bands I heard do it. Even bands that may be otherwise good can't seem to do it right. I'm going to go full-on old-guy and say that they don't appear to understand the music that they are copying.

There are actually alot of modern bands doing a great job of a shoegaze revival of sorts - Fleeting Joys, 93MillionMilesFromTheSun, Amusement Parks on Fire, Asobi Seksu, etc. Even bands like Japandroids and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart seem to have incorporated some of that fuzzy guitar shoegaze influence in their music

It's all about separating the good from the crap, The "nu-gaze" or "****gaze" tags are stupid, don't pay attention to that stuff - there are some damn good bands who are wearing their Loveless and Nowhere influences on their sleeves

if you're huge into shoegaze like I am, I'd recommend checking out the shoegaze.co.uk forums - thats where I found out about a lot of these bands

x Cheez iT · 09-06-2009, 10:59 PM

Has anyone heard The Pains of Being Pure At Heart? I remember hearing their EP last year, and then they released their debut album this year, which I thought was pretty good. As far as these bands like Wavves, No Age... They really aren't doing it for me either...

Malicious Wakizashi · 09-16-2009, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by keith!

I actually really enjoy Wavves and No Age.
but what a stupid name ****gaze is.

Agreed. Haven't seen Times live, though I imagine it would be quite energetic, like seeing Titus Andronicus live.

henry · 09-27-2009, 05:22 PM

vivian girls' s/t album is worth checking out though, seriously.

~~Farfisa~~ · 09-28-2009, 12:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Zero1986

I completely condemn this 'sh!tgaze' tag and the person who coined it. Now that shoegaze is in vogue we have every sort of shoegaze-associated genre i.e. metalgaze (Nadja) and of course nu-gaze. I really like Wavves and Eat Skull but i would just class them as lo-fi indie

Kevin De Broux of Pink Reason

~~CAPTAIN CAVEMAN~~ · 09-28-2009, 01:15 AM

wavves blows

x Cheez iT · 09-30-2009, 04:46 AM

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Originally Posted by henry

vivian girls' s/t album is worth checking out though, seriously.

I second that. There new album that was just release is just meh, but their self titled one is a definite listen.

bardonodude · 10-01-2009, 06:59 AM

haha ****gaze sounds like a cool label, that would be an even cooler band name.

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