Sweden’s The Radio Dept have been gradually getting less fuzzy over the years, but this is taken from Pet Grief, the first of their albums to receive proper international release, back in 2006. It’s Personal...

Written around the time of the 2012 Newtown shootings in which 26 people lost their lives at Sandy Hook elementary school, and inspired by those tragic events and the constant rolling news coverage, Another Story...

Lyrically, Polar Bear is based at least in part on a JD Salinger short story called Raise High The Roof Beam, Carpenters. I don't know why it's called Polar Bear, but then neither does Andy...

Greg Dulli and The Afghan Whigs are back with a bang (and a whip) with new track Algiers, and are set to release their first album in 16 years. Do to the Beast will be...

Presumably a song about a giant crossword, 44 Down kicks of with a fabulous stoner intro and a touch of swirl before giving way to Kaitlyn ni Donovan's breathy, delicate vocals.

Neil Halstead might be busy reacquainting himself with the Slowdive back catalogue, but that hasn’t stopped the Slowdive, Mojave 3 and solo performer from getting together with his fellow Back Hearted Brothers Mark Van Hoen...

'Cocteau Twins: beautiful, ethereal, and above all, discoverable. Go! Discover them, and appreciate the beauty.'

Sometimes occupying a mid-point between the noise-rock and dream-pop sides of shoegazing, sometimes just letting the synths take over, sometimes delivering looping, percussive melodies, it was clear from their debut album Alpinisms in 2009 that...

Something joyously raucous from an Irish five-piece who could rename themselves Spector and the Shoegazers. Although about 90% of the lyric is swallowed up, just about enough bounces back off Green Eyed’s various walls of...

It’s been hard to avoid the seemingly ubiquitous Annie Clark over the last few weeks. A hectic promotional schedule has seen her playing fashion shows, ruminating on social media, and drip-feeding tracks from her new...

Apart from a crisp four-count that gets your attention without giving away the furry brutality of what's to come, not much of Only Shallow is clear; obfuscation is everywhere.

We’ve already had teasers in the form of Blue Moon and Waking Light, but now Beck’s new album, Morning Phase, is on NPR just waiting for you to stream it.

Some bands can change their sound as often as their underwear (some, possibly more often) and get nothing but praise for re-invention, for being true to their muse, pioneers. When Peter Buck sat cross-legged, invented...

Noisy Norwegian shoegazing largely emanating from the musical brain of Emil Nikolaisen. Well-known in Norwegian rock circles, not so much outside Norway despite the adulation that rained down on Serena-Maneesh’s self-titled debut album from the...

'Elouise is in the finest tradition of layered shoegazing - synths, vocals, guitars all butt up against one another, tussling for space in the limited recording tracks available, each taking on characteristics of the others.'...

Since the release of the first album under his own name, 2001’s Far Away Trains Passing By, German musician, producer and remixer Ulrich Schnauss has been a key figure in shoegazing’s rebirth, taking the genre...

How does something so sharp glide so smoothly?

Sweetness and Light showcases both the ethereal sound and the deftness of the lyrical barb that was to become a familiar Lush trait

Rae Morris should be huge in 2015. Rae Morris should have been huge in 2014, but as long as it happens some time, all is well with the world.

Spotify’s first recommendation for related music when Luna starts up is both predictable and accurate: Spanish Sahara by Foals. After years and albums of making wholesale changes to their sound, Bombay Bicycle Club seem to...