Tracks - page 32

And so the progression from rough and ready fuzzy shoegazing to all-out summer pop is complete for The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. This is about a handclap away from the twee shelf, but...

It’s back solo work for Gruff Rhys, he of Neon Neon and Super Furry Animals. American Interior sees him in pursuit of alleged ancestor John Evans, on a trail of discovery through America.

Naive Dream is in the familiar breezy Mary Onettes electro/synth-pop style, albeit not quite as overtly 80s-nostalgia-inducing as much of their earlier work, but some ghostly guitar effects and a tiny pitch wobble add a...

This is psychedelic trippy shoegazing at its finest. Can I coin the term disco-gaze? Glitter-gaze? Whatever, it would have given Saturday Night Fever an altogether different vibe, I know that much. Listening, I wish it...

Taken from the 2013 album Stars Are Our Home, (I Don't Mean To) Wonder is a rousing slice of buzzing, percussive shoegazing - a sort of Jesus & Mary Chain meets everyone who's got reverb....

Even if The Sound of Beating Wings doesn't quite sound shoegazey, it certainly feels shoegazey: it goes loud, it goes quiet; it takes its time to unfold; a beautiful melody rides on the top, bass...

Listening to the new single from Ski Lodge for the first time, I didn't immediately think of The Smiths; the connections just sort of crept up on me, leaving me no choice but to accept...

Is it just me, or does the guitar melody to Summerdreamer slip in and out of 'High' by The Cure at one point?

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...

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.

'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...

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.

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?