Tracks - page 33

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...

Practically a one-man operation, Wild Nothing was formed by Jack Tatum in 2009, gaining early attention through a cover of Kate Bush’s Cloudbursting.

Anna Calvi’s new single Piece by Piece arrives broken and fractured, with occasional sputtering and discordant guitar explosions, but is still shot through with moments of calm beauty, such as Calvi’s work high on the...

They’ve covered Slowdive, and there’s more than a hint of classic Ride (who they’ve also covered) in Alex White’s vocals, harmonies and drums, so there’s no denying Highspire’s shoegazing influence and pedigree; it’s something they’re...

Though lacking the sinister underpinnings of the beautiful Darkest Place, Her Ghost is more evidence of their talent for harnessing simple truth into devastatingly subtle electronic melody.

It’s been a while since we heard any new Doves material (and, before this weekend, a while since I’d listened to any old Doves material); nearly five years have passed since Kingdom of Rust was...

Pretty, and pretty standard melodic shoegazing-influenced fare from Chicago’s Airiel, with a strong, punchy bass line punctuating an always there wall of guitar in the back of the mix, with the occasional harmonic pop.

‘Multiply’ starts out as fairly conventionally indie rock, with slightly fuzzy guitars, but gradually it starts to circle menacingly, rising higher with every loop on the currents of increasingly distorted vocals. Even if it might...

Suzanne is a glimpse of Moose's melodic future, buried under six feet of dirt, seen through a dirty windowpane

Last year’s Unkinder hinted that the first Thumpers album could be a riotous thumping (sorry; had to do it) bundle of summer joy, and Galore does nothing to dissuade me of that. Heavy beats and...

Formed in the mid 90s, just as shoegazing was busy burning itself into obsolescence, Blonde Redhead spent their first decade and a bit not looking at all likely to revive its fortunes, and not sounding...

Putin protest #2, this time a Russian Kiss from Norway's wonderful but underappreciated Annie.

In the advent of the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, please find attached a song written for you, your mother, your father, and your gay brothers and sisters in Russia.

In many respects acting as a bridge between indie-pop and shoegazing, with more than a flirtatious glance in dream-pop’s direction, Pale Saints could jangle, and they could rock it out a bit, but they could...

'Bis have clearly been paying attention during their time off, and have sagely determined that rolling synths and disco beats are the future, the chorus to Rulers and the States features more yeah-yeah, a nifty...

Waking Light comes in various shades, all of them mellow; layer upon layer of distant strings, synths, and echoed vocals rise and fall, before giving way to the year's first truly great outro.

Currently on indefinite hiatus, Asobi Seksu released four albums of shoegazing-influenced dream pop, gaining not a great deal of chart success, but repeated film and tv spots, thanks in no small part to vocalist Yuki...

By the time Chapterhouse released their second and final album Blood Music in 1993, the band was drifting ever further away from their defining shoegazing moments, towards a clean-sounding almost electro-dance style.