Tag Archives: shoegaze

The Bilinda Butchers – Careless Teens

ImageImageImageImageAww. This video for ‘Careless Teens’ by The Bilinda Butchers is really priddy and makes me yearn for a lazy sunny day where I can just do whatever I feel like. I discovered this band a couple of months ago when I first heard ‘The Lovers’ Suicide’, which also made me think of the weather. It was March and still snowing a lot in London, so it felt strangely appropriate to be listening to the lines: “Like a flower can’t bloom in the snow / We can’t hide, we can’t grow!”

Don’t you think that this video is almost like a lookbook for some kind of hipster fashion brand, like Wildfox or Cheap Monday, or something? When I saw it, I felt that it evoked a real girly ‘Tumblr’ aesthetic. Hopefully the maker of the video, Vanesa Capitaine, won’t be offended by that description – she does seem to use Tumblr a fair bit!

The Raveonettes for FAULT

Raveonettes James D KellyA while ago, I interviewed Sune from The Raveonettes for FAULT Magazine, ahead of their latest album release, ‘Observator’. The above photography is by James D. Kelly, you can read an excerpt from the interview below…The Raveonettes Fault MagazineThat’s all I can give you at the moment! You can read the whole interview in the latest issue of FAULT, which is out now. It’s available to buy at Books Magazines etc, along with FAULT back issues and merchandise, too.

Carousels – Over Me

Carousels bandHere is my favourite song off the ‘Pop’ EP from Cambridge-based shoegazers, Carousels. This isn’t the official video, but someone on Youtube has combined ‘Over Me’ with some nice clips of everyone’s favourite narcoleptic – River Phoneix’s character in ‘My Own Private Idaho’! Drink it in with your eyes and ears…

My Bloody Valentine Tickets!

All booked for March 12th at Hammersmith Apollo! I’m excited, to say the least. Now then…when the hell are The Jesus & Mary Chain finally going to do a UK tour again?

Veronica Falls – Teenage

Veronica Falls "Teenage" videoNice little tune from Veronica Falls – reminds me of the likes of The Shop Assistants, The Vaselines and Broadcast.

Tame Impala – Elephant

I love this new single by Tame Impala. Although they have still retained their mellow sound, they have added a foot-stomping beat to it and some trippy disco synths. The finished result, titled ‘Elephant’ is incredible! The video, which was created by artist Yoshi Sodeoka, possesses all the attributes that I’ve now come to expect from this genre of music – chromatic effects, kaleidoscopic visuals and vivid colours. This neo-psychedelic aesthetic is beginning to look sort of clichéd and predictable, but I still like it, so I’m not going to whine about the fact that bands are kind of doing it to death.

I Wanna Go Where Nobody Knows…

Loving the new single from Splashh! This band can do no wrong, in my opinion.

The Raveonettes

I’m interviewing The Raveonettes in a couple of hours for FAULT Magazine – pretty exciting! But, as luck would have it, I also have a horrible cold and I’m contacting them via Skype, so I’l be rasping my questions over to Sune and Sharin with a little difficulty. Hopefully they won’t think I’m too much of a weirdo. I’ll mostly be asking about their upcoming album, ‘Observator’, which is due for release in just under two weeks, on Vice Records. Below, you can watch the video for their latest single, ‘She Owns The Streets’.

TOY – Debut Album Trailer

TOY’s eponymous album comes out on Heavenly Recordings in just under a month. They’ve put together this album preview, complete with some appropriately psychedelic visuals.

The album release date is September 10th, and you can now listen to a new full length song on Soundcloud, called ‘Dead & Gone‘.