SLOWDIVE - SLOWDIVE The
shoegazer's first album since Pygmalion in 1995 is manna for the soul.
The spacy "Gemini'' reflects the early 1970s movie soundtracks that Howard claimed as an influence, "This Feeling'' echoes Curtis Mayfield, "
Shoegazer'' is a driving rocker that belies its reflective title, and the woozy "Dunes'' feels like a Southern summer day.
The following 2m 4f Chase is a cracker and I take a chance on David Pipe's
Shoegazer (3.10) coming back from a season-long absence.
HEREFORD: 2.20
Shoegazer, 2.50 Jolibob, 3.20 Newton Tonic, 3.50 Cebonne, 4.20 Huckleberry, 4.50 Marodima.
TWO NIGHTS BEFORE I met these guys, I went to see the noisy
shoegazer band Weekend play a show and overheard two friends talking in the crowd: "Have you heard the Radio Dept?
It's dreamy
shoegazer pop to leave you swooning with the highlight being Dream About Me.
Hush is simultaneously subtle and brash, and the album stands out as an example of technically innovative pop music by a duo who--despite backhanded comparisons to any number of "
shoegazer" bands--actually seems to be enjoying and reveling in their creative process.
(3) Generos como el "noise rock", "indie pop", "indietronica", "post punk", "post rock" y "
shoegazer" son tan solo una parte del amplisimo paraguas de "lo indie".
There's a sense of gentle melodicism throughout Close to Paradise which infuses everything from West Coast harmonies and folk-pop strumming to
shoegazer atmospherics and the building grandeur of Bends era Radiohead, while on The Great Escape Watson sits alone at his piano - the circling melody forms the basis of an impeccable lullaby.
The funereal tone persisted with Untitled (Grey Drain), 2004, a pointedly drab string of colorless plastic banners that recalls Fiona Banner's Black Bunting, 2001 and
Shoegazer (Bonus Version), 2004, which combines a pencil drawing of a limp indie rocker with an ankle-height mirror seemingly lifted from a footwear store, a blowup of the cover of Michael Jackson's Off the Wall, in which the wayward musician's white socks glow with an otherworldly light, and an inverted image of Mussolini and his girlfriend hanging by their ankles.
With a sound that spans late 80s/early 90s
shoegazer, Night Flowers, slick, cheery, indie guitar brand is pure and simply smile-aholic medicine.
Moreover, the band has always managed to maintain an edge, even when they drift into spacey
shoegazer territory: There's always a rock undercurrent to the songs that helps give the songs shape and gives the listener something solid to grasp.