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MasterControl posted:As an aside I found this band from the gaze facebook page. It's more in line with my soundscape but they're called twen and the track to listen to is called damsel. They sound like they sat on that song for a long time and had some money behind the production too! Thanks for the rec. They have some of the most amazing vocals I've ever heard, even though they're almost completely incomprehensible. The guitar distortion on the title track knocked me out of my seat. Overall it's like Cocteau Twins and Constants (or Junius) had a baby.
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Possibly not much considering Loveless has been re-pressed to vinyl several times since 2003. Find the version/catalog number you have on discogs. Then search ebay for it (be sure to check "sold items" on the left nav menu [scroll down a ways to find it]).
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Apparently Ride are putting out reissues at some point this year. And 2 of their UK dates on their Nowhere 30th Anniversary Tour are sold out. That's cool.
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Same. I like Winona and one other song (forget which) from that album but the rest didn't catch my ear.
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hatelull posted:Trailer for Creation Stories! A biopic of Alan McGee starring Ewen Bremer (Trainspotting). Into it, especially if they get signoff for a righteous soundtrack. Hm, I think I heard Ride at the end? This looks cool. Good ol' Spud. Awful thumbnail though, thought it was Hannibal Lecter at first.
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hatelull posted:After Hum disbanded in 2000, Talbot formed Centaur. My memory is hazy, but I'm pretty sure it sounded like Hum. Big guitars and drums. If you like their sound, go check that out. Eh, not really. I listened to this last week before I bought a bunch of stuff from Bandcamp. It was on my wishlist but I decided against it after giving it a spin. There's exactly one song that sounds like Hum from their only release 20 years ago (In Streams): The Same Place. The rest is very different. I don't think it's bad per se, it's just not very Hum-like and not what I'm looking for currently. I think it's closer to the folk-indie spectrum. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. I did buy Inlet finally and whoo, that is incredible stuff. And it sounds especially glorious in 2.75 MB/s FLAC. Among the standouts of my latest Bandcamp batch, for sure. Ironically, being a huge Failure fan and a lesser Hum fan, the former's latest (Wild Type Droid) was also among my haul but it didn't grab me right away. Go figure. It'll probably take some more listens for me to warm up to it. That was the case with their last 2 LPs as well. If you like Big Guitars and Drums, check out Nothing and Anakin. The latter has covered two Hum songs (I'd Like Your Hair Long and Stars [which was the final piece they put to record]), but they're more of a super-loud heavily-downtuned Weezer/Rentals/emo crossover with a slight bit of shoegaze. Starting with their 2nd album (Emergency Broadcast System EP), they have the most insane drum recording production I've ever heard. I think composition-wise, I like their debut LP the best, but it doesn't sound as quite off-the-chain as the others. I will definitely 2nd Teenage Wrist. Another standout from my haul that is pure shoegaze - BLUSHING. I bought both of their LPs, one of which was just released a few weeks ago. I hear the spirit of Lush throughout (although it's much heavier than Lush) and it's wonderful. Ofecks fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Mar 8, 2022 |
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funkybottoms posted:seconding Nothing and adding Cloakroom; Matt from Hum even produced one of their records. Whirr and Weed might work, too. I like Whirr too but I'm hesitant to recommend them in SA spaces due to some pretty uncool Twitter history stuff that got them cancelled. That said, the Whirr / Nothing split EP from 2014 is quite possibly my favorite EP ever. All 4 songs are incredible. Deftones are cool, really the only nu-metal-ish band I got into. But if you want big drums, stay away from their otherwise-iconic earlier albums (namely, White Pony and Around The Fur) - sounds like regaae-style tin-can stuff that bands like 311 and Sublime were also using in the 90s. I also have Saturday Night Wrist and they seemed to have improved by then, but I'm not familiar with any of the others they've released.
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I mean, they posted a public apology, claimed they fired the alleged culprit (rumored to be one of their merch people), and it never happened again, so take that as you will. Due to those things, I'm personally ok with supporting them. But I can see where others may not. My Bandcamp haul last week included their entire (self-released) discography since it was only $10 for all of it. Plus the 2 Graveface Records releases (Around and Sway), one of which I bought on CD just because it's available and didn't cost much more than digital-only, while also including digital. I previously only had the aforementioned split EP and a name-your-price (read: $0) copy of Distressor from years ago. Sandy is a lovely song. Also got Nothing's The Great Dismal and Minor Victories on CD. Same deal, only several bucks more with shipping. My CD box is getting full though. I finally got around to ripping the CDs I bought from my local record store last year - 3 2021 remasters of My Bloody Valentine stuff (Isn't Anything, m b v, and the 2-CD Loveless, all EU imports apparently) and the Nevermind 30th Anniversary. My PC's optical drive HATES those Nevermind discs for some reason. It made some really odd noises and seemed to struggle to read them. I had to rip them twice and they're still not perfect (some pops/crackles on the ending tracks). The MBV discs were all fine. 
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:most of their other stuff doesn't sound like this, but this song by Title Fight is my favorite bit of Hum worship Yuss. Someone linked this same video in one of the Discord channels I look at. There's a #music subchannel but nearly everything that people put in there I find to be horrible garbage. This one was a rare exception, it's good. Also, I heard Cave In was a hardcore punk band until they heard Fantastic Planet.
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Cat Hassler posted:If you like HUM/Lush/Slowdive have a listen Maybe a teensy bit of Lush, but the other two, no not really. This reminds me more of some indie-skewing stuff like No Vacation. That's perfectly fine, your sample was a pleasant tune. Just the comparison was off IMO. Something else I noticed on the vid description: quote:Provided to YouTube by CDBaby CDBaby is still around?!? I remember being introduced to it in 2002 when Ken Andrews released his 2nd solo album that way (On - Make Believe). I want to say they let you listen to stuff before buying. Don't remember if it was in full like Bandcamp or not. My former partner poked around on there and bought a handful of stuff, most of which I didn't care for, but among them was one of my favorite EPs ever, that I don't think many people have ever heard of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWlkfKdBTB8 I'm not really sure what to call this style. Sadcore Synth-Pop? The opener, Moscow, has some shoegazey-ness to it. Just a little. In any case, I love all 4 tracks. Band changed their name to Low Vs Diamond but they didn't keep the sound seen here. Oddly, the CD she got didn't have that same cover. It was green and smeary, I think. The only reason I have it in my digital library is because I made 1:1 copies of most of her CDs before she moved out. Ofecks fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Apr 9, 2022 |
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WhiteHowler posted:Now I think they mostly work with indie/small-label bands to get their music on Spotify and Apple Music and presumably take a cut from that. I see. YouTube as well, apparently. I can't imagine there being much money in that pursuit, considering how little streaming platforms pay out to anyone except the current FOMO rap artists and whatnot.
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Courtesy of the YouTube suggestion Algorithm, possibly because I've recently seen nearly everything from Blushing on there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGL-sa4m7-Y Wow. If anyone posted them here before, I must've missed it.
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Data moshing, done "professionally". That was one of the coolest music videos I've ever seen. Maybe do not (or definitely do) watch after taking LSD.
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uber_stoat posted:i love guitar porn. Hell yeah. During that free San Fran show they played in '92, one of the several cameras filming it showed her pedals, and it was like a row of skittles. I think Emma took the opposite approach:  Fancy rackmount stuff!
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Janitor Ludwich IV posted:there's a new album by the dead rabbits that has some nice tracks on it The vocalist reminds me of: - Perry Farrell - Eugene Goreshter (Autolux) - Richard Ashcroft (a little bit) Would definitely recommend going through this thread. I've found a bunch of stuff I like here.
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uber_stoat posted:https://twitter.com/eli_enis/status/1605966280623673344?s=20&t=5cvEoRPSLLDxOaLc22gP_w Saw this on /r/shoegaze yesterday. I'm listening to all the playlists but I haven't liked much so far. Knifeplay is kinda cool. e: Kraus and Bedlocked are alright, although I'm not sure if the latter could be considered shoegaze. It reminds me a little bit of the guitar-based alt-pop of the 90s. e2: ok, their song Sprawl is kinda shoegazey ROFLBOT posted:From Sweden Wishlisted! Ofecks fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Dec 23, 2022 |
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Rageaholic posted:Happy 10th birthday, m b v! I like Who Sees You and If I Am (tracks #3 & 5). New You (6) doesn't really sound like MBV, there's none of their trademark dissonance. Nothing Is (8) kinda reminds me of NIИ, like something from one of the remix albums. It's also got a pretty quiet mix/mastering, similar to Loveless. I bought the Domino Records CD reissue import a couple years ago. An interesting album, for sure.
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Bandcamp Friday was last week. It kinda snuck up on me and a project I've been following since, like, a year ago, finally released their LP, so I knew it was time for a new batch. However, my wishlist is such that I've forgotten what the things on it sound like, so I basically spent all day of the event listening to my wishlist and making a BUY NOW list. I literally ran out of time and checked out 2 hours before BCF was over; it was past midnight and I needed sleep. Pickups (Artist - Album): All Under Heaven - Collider Alvvays - Blue Rev (the weirdo of the bunch: pretty pop-y indie rock, although with a shoegaze twist, which is what interests me about this album) Bellweather Day Aches - Fever Dreams Distressor - Momentary (the project I've been tracking since last year, I loved the singles but I usually don't buy singles) Life On Venus - Encounters (my CC declined this one at first, maybe because the band is Russian?) Pure Hex - Still Dark (this one was the best, I thought, of the handful of albums I filed under "maybe" as I listened to my wishlist before making purchases) Ride - Going Blank Again (yes, Ride is on BC now!) Slow Crush - Aurora [trauma ray] (I listened to their whole discog and this one was the best) And an honorable mention to a very cool album that I ended up genre-ing as Post-rock, but could go either way, really: Holy Fawn - Death Spells Having finally listened to everything and done all the clerical work associated with updating a digital library (this took a few days), I'd say the standouts so far: Bellweather (incredibly gnarly fuzz/distortion with gorgeous vocal harmonies) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pisPd5yzCd8 Distressor (worth the wait, it is great, although they gave Bandcamp lower-quality FLACs, booooo) I don't have enough listens under my belt yet to decide on a good example to link, but this was one of the lead-in singles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfKoN1gh2T8
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ROFLBOT posted:In the spirit of those dense, driving album openers from Nowhere, Going Blank Again, Raise, etc Yeah that's a great tune. Incredible bass slides. Airiel's always had really cool vocal harmonies. Shoutout to Larry Fine on drums  I also like "Inside Out" and "You Sweet Talker" on that same album. The latter starts off as a bog-standard, major-key pop ballad, but the chorus quickly turns it on its head.
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Ofecks posted:Distressor (worth the wait, it is great, although they gave Bandcamp lower-quality FLACs, booooo) Okay, so having listenened to this album several times now, I have regretfully discovered that I hate the mix job. The rhythm guitar is hard-panned left, and the lead is hard-panned right. One in each ear, since I only listen with headphones. Why would they choose to do it this way? I love everything else about the songs, but the mix loving ruined it. I'm surprised I didn't catch this when I listened to the singles on Bandcamp, or my first listen of the album proper. Maybe it would sound better in a bluetooth speaker or something. Like, I know this sort of thing is pretty common in all kinds of rock music, to simulate a "live" feel of the band members on a stage or whatever, but this album takes it to an extreme, as if the amps are 100 ft or more away from each other. I've been to a few shows and live music does not sound like that. At least the bass, drums, and vocals are dead-center. It's just woefully disconnecting and my brain has trouble parsing it all out. I learned recently that I'm on the Autism Spectrum, maybe that's part of it. The Trauma Ray EP I bought does something similar, but it doesn't seem quite as bad. I'm tempted to load the album in Audacity to just squish all the tracks into some kind of double-mono output. It would destroy any other stereo effects present but I think I'd enjoy it like that. I just have little tolerance for instruments confined to a single ear.
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chaibat posted:So my question, what does mono sound like in headphones with 2 good ears? Is it somehow flatter or just less satisfying overall? I don't think it's flat, per se. Aside from a few minor tidbits here and there (like the bridge in Breed by Nirvana), wild stereo effects weren't very common in alternative music up through the 90s. So you wouldn't miss much with mono in each ear. In other words, I think most of the stuff I listen to would still sound pretty "normal" that way. Also, I primarily play retro video games, and NES/Famicom does not output stereo audio. On my PC via software emulation, with headphones, it sounds perfectly fine with the sound doubled to each ear. If I do end up undertaking the task of mono-izing Distressor's album, I'll try to remember to respond here to report the difference. I don't feel like messing with it at the moment.
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Rageaholic posted:In a move I didn't see coming, the new Foo Fighters single sounds shoegaze/dream pop influenced. Dave Grohl duets with his daughter Violet and the results are fantastic. I wish they'd do this kind of thing more often. Cool. I guess there's a new album out soon. Has anyone heard it in its entirety yet? I wonder if the rest of it sounds like this. You know, I think one of the reasons why I like FF's ST debut so much is because it has ever-so-slight hints of shoegaze throughout. Especially on tracks like Floaty, X-Static, Exhausted, and maybe Alone + Easy Target. Even on the more raging, upbeat songs, the guitar sound is really good, although I'm still not sure what to make of Big Me, that one is quite the oddball. Anyway, I like maybe half the tracks from the follow-up (tCatS) but nothing else from them since then. And yes, I've listened to Wasting Light. I recall it was hyped up as a "return to the early days" but I disagreed and did not find it pleasing to my ears.
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RestingB1tchFace posted:What would you guys consider Teenage Wrist? Alt Rock. Maybe "90's-style Alt Rock"? I really hate using the term "grunge" for anything except actual stuff from that period. "Post-grunge" maybe? I dunno, really. Teenage Wrist's earlier stuff (up through Chrome Neon Jesus) has some slight shoegazey tinges to it, but once Kamtin left the band, they went more straight-forward. There isn't much from Earth Is A Black Hole that catches my ear and thus, I'm not interested in the forthcoming follow-up, based on what I've heard so far (it's more of the same).
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Eight Is Legend posted:Well, if you miss the Kamtin era of the band, you will probably dig his new project Heavenward — debut album came out Friday! I dig it indeed. Wishlisted! Thanks for the links.
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Major Operation posted:I saw a post about this Australian dream pop/shoegaze band, Futureheaven, somewhere a few weeks ago. I think the music has an early/mid 90s vibe, and the video is a decent attempt at replicating something you might have seen in that era as well. I love it, thank you. Added EP to my wishlist.
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I'll be buying digital, but those were definitely albums I wanted remasters of. Split, and especially Spooky are rather low-volume affairs. Gala is the worst of them all. Wonder why they're not remastering that one. e: probably a lot more work remastering a compilation, I imagine. They might not have all the master tapes for the stuff that's on it. Ofecks fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Jul 13, 2023 |
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ROFLBOT posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47H3V2twKjk Very good, thanks for the rec. There's an EP but she's only got one track on Bandcamp, unfortunately. The Live Basement playlist on her YT channel is great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySOgWV0Xjh8
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chaibat posted:Kind of a weird question: Like 15 years ago, I suddenly lost the hearing completely in one ear (acoustic neuroma tumor). One thing I really miss is stereo sound. I use mono audio to at least hear both channels with one ear. So my question, what does mono sound like in headphones with 2 good ears? Is it somehow flatter or just less satisfying overall? Ofecks posted:If I do end up undertaking the task of mono-izing Distressor's album, I'll try to remember to respond here to report the difference. I don't feel like messing with it at the moment. I finally sat down to do this. Installed Audacity, and mechanically, the process was easy. It's been a long time since I've used this app, and the last time I did, I had to download extra plug-ins for format support. No more of that, looks like everything is built-in now. It went something like this:
This results in a mono version of the song, mirrored to both L/R channels. So fake stereo, kinda-sorta. All instruments are front and center. Unfortunately, the results are not great. I'm not even sure I'd call them "good". Audacity's stereo-to-mono mixer algorithm seems to reduce the quality significantly. Either that, or it's just computer science, dealing with digital audio. To demonstrate what I mean, take a look at this screenshot:  Top: the mirrored mono mix. Bottom: the original. There is a very clear lack of depth in the mono mix. It's more of a squish than a mix, really. If Audacity is at fault here, my best guess is that it seems like it automatically tries to avoid peaking, and/or applies a volume-normalizing routine based on the lowest common threshold. Something like that. There were no options in preferences to adjust that process, nor anything in the CFG file that was obvious. I tried changing the Sample Rate Converter to "Best Quality" (it defaults to medium), but that had no effect. Again, I don't know if that's just the way it is, or if Audacity sucks at it. Either way, this is not an adequate solution for this kind of music. I'll keep these altered versions (I also "squished" Trauma Ray's debut EP) in my digital library for now, but I'll also keep an eye out for a different way to do this. One thing I thought of was forcing my audio output in Windows (or my USB headset) to mono, but I could not find anywhere in the settings to do that.
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chaibat posted:If you feel like it, look for ‘ease of access’ in Windows. I think there’s an option to enable mono audio under ‘hearing’ Woa, so there is! Thank you! This is certainly a lot easier than the Audacity process. Unfortunately, much like the former, this way also noticeably impacts the fidelity in a negative way. It sounds identical to the "squished" version of the album I made. I guess that's just the way it is. Computer science, etc. The real solution here is for bands to not loving hard-pan individual instruments on their records and mix them like normal loving music. Now to figure out if there's a similar mono audio option for Android. I have my entire music library on my phone (cheaper ones still have microSD slots and analog headphone jacks!), so that's my portable way of listening to tunes.
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Didn't even have to watch the vid, the thumbnail was enough. Found the Accessibility menu on mine and a mono option is indeed in there. Thanks!
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ROFLBOT posted:Im pretty late to the party here but shoutouts to everyone ITT who was on to the last Hum album a couple of years ago Yeah this record was a hell of a surprise. No one had any idea they were working on it until it dropped. Hum could've been considered one of the mildly-shoegaze-adjacent bands of the 90's but they went full tilt on this one. Agreed Desert Rambler is an absolute masterpiece. The whole album is perfectly mixed, too. The FLACs from Bandcamp sound amazing. Shame about their drummer. RIP. Makes me wonder if we'll ever get anything from them again. Speaking of their drummer, I love this vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jQzNtQhraQ He completely destroys his kit.
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Glare is pretty cool. Surprised to see they got a spot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcz3WwaMIX0
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Sometimes I would wonder if Emma still played music, as the last I heard she was a full-time working single mom, raising a kid. I guess the answer is a resounding "yes"!
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