Tag Archives: shoegaze

Single Release: 7×3 {Starlight Girls}

Posted on June 10, 2013 by | Leave a comment

904431_553973504633672_157567466_o’7×3′ by Starlight Girls   (Brooklyn, NY)

 
 

Today it is a pleasure to feature both a stream and video for the latest single from Brooklyn trip-pop outfit Starlight Girls called ‘7×3‘. The track is fuzzy from the get-go and immediately draws in the listener with a dark, repetitive bass line that sets the tone for the eerily beautiful vocals that sit atop this track. The production is immaculate and the odd music video that goes along with the release is every bit appropriate, which is probably why Stereogum decided to premiere it alongside a great streaming premiere via SPIN. White girl Badu swagger meets Brazilian Girls, this is a truly sexy New York group coming up in the ranks. @thinknotsleep

 
 

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Drone Ranger (Best New Music)

Posted on May 29, 2013 by | 1 Comment

a0683656538_2Drone Ranger by Drone Ranger   (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

 
 

Gentle and seductive, smoke filled gloom room, david lynch “fire walk with me”, veiled horror, gripping drive. obvious one, floyd of course. this started as a brainstorm, maybe writing this way is more true. Jesus, a gasp, floating with ‘Shadow and Ghost’ (it’s an expression, isn’t it). I said this once already but thank science for 4 tracks, tascam tascam tascam. ‘Gameboy Idiot’, You Are Perfect, there isn’t a soul in the modern music world who wouldn’t swoon to this suped up shoegaze, what the strokes used to be, masterpiece. Please come re-record the album, record a single, anything, We will have all sorts of boisterous fun at Dingus Records Studios @ Freecandy making history with what is already a tantalizingly fulfilling, subtly inventive, and truly virtuous DIY feat. @dingusrecords

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Posted in A: Spinrad, C: Best New Music, C: Free Music, T: LP/EP

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Single Release: The Butterfly Girl {The Balcony Stars}

Posted on May 21, 2013 by | Leave a comment

a4127662570_10‘The Butterfly Girl’ by The Balcony Stars   (Liverpool, England)

 

This is something beautifully alluring about The Balcony Stars’ single, ‘The Butterfly Girl‘. The name alone leaves you with a little sense of wonder and the visual aspect, the cover, makes your imagination run even more wild. Shoegazy rock and roll is what we have here and its laced with some late night starlight and early morning haze. It’s a song you lay in bed listening to until the moment you have to force yourself to star your day and its there for you when you need to unwind. The Balcony Stars have something special on their hands, something very special. @LeahLovecat

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Surrender

Posted on May 5, 2013 by | Leave a comment

4140933531-1Surrender by Lockets   (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

 
 

‘Lockets‘ is a track made from beguiling beauty and wonder. Synthy bedroom pop is the key factor here. As you set your eyes upon the album art, stare into the purples and oranges that make up the background, I honestly believe that it’s the music in physical form. Its kind of strange how a picture can sum up 3 minutes and 47 seconds of sound but, here you have it. This is a late night track, please play at dusk and add it to your playlist immediately. [Free Download] @LeahLovecat

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Spanish Republican Soldiers In French Retirement Homes

Posted on May 1, 2013 by | Leave a comment

4121941925-1Spanish Republican Soldiers In French Retirement Homes by The Suicide of Western Culture   (Barcelona)

 
 

Breathy, distant choir vocal samples; steam weezing out of under-regulated smoke stacks of industrial Europe; glitches of sound from televisions in broken store front windows; The Suicide of Western Culture. It is often times hard to speculate what is in a name, but with the ambient, industrial soundscapes created by TSOWC, this is a perfect score to an Orwellian sci-fi film. Politically apocalyptic in both name and song titles, this is a deep dive to take into electronic music on a weekday morning but I’m glad I did. Digital toms and thick synthesizers march and pump like a meltdown of society and personal anxiety, a ride we fear to take but are quick to welcome in the form of visionary art. @thinknotsleep

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Ignoring My Friends

Posted on April 9, 2013 by | Leave a comment

artworks-000034362605-v2euri-t500x500Ignoring My Friends by Pretty City   (Melbourne, Australia)

 
 

Sometimes when a band continues to push out D.I.Y anthems as well as Pretty City, we here at Dingus like to give credit where it is due and feature them again. Self-declared indie shoegrunge, we received a single called ‘Ignoring My Friends’ via Facebook comment (that’s SO indie) and had to give some love back. Supposedly recorded to an iPhone with magazine thumps for a beat, I encourage you to put on this raspy, cigarette-lunged, youthful, whispery-pop song and bob your head all along the way. Thanks for passing this over seas guys! @thinknotsleep

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Diamond Mind

Posted on April 2, 2013 by | Leave a comment

2548830793-1Diamond Mind by Architecture   (Chicago, Illinois) *

 

I am in love with this. Architecture’s ‘Diamond Mind‘ is romance wrapped in a star filled daydream. The Chicago based two piece have written beautiful songs sure to set your heart on fire and make your mind wander. Man, Leah, if you love it so much why don’t you marry it? @LeahLovecat

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Adore

Posted on March 29, 2013 by | Leave a comment

Adore by Airs   (San Francisco)

 

In Adore, Airs blends metal and shoegaze into a lurid perfection. Their drone noise at times recalls a more crystalline version an early My Bloody Valentine. Yet the slight shredding of guitars and the ache in the lead singers voice provide more angst than passion. They explore sounds that range from chaotic thrash to pure blissful noise. Listen closely enough and I swear you can hear hints of black metal. This album definitely does not fall into the stereotypes of shoegaze. It exceeds the genre itself. [Free Download] @eCarlblom

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Dark Days

Posted on March 28, 2013 by | Leave a comment

3409486828-1Dark Days by Public Transport   (Brooksville, ME)

 
 

Public Transport is the performing moniker for electronic musician Duncan Bailey who resides currently in some random location in Maine. While streaming this eerie, instrumental track ‘Dark Days’, I imagine a fictional scenario (because I know nothing about this dude) of Duncan producing his ambient, dream-pop songs loudly in his bedroom while his 14 year old sister dances like a member of The Breakfast Club on the other side of the wall. The track is dense with droning keyboard sounds and effects with a contagious drum beat all throughout. Music supervisors should be hip to this and be sure to pitch it for a sync license in the next Bret Easton Ellis movie. @thinknotsleep

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Teenage Red

Posted on March 1, 2013 by | Leave a comment

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Teenage Red by Jane Woodman   (San Francisco, California)

 

I am truly honored and excited to feature Jane Woodman on Dingus. As someone who has planted her feet firmly in DIY, Ms. Woodman brings us post-punk daydreams that will put you in a romantic haze at 12 in the afternoon. Teenage Red is the soundtrack provided, 12 tracks to help you float through this dark vision. As I look more and more into it, I’m becoming intrigued by what Jane Woodman has to offer. She’s a musician, a multimedia artist, she’s the embodiment of the DIY spirit and I couldn’t be more excited to type her name into this post. @LeahLovecat

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