Zoon: Happy School Thought

Zoon is quite a charming shoegaze outfit. Their latest is called Happy School Thought and it's filled with transplendant wonder. The power and sonic awe is overwhelming.

Opening track...

Swim Deep: Hum

The cascading sonic power of love is seen with great clarity on Swim Deep's latest called Hum. Dream Pop and Shoe Gaze lovers will be filled with joy and connection with this one. It's a mighty fine cosmic journey, folks!

Opening track...

American Football: American Football (LP IV) (Album of the Week)

American Football. What a band. Just all levels of majestic. Their latest is their fourth album hence it's name, LP IV. The sweeping waves of cosmic joy are overwhelming. The Urbana, IL lads have really brought new meaning to emo and dream pop. 

Opening track...

The next track brings us to a new level of shoegaze

Later we have this absolute gem...

My dreamy pop head is saturated!

Softcult: When A Flower Doesn't Grow

The pride of Kitchener, Ontario has dropped their first full length shoegaze extravaganza and I am loving it. Softcult has a very promising future indeed! 

One of my faves...

Winter: Adult Romantix

The very lovely and extremely talented shoegaze outfit, Winter, are back with wonderful record called Adult Romantix. It's easily their most intimate and my fave so far!

Opening track...

Lightheaded: Thinking, Dreaming. Scheming!

The title of the latest effort from Lightheaded is something we all do. And we do it with the same exclamation mark! Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming is baroque pop at its finest. Grab a romantic partner and listen!!

Opening track...

My Raining Stars: Momentum

My Morning Stars have always been a beloved outfit on the dream pop/shoegaze circuit. Their latest is called Momentum and it just shimmers.The crisp wonder of the cosmic universe...

Drop Nineteens: 1991

Boston's own Drop Nineteens continue their comeback with 1991, a shoegazer's delight of a record. I love albums that take you on cosmic journeys, inwardly and outward to the stars...

Opening track...

High.: Come Back Down (Album of the Week)

Shoegazers of the world rejoice! High. is the band for you!! Their very first full length, Come Back Down, just dropped and it's a dream mess of wonder. We are already cascading on the opening track...

Next is chillax mode...

Then we have a track that is just plain gorgeous...

This New Jersey Band has a very bright future ahead of them!

Ride: Interplay (Album of the Week)

The pride of Oxford is back with a shoegaze extra dream poppy wonder of a record. Ride continues to completely amaze me with their ability to stand, Colossus-like, over the last four decades. Interplay has more pop sound than their previous record and it is most welcome. The opening track sets the perfect tone...

Later on in the record we get this stunner...

The very essence of Ride and, indeed, the entire genre...

Go listen!

Whitelands: Night-Bound Eyes Are Blind To The Day

One of London's top shoegaze and dream pop outfits, Whitelands, has a fantabulous record out called Night-Bound Eyes Are Bling To The Day. Dream pop and shoegaze lovers will rejoice at this magnificent outing filled with sonic landscapes guaranteed to oat your mind.

Opening track...

The Fauns: How Lost (Album of the Week)

After a ten year hiatus, Bristol's own shoegaze outfit, The Fauns, are back with How Lost. The opening track lets us all know how much they have been missed. 

The layers of sound on this one are otherworldly 

The next track is one of my faves on the record. Reminds me a lot of the vibe of the 80's. 

Play this one a lot, folks! It's bloody gorgeous!!

New Dad: Madra

The pride of Galway, Ireland has finally dropped their debut LP. Madra is a shoegaze wonder filled with goodness. I expect New Dad to be fathering themselves all over the world. 

Love the hooks on this one...

Hotline Tnt: Cartwheel

NYC's Hotline TNT are a shoegaze wonder of an outfit. Their latest is called Carthweel and it's guaranteed to make your dreams come true...while staring intently at your shoes.

Opening track, dreamers!

Emma Anderson: Pearlies

London's own Emma Anderson has, in the most eloquent of ways, managed to capture that 1967 melange of psych pop and lounge while still holding on to her shoegaze roots. Pearlies is quite a lovely record that has sent me on many mind palace journeys...

Here is the opening track...

The Armed: Perfect Saviors

Detroit's own shoegzers The Armed have a new record out called Perfect Saviors. It's my favorite thus far for this outfit of rotating characters and mysterious beings. The guitar power sweeps are out of this world. 

Opening track...

Slowdive: Everything Is Alive

Reading's own Slowdive is back with a stunner of a record called Everything Is Alive. It's bloody mags to see them back in fine form and making music again. Shoegazers and dream poppers rejoice!

Opening track...

Art School Girlfriend: Soft Landing (Album of the Week)

London's own Art School Girlfriend has taken the world by storm with Soft Landing, a shoegaze masterpiece guaranteed to send your mind to the cosmos. It sucks you in right away...

And then sends you to the cosmos...

I am so looking forward to seeing this outfit progress. The future is bright indeed!

Hannah Jadagu: Aperture

The spacey and mildly trippy pop of Hannah Jadagu has been in heavy rotation with me this summer. Her first full-length, Aperture, dropped back in May and it's an impressive debut. It helps the mind to travel and the soul to calm:)

Here is one of my faves...

Bdrmm: I Don't Know

Hull's own Bdrmm are back with I Don't Know, their sophomore entry into spaced-out shoegaze wonder. The world needs more music like this which allows us to deeply explore the inner workings of our individual mindscapes and cosmic journeys. 

It reminds me of reading a good sci-fi novel!