Thursday, August 23, 2007

Friday, August 17, 2007

My Dead Girlfriend [JPN]


My Dead Girlfriend is one of the shoegaze bands and playing in Tokyo, Kanagawa, and Saitama. The band was formed by Ishikawa in Tokyo, July 2005. Now, the band is based around Ishikawa, Ideta, Shimano, kinoshita, Takahashi and Otsuka.

http://mydeadgirlfriend.hp.infoseek.co.jp/

http://www.myspace.com/shinndabokunokanojyo

Monday, August 13, 2007

Maribel [Nor]


Maribel is a quartet from Oslo, Norway, and these guys have what it takes to be the next big thing from the north. Their sound can be put in the same category as the noise and shoegaze-oriented bands from the 80s, like My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive and Spacemen 3, and it is obvious that the four members in the band have studied their musical references closely. They paint out large canvases of sound, carpets of reverberated guitar-drones, energetic and minimalistic drumpatterns repeat and repeat, some dreamy vocals can be heard far in the background. It’s noisy, dark and chaotic, and at the same time it feels dreamy, warm, comfortable and meditative.

http://www.myspace.com/maribelband


Saturday, August 11, 2007

Submarine Fleet [US]

"In a Case of Fire" e.p.
© 2005 Submarine Fleet

http://cdbaby.com/cd/submarinefleet

Five long, dreamy arrangements... with lush, electrified, shoegazery instrumentation and compelling male vocals.






A Very Strange Sight In The Distance (Enhanced CD)
© 2007 Below Sea Level Recordings

http://cdbaby.com/cd/submarinefleet2



Thirteen new tracks forge an exquisitely weathered, rain infused ethereal shoegaze atmosphere on this 2007 release from Portland, Oregon's Submarine Fleet.




Since 2005, the sublime shoegazery songs of Submarine Fleet have been stealthily gathering adherents across America and beyond. On the strength of 2005's self released EP "In A Case Of Fire", the band was chosen to perform at NYC's Drop Dead Festival, as well as Portland's Convergence13 gothic music festival. Submarine Fleet's atmospheric soundscapes have found their way into independent film as well, most notably with four songs featured in Per Anderson's feature length masterpiece "Stanley Cuba".
Whilst remaining a stealthy gem in Portland's sprawling music scene, Submarine Fleet opted to spend the better part of 2006 writing and recording new songs, which yielded in 2007 the compelling full length album "A Very Strange Sight in the Distance". "...Strange Sight..." is released on the band's own Below Sea Level Recordings label and is available internationally through Projekt/Darkwave Distribution, CDBaby and electronically through iTunes.

http://www.myspace.com/submarinefleet



http://www.submarinefleet.com/

Friday, August 10, 2007

Triángulo de Amor Bizarro [Esp]

Triangulo de Amor Bizarro (Bizarre Love Triangle) is a band coming from A Coru馻, north Spain. Their palette of sounds moves between the obsessiveness and hypnotism of shoegazer geometry, exactly as Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine used to do. They are followers of the No-Wave and the Kraut progression taken from the legacy of bands such as Stereolab. Shadows of noise which will make the listener swing into feverish darkness or blinding brightness.

"Triangulo de Amor Bizarro"(2007, Mushroom Pillow)

Although their name, Triangulo de Amor Bizarro, is the exact Spanish translation of one of the most famous New Order’s songs (Bizarre Love Triangle)




http://www.myspace.com/trianguloamorbizarro





http://www.mushroompillow.com/es/triangulo_de_amor_bizarro

Thursday, August 2, 2007

Domiana [US]


Domiana is 21st century grand guignol Whorrorshow Cabaret.
Faust-Wave subliminal theatre, Retrofuture decadence.
Cinematic and dramatic, It is the soundtrack for the decline and fall.
A Carnal Carnival for The Dandies of the New Darkness,The Doomsayers of the American Dream, The Aesthetes of the Armageddon, The pin-up pariahs of the Technopocalypse.

Mynjun [Swe]


Mynjun is a death metal band that was formed in Sweden, in 2002. Two demos have been released since then. Currently there are only two members in Mynjun; Adam (vocals/guitars) and Rickard (guitars). The band is looking for a drummer and a bassist to complete the line-up. A third demo is now being recorded, scheduled for release in 2007. The demo is being recorded with Adam and Rickard sharing bass duties and using programmed sampled drum sounds.
Discography:

Commencement - Demo, 2003
Receding Strengths - Demo, 2005