Check out this mundanely beautiful “home video” type music video for “Possession” by Montreal, Canada’s musician/producer Miracle Fortress (aka Graham Van Pelt). This track showcases Van Pelt’s knack for layering instrumentation to create breathtaking shoegaze, indie pop soundscapes and is the first of many “bonus singles,” which were formerly unreleased and written during the time he recorded his sophomore album, Was I The Wave?. If you’re in the New York area and are attending CMJ (I envy you) check out Miracle Fortress on October 20th at Brooklyn’s Public Assembly and the 21st at NYC’s Arlene’s Grocery before he embarks on an European tour through December.
With Labor Day weekend coming and going, it is sad to say that summer is nearing its end. Lucky for us, my fellow Los Angelinos in Letting Up Despite Great Faultsdecided to give summer one last hurrah with a video for “Teenage Tide,” the latest single off their EP Paper Crush. The lolling, electro-shoegaze produced by the californian outlet meshes brilliantly with the hazy, carefree imagery of the video, allowing its viewer to sit back and reminisce of those long summer teenage nights.
Straight from Stockholm, Sweden, comes the shoegaze duo I Break Horses. The beautiful black and white avant-garde video for the girl/boy twosome’s first single, “Winter Beats,” is a tantalizing teaser for the group’s debut LP, Heart, which is slated for an August 23rd release via I Kill Love/Bella Union.
Rain On A River is the debut release of Mike Smalle, aka B Movie Lightning. This self-recorded album blends multiple formats & genres into catchy, drone-pop, shoegaze tracks. He hits the same vein as Working For A Nuclear Free City, never adhering to one sound or style in particular from track to track. Here’s my favorite, “Take Yourself To The City.”
Although they’ve been getting buzz since 2009, the four guys and a gal who make up Young Prisms have yet to release a full-length record. But that will change January 18, when the San Francisco-based psychedelic shoegaze quintet releases its debut LP, Friends for Now, on Kanine Records. “Sugar,” the first single off the album, is a nice teaser for Young Prisms’ sound—lucid, meandering, and magnificently reverb-y.
If you like what you hear, be sure to catch the fivesome touring with fellow San Franciscans Melted Toys and Radio Dept. in the U.S., and Surfer Blood in the U.K.
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Artist: Young Prisms
Song: Sugar
Album: Friends For Now
Yuck’s video for “Rubber,” the band’s second single off its self-titled debut album (out February 15 on Fat Possum), has a naked girl in it, ’nuff said.
Echo Tongues is the brainchild of 22-year-old Washingtonian Gary Wilson. His first (and only) two recordings, “Lost Found,” and “French Phrase for Purpose” are drenched with fuzzy distortion and hazy, dream-pop meandering (think Deerhunter) that will translate beautifully onto a 7” record later this year. If you like what you hear, you can download the tracks and pre-order the limited edition single, which, by the way, is pressed on red and white vinyl, here. And with the recent addition of two live band members, keep your peepers peeled for tour dates!
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