Every so often I come across a track that develops into a fixation requiring constant plays. Beyond by the London based These Sleeping Hands is one of those tracks. It’s a hypnotic shoegazing track, interwoven with so many textures and … Continue reading These Sleeping Hands – Beyond
Market Harborough’s Hidden Eyes channel their inner Pains of Being Pure At Heart on new single So Alive. It’s a fuzzy DIY indiepop track that should even get the dead moving. On the flip side we find Piranha which is … Continue reading Hidden Eyes – So Alive/Piranha
Another mix to end the week on featuring tracks that have grabbed my attention over the past week or so. Dreamy ethereal seems to be the main theme this week as tracks from Powder Pink & Sweet, Swallowtail and Yndling … Continue reading The “I Still Think About You” Sampler
Three tracks I discovered via a spree on Youtube. Forty Winks – Liadfh Noisy and experimental stuff from this US based band. It’s taken from the recently released Love Is a Dog From Hell EP. Fuzzy and distorted guitars with … Continue reading A Midweek Threesome – Three With Videos
The new single from Canadian shoegazers Prepare My Glider features voice and words from the Moscow based, and previous collaborator Senya aka Gouachepaint. Titled Embrace the Tragedy the band write that the track is inspired by epic tracks from the … Continue reading Prepare My Glider (feat Gouachepaint) – Embrace the Tragedy
As I mentioned on a previous post may has been a pretty hectic month here at RIL Towers. Well end of terrace to be fair. Not much posting but plenty of listening and enough to populate a new mix. As … Continue reading Records I Like Mix May 2025
The Taiwanese shoegaze band The Giraffe Told Me in My Dream are back with their second EP and almost five years after their first. Velvet Distortion is a four track EP which features shimmering and ethereal shoegaze populated by sometimes … Continue reading The Giraffe Told Me in My Dream – Velvet Distortion
Australian shoegaze act Seven Hour Days’ last single Down And Out was an astonishing track that will surely appear in my, and many others best of 2025 lists when that time comes. Following something that good would always present a … Continue reading Seven Hour Days – Set Free
There has not been a lot of posting this month but plenty of listening instead which means we have reached the third sampler of the month. That must be a new erm, “record” for me. However given the excellent music … Continue reading The “Did You Hear?” Sampler
The latest release from the Jakarta based Lost Wave Records is a split release between The Flight Of Maltanese and Marryanne. The label describes the release as a collaboration between twee pop and shoegaze and rather than a hybrid of … Continue reading The Flight Of Maltanese / Marryanne – One Fine Day
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