What About American Shoegaze
 

Whenever shoegaze is discussed it's always about the british bands. Granted it was a bigger phenomenon over there but lets be serious some of those UK gazers weren't that good.

I'm going to be doing an article on american shoegazers and I need more background info. I can't find many on this continent. I only know the Swirlies and Medicine. I just discovered Medicine and think they're one of the best for the whole genre.I need more band names, but let me make it clear that the band has to be full on sheogaze not like Yo La Tengo with elements of it in the music.

If you have never heard Medicine watch the videos below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96qQ6y_QpIc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73_bm...eature=related

thankyou for introducing me to this.

medicine, i mean

yes, the swirlies, my local shoegaze band. boston is such a strange place for shoegaze though. they were incredibly inconsistent though, at times brilliant, and at times awful.

shoegaze was undoubtedly a british music, i feel mainly because the english have a grand tradition of pop music with experimental tendencies that started with the beatles, syd barret, etc.. up untill very recently there were never a whole lot of full on noise bands in england. i think im talking a load of shite here.

lovesliescrushing
Astrobrite
Asobi Seksu

Go listen now, you can thank me later.

you are

loveliescrushing is great, astrobite is good, i havnt listened much to asobi seksu but what i heard i thought was pretty average. good recomendations anyways.

yeah i just sounded like a fool, nihilist spasm band was british. the world first true noise band.

man im off my game today, nihilist was from london ontario, not england. fuckkckc.

Give Asobi another chance. Did you listen to their first album or the second one? The second one is WAY better. I think, anyway.

I was disappointed by the last lovesliescrushing, Chorus. It was far too sparse for my liking. What have you heard by Asobi Seksu? Citrus is much better than the self-titled.

anyways, loveliescrushing recently moved here to tucson. seen em play a couple times, i really like thier shit. they utilize noise and melodies in ways that are pretty unique within the genre.

never heard full ablums, just downloaded a lot of tracks after i read an interview with them in vice, the headline read, "spiritual xanax for the soul" and i knew i had to check them out.

If you're just doing that, get the track "Red Sea"

i got that one, its real fuckin good.

Whitehouse are from England.
Ramleh, Controlled Bleeding ("Body Samples" is a noise record if I've ever heard one, no matter what came later), I could go on and on. The UK has been steeped in noise from the word Go.

I saw Medicine once. It was pretty meh, but it was loud.
Total MBV live show copy action, right down to the whole "holocaust" deal.

dude, i know, i made a stupid remark. even so though, japan and u.s. still have a higher volume of noise and avant garde bands/artists.

Well, all I was saying is that the whole "up until very recently" thing was what I perceived as highly inaccurate. I was trying to illustrate that it was more the reverse by using examples from the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the UK and Europe in general were kicking the USA's ass in the extreme sounds department. The only ones from the USA doing comparable work at that time were maybe Non and Monte Cazazza.

Damn, I just read that post again and I sounded snooty as fuck.
Sorry about that.

no big deal.