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Shoegaze, dreampop & psych playlist #238*

Shoegaze & More III

obscure 90s-00s shoegaze

pleroma

Never have the words 'What a year!' meant so much than in 2020.

Despite everything, it's been an amazing year, with so many quality tunes being aired.

Here's my favourites from 2020, listed in NO particular order.

Thanks for listening, and to all the artists for making this possible.

Best Of 2020 - Dean Bromley's Soundcloud

Possessions

Lost Cat

everything is alive

shanty

Ozean

Fall

Porcelain

Gold Zebra, Love French Better

Veins is a seething, exploration of the feelings that linger years after a brutal separation. It's a catharsis of suppressed anger and regret.

Veins

Mourning Haze

underadarklight.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/inrgd
inrgd.bandcamp.com/album/ficar-bruxa

Cognitive dissonance (w. INRGD)

Volplane - Two Worlds

Breadmaker

Simon's Day

5 Listens

Soft Sounds from Another Planet

Diving Woman

ekin fil is the acclaimed drone-pop chanteuse working with the sparest of materials in her ethereal, shoegaze deconstructions. her sound developed out of a healthy obsession with cranes, cocteau twins, slowdive and many other bands that she discovered in the tattered back issues of nme and the home-dubbed tapes that were passed around when she was growing up in turkey. upon a fortuitous invitation to perform alongside grouper in istanbul in the late oughts, ekin fil (nee ekin üzeltüzenci) began producing a series of hidden gems in the drone-rock underworld through releases on root strata, students of decay, bathetic and no kings. ghosts inside continues to find ekin coaxing somber melodies out of echo, shadow and whisper, even as she expands her arrangements to include piano and keyboards to accompany the guitar, voice and array of pedals that had been front and central on her previous recordings. 

ghosts inside stands as her most arresting recordings to date, written during a period of personal despair with an oblique poetry of sadness cascading through the songs. her father battling cancer. the end of a romance. it's an introspective sound, completely turned in on itself and tuning out the socio-political tumult of her native home in istanbul. in confronting psychic distress, heartache and depression, ekin fil blocks out the rest of the world to concentrate on the immediate issues of human relationships and their many complications. allusions to catharsis flicker through the sullen, narcotized beauty of ghosts inside, updating the mood found on those classic 4ad albums of the '80s (i.e. garlands, it'll end in tears, lonely is an eyesore, etc.) orbiting the spheres of grouper, lovesliescrushing and stars of the lid.

Ghosts Inside

Ekin Fil // Before A Full Moon

Sinful Nature. 
Taken from our 3rd album "I Love You, It's Cool" due for release on April 3rd 2012 through Dead Oceans / Hometapes

Released by: Dead Oceans 
Release/catalogue number: DOC064 
Release date: Apr 3, 2012

Bear In Heaven - Sinful Nature

Stop The Sun

Back To You

Without You

A Premonition

Impermanence

Second Guess

From the "Swim" two-song single release on Hauskat Records. 
https://filmschoolmusic.bandcamp.com/

Written and Produced by Film School
Co-produced and Mixed by Dan Long
Mastered at Howie Weinberg Mastering by Howie Weinberg and Will Borza
Additional vocals on “Don’t You Ever” by Noël Brydebell courtesy of Wild Signals

Cover Photo by Steve Simko IG @simkophoto
Photo Model - Kristina Kupka IG @doublek23

Is This A Hotel

Taken from the AA side 12", out 14th Feb 2020. Pre-order here - https://smarturl.it/WhiteFlowers 

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On the third floor of an abandoned textile mill to the north of Preston, a wave of strange musical beauty is blossoming. Brought up on the sounds of 80s Manchester though too young to have experienced it first hand, White Flowers, made up of Katie Drew and Joey Cobb, make gloriously gothic dreampop that’s as ambiguous as it is beautiful and exciting.

On 15th January 2020, the duo release Night Drive the first track from their debut double A-sided single Tough Love Records which also features the track Portra.

Co-produced by Doves’ guitarist, Jez Williams, Night Drive’s guitars carry a Kevin Shields-esque drone, as they swirl above its fragmented arrangement. Apocalyptic in nature, it twists and turns - thematically covering anxiety, fragility and frustration, while reminding that, even in the lowest of moments, one should not lose hope. 

‘Creating and crafting the songs has always been a therapeutic outlet for us,’ Cobb stated. ‘It’s been a long process, but it’s been one which has helped us deal with the frustration, worries and difficulties that come with every day life. It’s definitely a very cathartic record. It serves as a kind of journal of growing up and maturing in the 21st Century.’

Having begun life as scraps of ideas on a laptop, the songs were carefully crafted by the pair, before Williams got on board. 

‘At times, it’s easy to lose sight of the bigger picture when you’re so involved in the song,’ Drew noted. ‘Jez was great at drawing out the most important aspects. A lot of the songs are first takes - recorded at home in a very lo-fi way, but Jez gave us confidence. He made us realise that the rawness and the accidents are where the magic is. As fans of Doves, we’ve always admired the soundscapes and sampling techniques that they use, so it was a privilege to work with him.
Prior to the release, White Flowers will be heading out on tour with Toy to celebrate Independent Venue Week. The dates are as follows:

25.01.20 – Independent – SUNDERLAND
26.01.20 – The Live Rooms – CHESTER
27.01.20 – The Boileroom – GUILDFORD
28.01.20 – The Cookie – LEICESTER
29.01.20 – The Smokehouse – IPSWICH
20.01.20 – Esquires – BEDFORD
31.01.20 – The Joiners – SOUTHAMPTON
01.02.20 – Ramsgate Music Hall – RAMSGATE

The double A-side single, Night Drive / Portra will be released on 12” vinyl on February 14th and is limited to 100 copies. It comes in a hand stamped sleeve and includes a ‘zine produced by the band. The band’s debut album will be released later in 2020.

White Flowers - Night Drive

Music and all Instruments: 
The Churchhill Garden | Andy Jossi (Switzerland) 

Lyrics and Vocals: 
Krissy Vanderwoude (USA) 

Mastered by: 
Andrew Rose at pristine audio .

Life is hard 
I know 
I’ve been where you are 
You’re not alone 

Don’t give up 
I am here for you 
When you need a friend 
To see you through 
Turn to me 

Just reach out 
When you’re feeling down 
And you need someone 
Who will stay around 
When life gets hard 
And you’re in the dark 
Let me shine for you 
And protect your heart 

I will follow through 
With everything I say I’ll do 
For you 
I will lift you up 
I’ll help you see 
The light ahead 
in reach 

I will prove to you 
That I am here for you 
Hold on 
This will pass 
These dark times 
Will not last 

Just reach out 
When you’re feeling down 
And you need someone 
Who will stay around 
When life gets hard 
And you’re in the dark 
Let me shine for you 
And protect your heart 

© Krissy Vanderwoude 2020
credits
released February 14, 2020 
Thanks to the League

light

The Churchhill Garden - Light

Oceans

Seagoat

The Pink Elephants 2020 God's Children Breathe The Ether While Holding Up The Sky

Peter McNestry: synth, drums,effects
Kalon Beaudry: guitar,synth
Janice Beaudry: bass

At The End Of The Sky

Porch

This quick and dirty little ditty is our 2020 Theme Song!

Shine So Bright

Myanmar

"All About Rockets find middle ground in a mixed bag of influences to form a sound that is as dense as it is space-worthy, indifferently drifting between dreamy, psychedelic jams and skin-melting pop songs."

John Grow - vocals & guitar
Kyle Fowler - guitar
Jason Grow - drums
Joe Gibbs - bass