New Shoegaze 2024/ 2025 from California 💥Cover: LAUREN LAKIS • Photo by Rick Perez (Goodtimerickstudios) • Updated regulary. Submissions welcome: www.blackmarketplaylists.de

NEW SHOEGAZE FROM CALIFORNIA

Dune Altar (DA-058)

Pillowprince is an Oakland-based indie gaze band that makes rock from cracking folds of leather and glittering chain link, from nights of red-gelled stage lights and mornings after that are way too bright, from hair matted with joy and danger and most of all from bodies making places for themselves only they know.
 
Songwriter and guitarist Olivia Lee (of There's Talk) sings about queer joy, pain, love and subversion, punctuating raw sincerity with vibrant brooding guitar riffs. Together with Sea Snyder on drums, they create dense, propulsive shoegaze anthems.

Massive and melodious, Pillowprince ebbs and flows between a dramatic intimate grandeur and irreverent indie pop on their debut EP, pretty, baby!, coming out on Dune Altar in Spring 2025.

pretty, baby!

Babybird

PILLOWPRINCE - Babybird

Prettier

The song is about obsessing over and idealizing lost love and the struggle to recapture the halcyon days of past relationships.

Kingfisher

Long Rehearsal

Talk

Response to Bio-Kem & Algorithmic Send Fi C3B & General Waste

Junglewars 2018

Talk

Whitney's Playland