Lush's reunion was cut short in 2016, and Emma Anderson had been working on songs for a new Lush album (post-EP) that never happened.
Some of that was repurposed and joined with new material for this solo album, which is quite melodic…some of it could be a soundtrack to a Peter Strickland movie.
I do miss the vocal interplay between Berenyi and Anderson, but it's nice to have Anderson back doing new music.
Wishing all our fellow Mastodonians a happy Winter Solstice and a very Merry Christmas. The latest blog post, 'New Towns, Mountains and Other Moons', is a whistle stop tour of our favourite words & music from 2023. You can read it, and listen to some musical highlights, here...
#23From2023 - #Slowdive - Everything is Alive (Dead Oceans). Seldom does a band on a second career run match the quality of their work 30 years earlier. I'm not saying this release tops Souvlaki, but Slowdive's deeper plunge into billowy dreampop is a natural progression from 2017's comeback effort. I miss the Cocteau Twins so damn much, and while "Alife" and "Kisses" aren't that, Neil Halstead and company bring a similarly keen melodic factor to their new work.
My latest Spotify playlist is called 'Church of Noise'.
It's a sprawling 12+ hour mixture of some of my favourite shoegaze, dream pop, power pop, slowcore, post-punk & noise rock songs... I threw a few of my own in there too.
I just released a new 3-song EP called 'Abduction Songs'. It's a dark and dreamy mixture of ethereal alt-folk, acoustic dreampop & dark ambient experimentation. Lost signals and broken transmissions, drifting through the ether...
Ah, the sound of my college years. Perfectly representative album of the developing indie scene of the time (e.g. Doolittle came out around this time)
This is when I started appreciating more mellow music. Probably because on this album they somehow make loud guitars and full throated vocals sound relaxing and dreamy. Lots of reverb and a rather melancholy vibe throughout.
Favorite song by far is the opening track, “Blue Thunder”. But this is another album that I’ve slowly found is best played all the way through, as each track blends seamlessly into the next.
@thopan Schön entspannter Sound, erneut danke für einen guten Tipp. Da fallen mir doch direkt diese Hashtags ein, damit noch mehr Leute Glaring entdecken können 😉 #DreamPop#Shoegaze#Bandcamp#ShortSongs#Bremen
Child Actor - Clear [Glitch Pop, Dream Pop] [2012] (www.youtube.com)
Charcoal Skies - The Beautiful Awful (feat. Dallas Fauteux) [Dream Pop] [2017] (www.youtube.com)
Bridal Veil - You Keep Calling [Dream Pop] [2019] (www.youtube.com)
The Blind Suns - Crystallized [Dream Pop] [2018] (www.youtube.com)
Beachy Head - Destroy Us [Dream Pop] [2021] (www.youtube.com)