From Pia Fraus to Imandra Lake, from Picnic to She Bit Her Lip, Estonia's Seksound label has spent years with a carefully-curated roster of new releases and classic reissues in the shoegaze and dream pop vein. In the mid-nineties, the standard bearers of Slowdive sonic sweep in Estonia were inarguably Bizarre. Seksound reissued Bizarre's debut Beautica (1994), and the follow-up Café de Flor (1996) to a whole new generation of […]
It's chaos when all the hot new releases land at once. Here we are. The epic new LP from Blush Response (pictured above) arrived this week, and it's all we've been listening to. The new album from Winter dropped late last night, and we've been yelling about it wherever possible. The new Bloody Knives LP dropped literally minutes ago, generating much buzz for their national tour, underway now. And that's […]
Near to a month (give or take five days), and thousands of votes later, we're thrilled to present the Top 20 shoegaze and dream pop tracks for March, as voted by our listeners via the all-new DKFM App. As to the chart show itself, we could only cram 15 actual tunes into the hour allotted (and still slopped over), but each and every song in the top 20 got a […]
It's not that we're overbooked with new music (we usually are), it's that we're overbooked with headliners. Air Formation has returned with their first new album in eight years, and that deserves the headline. How could it not? With the exceptional history they have, surely they've earned headliner status. The new LP from KLASS II sees full release today on Luxury Records, and it's got all the elements that make […]
All of the new music came out this week. All of it. Running gag in the DKFM Facebook group, everybody marked March 1 on calendar, and everybody of note released on the same day. And we've had to purge a great deal from the weekend rotation to make room for the sparkling additions from this week alone. Headliners: Topographies. If there's any such thing as a "shoegaze supergroup", this is […]
New and pre-release music from everywhere, plus a few recent releases we haven't caught up to yet. We're celebrating the return of Beach Vacation, last seen when we'd spun them in 2013, and have since seen on milk cartons around Washington state. Okay, maybe that's an exaggeration. We catch up with Our Girl, formerly Soph Nathan (pictured above). Their "new" single is a rework of one of their early Soph […]
Portland, Maine's Crystal Canyon continue to impress, and generate good press worldwide for their hazy melodies and sweet harmonies. Multiple singles from their self-titled debut album continue to climb our airplay charts, and our listeners are paying attention to this talented squad. As a Valentine's gift to fans, Crystal Canyon today allowed us the video premiere for their epic single, "Sometimes Summertime", and it's a beauty. If you're socked in […]
Bounty. So much new material, Among the stars we celebrate this weekend: the new EP from Collapse (pictured above), and striking new tunes we've somehow not been aware of 'til now from Toronto's Away Forward. New releases abound from All About Rockets, Sonder, Bolinas, Dama Scout, Frankenchrist, dreamswell, Daysee, Creature In The Spiral, Meringue, Nameless Dreampop (actual band name!), Nurse, Pale Shade, Relay Tapes, Tapeworms, Uniforms, Warm, Fuzzy Feeling, Vacations, […]
The sparkling Bay Area trio Bellavista had a pretty big 2017, dropping their long-awaited album Sun and Skyway last June, to much critical acclaim. So it came as a bit of a shock that the lads already had a follow-up single waiting in the wings. If you've worn out the grooves on the LP, Bellavista is far from done. DKFM is well proud to present the streaming premiere of "Feline/Nocturnal", due […]
