Our studios practically lit up last month, as word of a new album from Denver's moody shoegaze veterans A Shoreline Dream started making the rounds. As their career has advanced, they've borrowed more and more heavily from a darker aspect, a more goth/darkwave backbone to their shoegaze journeys, and we'd been given no reason to believe that would change on this outing. Fast forward to, well, today, and here we […]
Andy Jossi is never one to do a thing halfway. His sonic sculptures rival his visual work in depth and intensity, as rich visuals often match sumptuous sonic swells. Sure, we may have occasionally chided about near-epic-length songs, but The Churchhill Garden is his project: he writes the sonic structure, he decorates with swirls and filigree, and he allows each creation to unfold at its own pace, never sacrificing until […]
It's not really supposed to happen this way. By the time the third single from a forthcoming album drops, you can often expect an attendant drop in quality. This is not that, in fact, far from it. We, like the rest of the shoegaze-loving world, have been waiting for the February 18th release of Blushing's Possessions LP on Kanine Records. The first two singles were understandably a cut above, reaching […]
There are anomalies, there are outliers, and there's Älägator. A Finn-inspired quintet that was born in Edinburgh, U.K. (currently residing in NYC), specializing in a sort of slowcore dream pop that takes you to the outer reaches of imagination. While the instrumentation is tightly and deftly controlled, it belies a certain fragility, in that it feels like it can fall apart at any moment. If you're looking for comparisons, keep […]
No, not "Lemmy", that's Motörhead. "Lemony". It's like a fresh lemon tart with powdered sugar sprinkled generously on top. Coming from T. G. Shand, formerly of station standouts Miniatures, but now a solo songwriting powerhouse, it's another impressive chapter in a fresh and surprising sonic evolution. The first new single since February's "The Ease", it's got so many engaging elements competing for your ear, and it's all sonic sugar. Guitar […]
We've been anticipating the single drops for the upcoming Wednesday album, drop by drop. This Asheville, North Carolina quintet are stumbling towards excellence with every step forward. By now you may have heard "Handsome Man", one of the singles in hot rotation on our air. But all is tease, all is temptation, as there's so many more facets to this band, revealing on the Twin Plagues LP release this 13 […]
New song. New video. New cast? Seems like a whole lot has been going on with Lightfoils. We last checked in with the crew in August 2019, pre-covid, as the future still looked limitless. As cornerstone artists on the DKFM platform, it's up to us to find out what's going on now, and what it means for this talented lot going forward. We caught up with the modified cast of […]
If you have any familiarity with the station, you know we're pretty keen on Crystal Canyon. With the new album, yours with affection and sorrow, already pegged to compete with the top ten albums of 2021 by year's end, this band of sonic veterans is already well regarded in these studios. What makes the sound so special? It's not terribly complex, it doesn't bend or break genre rules, or take […]
Martial drums open the new single from Beirut, Lebanon's Postcards, and you're forced to pay attention. This is an urgency, a constrained frenzy we're not used to from Postcards, who specialize in richly textured dream pop. And it's a bit of a walk from their dizzying-but-intimate DreamGaze Worldwide performance to this claustrophobic opening. And it's here where context matters most. Since we last checked in with Postcards, a big chunk […]
