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who cares about lyrics anyway, it's all about delivery... err i mean who's singing them! sometimes i think yuki sings just to attract the anime-loving crowd on certain songs.
A lot of their stuff is good though. Check out their second album 'Citrus', which is a lot better and you can get a taste of their playful style. It's not for everyone though.
and to steer the thread to a little post-rock action, anyone heard of Carefully? They hail from texas and they make really nice songs.
MySpace.com - Carefully. - SAN MARCOS, Texas - Ambient / Indie / Rock - www.myspace.com/carefullytx
edit: for sexy and dangereuse, i'd go for the femme fatale, nico, myself. hail necrophilia!
A lot of their stuff is good though. Check out their second album 'Citrus', which is a lot better and you can get a taste of their playful style. It's not for everyone though.
and to steer the thread to a little post-rock action, anyone heard of Carefully? They hail from texas and they make really nice songs.
MySpace.com - Carefully. - SAN MARCOS, Texas - Ambient / Indie / Rock - www.myspace.com/carefullytx
edit: for sexy and dangereuse, i'd go for the femme fatale, nico, myself. hail necrophilia!
I'm not a big fan of nico or the velvet underground. i think that girl in goddard's breathless would've been a better choice for nec seksu.
Speaking of seksu, I'll pass on asobi seksu. They're like a saner emo version of deerhoof, who are themselves a saner version of the boredoms. There's only so much of playful jappy singing i can stomach.
That holy fukt is pretty good, though that's far from being shoegazing.
I don't really like breathy reverbed twee vocals, and heavily reverbed jangly guitars. There's a certain laziness to those musical creations that doesn't appeal to me. Same way that the post rock formula - soft, loud, twiddle a little bass, jangle a little, come back in with distortion -- doesn't thrill. There are only a few bands that can do any of these well, everyone else seems to follow the formula.
Here's one seminal shoegazing band.
YouTube - Ride - Close My Eyes
and here's smashing pumpkins heheheheh - no relationship other than it sounds the same somewhat
YouTube - Today
Speaking of seksu, I'll pass on asobi seksu. They're like a saner emo version of deerhoof, who are themselves a saner version of the boredoms. There's only so much of playful jappy singing i can stomach.
That holy fukt is pretty good, though that's far from being shoegazing.
I don't really like breathy reverbed twee vocals, and heavily reverbed jangly guitars. There's a certain laziness to those musical creations that doesn't appeal to me. Same way that the post rock formula - soft, loud, twiddle a little bass, jangle a little, come back in with distortion -- doesn't thrill. There are only a few bands that can do any of these well, everyone else seems to follow the formula.
Here's one seminal shoegazing band.
YouTube - Ride - Close My Eyes
and here's smashing pumpkins heheheheh - no relationship other than it sounds the same somewhat
YouTube - Today
dir
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Speaking of boredoms, I prefer OOIOO myself, only that boredoms has more better albums. I couldn't get into deerhoof at all, but I only tried listening to one album.
Not much of a shoegazing fan either. It's just that I can't deny the influence some of the good shoegazing/dreampop bands have on me, especially MBV and Cocteau Twins.
here's a video of Violet Indiana - Purr la Perla (robin guthrie's side project with Siobhan de Mare of mono) that I quite like, more so that I ought to:
YouTube - Violet Indiana - Purr la Perla
Not much of a shoegazing fan either. It's just that I can't deny the influence some of the good shoegazing/dreampop bands have on me, especially MBV and Cocteau Twins.
here's a video of Violet Indiana - Purr la Perla (robin guthrie's side project with Siobhan de Mare of mono) that I quite like, more so that I ought to:
YouTube - Violet Indiana - Purr la Perla
Great song. I couldn't quite get into the cocteau twins though. At the time i was more into feedback and distortion.
Like ...
YouTube - Curve, "Clipped"
What in tarnation is emo jumps?
dir
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Curve is awesome, I love re-discovering old songs on youtube 
the video production is so overly dramatic, like an american filmmaker trying to imitate a pretentious french auteur or something.
anyways for some newer stuff, anyone heard of Sleepy Eyes of Death? noo, not those 60's samurai films..
MySpace.com - Sleepy Eyes Of Death - SEATTLE, Washington - Shoegaze / Electrónica en directo / Visual - www.myspace.com/sleepyeyesofdeath
the video production is so overly dramatic, like an american filmmaker trying to imitate a pretentious french auteur or something.anyways for some newer stuff, anyone heard of Sleepy Eyes of Death? noo, not those 60's samurai films..
MySpace.com - Sleepy Eyes Of Death - SEATTLE, Washington - Shoegaze / Electrónica en directo / Visual - www.myspace.com/sleepyeyesofdeath
dir
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yeah, with their latest being a letdown and all, I wasn't too keen on remembering them..but I always thought they had potential for better stuff.
here's a few more dreampop/shoegazing stuff I like
MySpace.com - auburn lull - MI//PA - Experimental / Indie / Shoegaze - www.myspace.com/auburnlull
new album out, full of nice
MySpace.com - brasilia - BROOKLYN, NEW YORK - Indie / Experimental / Pop - www.myspace.com/brasilia
love their sound and lineup features members of mahogany
MySpace.com - Velocity Girl - College Park, Maryland - Alternativa / Indie / Rock - www.myspace.com/velocitygirl71
I love the vocals
also,
YouTube - Lush - Hypocrite
rottenramone
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wow, holy puck's good. damn good.
here was i listening to tortured soul... YouTube - Tortured Soul at Java Jazz Festival 2006
here was i listening to tortured soul... YouTube - Tortured Soul at Java Jazz Festival 2006
AgingYouth
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I <3 Tortured Soul... Caught them at the Green Room Sessions 3 years ago. Fucken good live band. They played a continuous 70min set of live house music. Amazing!
edder
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Curve is awesome, I love re-discovering old songs on youtube
anyways for some newer stuff, anyone heard of Sleepy Eyes of Death? noo, not those 60's samurai films..
MySpace.com - Sleepy Eyes Of Death - SEATTLE, Washington - Shoegaze / Electrónica en directo / Visual - www.myspace.com/sleepyeyesofdeath
curve is another one of my favourite bands... till they came out of retirement and recorded an album that sounded like Garbage who in the first place tried sounding like Curve... hahaha....
yellowStrat
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woot...
maybe the genre itself does not appeal much to our music scene here..??
maybe the genre itself does not appeal much to our music scene here..??
AgingYouth
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Which genre?
yellowStrat
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shoegazing... i know of a local band who plays shoegazing...
dir
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maybe, as evident by the lack of posters in this thread. but soft isn't an accurate representation of the musicians or the music scene in singapore, and again, what does this have to do with anything?
so, anyone actually bothered to listen to more than a single M83 track yet?
