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2016: The gift that keeps on giving

Not since the golden era of 2009-2011 have so many magnificent shoegaze albums been released in such rapid succession.

2016, I can’t keep up.

So far this year, we’ve been blessed with new releases by the following bands:

  • LSD and the Search for God
  • Nothing
  • bloody knives
  • Yuck
  • Pinkshinyultrablast
  • Hammock
  • Autolux
  • Mogwai
  • Deftones
  • Explosions in the Sky
  • M83
  • Ask For Joy
  • SULK
  • 65daysofstatic
  • The Verve (reissues)
  • Night School

Edited to add:

  • Pity Sex
  • DIIV
  • STFU

While releases by Autolux and M83 were unconventional enough to register no more than a blip on this radar, we’re still eagerly awaiting:

  • Airiel
  • Alcest
  • The Radio Department
  • A Shoreline Dream
  • Seasurfer (just announced).

Edited to add:

  • Tears Run Rings
  • Blueneck
  • The Emerald Down
  • The Stargazer Lilies

I can’t keep up.

Tell me what I’ve missed.

 

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Persistence.

 

28 revolutions around the sun.

Somewhere in a philosophical text is written something about the persistence of the soul beyond its material confines.
(No doubt an ancient parallel to the law of conservation of matter.)

One day I will have lived through my last birthday.

But I will persist in this:

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Incoming: Her Vanished Grace

 

I had the good fortune to have a lovely long email conversation with Charlie of Her Vanished Grace this week. I am going to disguise it as an insightful interview. When I say ‘long’ I do mean LONG, so prepare your eyes for AE’s very first Interactions in Installments!!!

Yeah, I just made that up.

Stick around…