Moose - Regulo 7

Look Back In Anger: BritishIndieShoegaze90s group Moose, enjoyed relative obscurity throughout their brief existence. Luckily, Moose spent some time to record a few records and the results were fantastic! Regulo 7 is a beautifully produced song, with an addictively arco string section that flutters across a medley of breathy vocals and acoustic guitar. Such a dreamy tune. Brings to mind Stereolab, or The Field Mice. Really if your into 60s leaning French Folk plus the sound of psychedelic England than this could be your jam. Also check out the rest of Moose's discography, its vastly under-heard.

Dead Moon - D O A (video)

Look Back In Anger: Oregon's Dead Moon, were dark visionaries, exploring the solitary lunar landscape of punk and garage rock. Strumming and mumbling through the dribbly depths of low fidelity from the late 80s to early 00s, DM set a standard for paper mached guitar music and back-2-basix Punk. Think Deerhunter and Black Lips, plus like Television Personalities and The Cramps. Good shit:

Ex Cops - Black Soap (video)

Sorry for the vacant space that's been lingering around here .. up until recently I was lost in a K-hole and only just came out of it! Anyway... here's a tune by a fun new group! Punky 90s pop connoisseurs Ex Cops combine the right amount of guitar flexin and glossy sexiness. This is the sort of song that could have achieved chart toppin success right along with The Cranberries, Pumkins or St Etienne.

Statuesque - Meltdown Disney

Look Back In Anger: One of the least well known, and probably most under appreciated acts I've ever been turned onto is Statuesque. One man virtuoso, Stephen Manning, has been producing delicately intricate guitar pop since the mid 90s, yet a simple Google search yields almost nothing about him and his music. Statuesque is Manning's transcendental passage through early 80s College Rock to early 90s fuzz. Like a super combo group of The Field Mice and Starflyer 59, or something. Whether this is for you or not, the dude's riff game is on point. Don't have a cow, just meltdown Disney style w/ Statuesque.

Teenage Fanclub - Everything Flows (video)

Look Back In Anger: A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of standing in the shadow of the Intrepid aircraft carrier, at Pier 84 in New York City; to witness a free show put on by Teenage Fanclub. It had been awhile since the boys had played a gig and even longer since I'd listened to one of their records (to be perfectly honest), yet the group rang with a refreshing tone of renewal and relevance. The slacker, monotone drone of the 90s is ever-present in todays Indie music, though few groups are capable of capturing the precision and purist methodology Fanclub used in their construction of pop melodies. Velvet harmonies, and fuzzy guitar hooks won over even Kurt Cobain at one point, though its not simply the scuzz and fuzz that makes this band. It's a warm familiarity infused in nearly all of their albums, (obviously some more than others) that transcends the trappings of their time. Not unlike The Beatles, or Beach Boys, in a certain sense, if you will... And if you're not a fan yet, then I suggest looking up their entire discography. Here's their first ever single, performed live at Reading in 92:

Real McCoy - Another Night (video)

Look Back In Anger: Its Monday here's your blast from the past: (Shoutout to Big A for this recommendation.) Remember Real McCoy? or that Ultimate Dance Party cd from 96?? Well here is one of the top songs of the last century. ur welcome:

Kuhrye-oo - Air Days ft. Evy Jane

#ClubbangingWednesday. Canadian House wizard, Kuhrye-oo, conjures up 90s leaning, techno rhythms and swirls them around down-tempo pop melodies. Air Days has touches of The Orb, or early Moby, with marching band drum machine snares, snapping around a cloud-like synth. Evy Jane sounds like a cross between Paul Cole and Grimes, as her voice is thrown around the track to a dizzying degree. This is straight weirdo pop and it totally rulez:

Swirlies - Upstairs

Look Back In Anger: Thinking about lesser heard OG shoegaze, Swirlies come to mind. As of late, I've been bumpin their Blonder Tongue Audio Baton, so it seems totally worth it to give them a little blog love (#bluv). Swirlies did and do, sort of slosh between a traditional Shoegaze sound and more American, 90s fuzz pop. Your basic My Bloody Sonic Youthes, if you will. Upstairs is a cut off of What To Do About Them and it really sounds like something from Isn't Anything, or possibly an early Pumkins demo. Anywho, here's something to wet your hair to at least..

Beverly - Honey Do

Frankie Rose + Drew Citron = crunchy fuzz pop with a 90s Alt tinge. Simple and effective, effortless girled out guitar pop. TGIF, enjoi:

Todd Osborn - 5thep

Finnnnallly, finnally, finally. A club banger worth puttin up. Dude, Todd O + Joel from Hot Chip = dope ass shit. This is that early 90s hotness. Its a Sex-House, over-use-of-a-sample, feel-this-fckn-beat typa jam. Dig it:

Slowdive - Shine

Another Monday, another day to reflect on the mundane. It's also time for another weekly installment of Look Back In Anger, where we look back through a tiny tiny lens on one artist that I happen to think is important. When I'm out and about on the steets and someone recognizes me I usually get asked one of two questions. The first being: "Hey, is the express train down this way?" The second being: "Kevin, what is Shoegaze?" And in response to that latter, I must say, "Shoegaze is not a thing, its a way of life, bro." Is it the sound of the wind rustling the pine bows of winter-logged Fir trees, gathered along the coast? No, it is not. Is it the sound of a leaky fawcet that wakes you from a foggy dream about fluorescent clouds that drift into your bedroom and drip rainbow candy onto your head? More or less, yes, it is. If I had to pick a band to introduce someone to this furtive genre I would pick My Bloody Valentine, but a close runner up would undoubtedly be Slowdive. Recently my mind evaporated when the internet announced Slowdive's reunion. The band is reuniting after 20 years, to do a new album and play new shows. It seems only too appropriate that we at Bigfoot Sightings report this astounding news from the world of Dream-Pop. Bellow watch one of the few clips for Slowdive, where they swirl through a field of wild flowers and get lost in their guitars and the sky. Stay tuned to LBS for all the latest shoegaze and Slowdive news to come!

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong

The new video for TPOBPAH is a real trip down memory pane. The Pains haven't put out an album since 2011, so this clip is sorta a blast from the past.. on numerous levels. Proving that not everyone does look good in make-up, the band puts together a their best Cure-meets-Pumpkins-meets-Weezer look for a totally 90s stage(d) performance of Belong. It's a fun vid, and brings to mind the latest from Dum Dum Girls, which also rips visuals from the hey-day of Alt videos. So tune in here! And get your fuzz on:

Black Hearted Brother - (I Don't Mean to) Wonder

Shoegaze super-group featuring Neil Halstead of Slowdive and Mark Van Hoen of Seefeel, have come together to catharticly disembowel the world, through the power of ambient music. A few things to consider with this post: I personally have been waiting for Slowdive to reunite for a millenia and stumbling upon an email from a friend detailing the reunion of Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell on satge for a few dates in London was enough to implode my cranium. But then I read on. Not only has Neil reunited with Rachel, but he has also reunited with the sound of distortion. None of that yawn inducing, pseduo-country, Moajave 3 crap here! Black Hearted Brother is Neil and Mark Van Hoen shedding their ability to tour with Jack Johnson, and fulling engulfing themselves in the soup of early 90s big muff, Marshall stack, unintelligible-hyper-delay vocal greatness!

Let's be real. In 2013 have they reinvented the wheel? No. Have they even put out a new track that is as good as their best Slowdive or Seelfeel shit? ehhhh..No... BUT DON'T FRET! The tune might not be mind-blowing but its pretty damn satisfying.. even just hearing Neil repeat the line "I don't mean to wonder," in that blissed-out, monotone beauty is spine tingling. The is like the finale to Breaking Bad. Was it the finest, most artfully written BB episode to date? No way. But everyone has been waiting for it for so fucking long that it was enough for it just to air. It was a sweet episode, okay? Jack and those Nazis got lit up and Jessie got to drive off into the night, and that is what is happening here. It's not quite Slowdive, but some Nazis are getting blown away. No Doubt, you need to check this:

Medicine - It's Not Enough

Rippling tides of buzzing guitars liquidate the latest from LA-based 90s-gaze all-stars, Medicine! Medicine gained ground with a re-imagining of their single Time Baby II for the Crow soundtrack. That came out ages ago, but luckily everyone is like way into the dream-pop scene again and Medicine has born itself anew; dropping in our laps a new collection of skull-sizzling fuzz-poppers. It's Not Enough has a familiar Med-sound, with the vocals low and the guitars super echoy and loud. The video is some heady shit. The band is rockin in a basement-like-studio-space, with rainbow amoebas and other microscopic creatures scuttling across the cameras lens - Its a beautiful thing.

Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk - Saturday

Amazing Slowdive meets The Microphones sorta track. Fuzzy repetitive ambiance, with an irresistible chord progression. Like a long lost tape from a now defunct 90s group, found in your uncle's attic bedroom in your grandma's house. BBDDM has that nostalgic feel that many groups attempt and never get quite right. Bedroom-sleep-pop, y'all.

Drake - Girls Love Beyonce

After 2 primo hip-hop singles from the OVO don, we finally get a taste of an uber smooth r&b banger. Flaunting his love for late 90s r&b hits, Drake transform's Destiny's Child's early single "Say My Name," into a self questioning slow jam. This is a typical Drake move, as he's sampled Aaliyah, and Hot Boys in the past, yet somehow his nostalgic redoubling always seems to come off as fresh and nuanced. Appreciating the past and reinvigorating old sounds without stepping out of the Drake sound.

No Joy - Hare Tarot Lies

You ever go the fair and get one of those wavy shaped bottles that you fill with different color sand and then stick a stick down the sides to make sick sand designs that will last forever? That's exactly what this video is like, plus theres a lot of Busch Light, Bong rips, and chicks going to vom town. No Joy are at the top of the shoegazin, grungey girl band game right now. Their new album, Wait To Please incorporates a lot of 90ish elements reminiscent of Chapterhouse, Lush, and even bits of The Breeders and Nirvana. Holla. This is dope.