What is your favorite post-My Vitriol shoegazing album (meaning everything after 2001 when the genre had a resurgence)?
My personal favorite is My Vitriol's Finelines followed by The Horrors' Primary Colours and Asobi Seksu's Citrus. Out of EPs I gotta give a nod to LSD And The Search For God (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMKkbco7UFE In case you wanted a sample).
I'm gonna go with two that came out this year - Yuck's "Yuck" and the Pains of Being Pure at Heart's most wonderfully excellent "Belong".
Oh man, Belong is great... have I mentioned how great Belong is?
Haven't heard "Yuck" yet, but I absolutely agree with "Belong", one of 2011 bests IMO, plus the best song for me there is the most shoegaze one: "Strange".
i haven't listened to a lot of shoegaze but Three Fact Fader by Engineers is a nice one.
Awesome, awesome album. Same goes for Pains of Being Pure at Heart's debut album; I haven't listened to Belong as much as I know I should have, but if I did then I'm sure it'd be up there too.
If Deerhunter's albums qualify, and I'm sure most of their earlier ones do, then DEERHUNTER! Also, Titus Andronicus makes shoegaze-punk work eerily well.
The Horrors' "Skying" is much more shoegaze influenced than the post-punky "Primary Colours".
Primary Colours is undeniably post-punk, no doubt, but it was more of an attempt to "darken" up the genre of shoegaze via combining goth rock and post-punk textures (like Singapore Sling did first in 2002 with their debut). Skying is more of a downright "traditional" shoegaze album in the fact that it has many more songs in major keys and doesn't use all the chromatic chords that Primary Colours does. Skying, while a decent effort, feels more like a "pop" album.
weedygonsalez wrote:
If Deerhunter's albums qualify, and I'm sure most of their earlier ones do, then DEERHUNTER!
Deerhunter is excellent but I've always wondered myself if they qualify as shoegaze or if they're just a strange combination of folk and noise pop. I won't argue too much with this one, but Halcyon Digest is definitely their best work.
As for Yuck, I hate to say this but why do people like them so much? I find them to be just a boring rehashing of Dinosaur Jr., myself. I also don't hear all the "wavy" textures that most shoegazing bands use, and think they're just more noise rock oriented.
As for The Pains, Belong is fantastic. It falls just short of being my favorite of the year behind Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues, but is undeniably the best shoegazing album of the year. On a unrelated note there is a shoegazing band called Belong that released an album this year that was pretty great, but hard to get into at first.
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I like those two and had no idea they were bringing back anything
