Brother/Ghost is a band from Austin, Texas, USA. This is their debut album, released earlier this year. Really nice post-rock/experimental/shoegaze music. Excellent debut! Highly recommended!
Epic45 is a great British band; I have already posted one of their previous albums here. This is their new album released earlier this year. A beautiful combination of post-rock, shoegaze, electronica and pop. A fantastic band! Highly recommended!
Lights Out Asia is a downtempo and post-rock musical project that was formed in early 2003 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Their music combines elements from electro, shoegaze and post-rock. Garmonia is their debut album released on Sun Sea Productions in 2003. Really good!
Arctic Plateau is the solo project by Gianluca Divirgilio from Rome, Italy. His music is a combination of post-rock and showgaze with some fantastic epic and dark parts. This is his debut album. Really good!
The World on Higher Downs is a four piece group from Wisconsin, USA. Their music is electroacoustic/ambient with some shoegaze influences, creating fantastic multilayered melodies and amazing atmospheres. Land Patterns is their debut album, released in 2007. Beautiful music, highly recommended!
De la Mancha is a Swedish band formed in 2003. A shared admiration for groups like Red House Painters, Sigur Rós, Led Zeppelin and My Bloody Valentine set out a general direction for the band. Atlas is their debut full-length album, an outstanding piece of work! Highly recommended!
Destroyalldreamers is an instrumental shoegaze band from Montreal, Canada. Through the use of numerous signal path alterations, namely effect pedals, they build ever higher walls of sound - coupled with solid songwriting - to create beautiful, lush soundscapes. This is their second full-length album! Really good!
Alcest is a French band created by Neige (also in Amesoeurs, Peste Noire and Forgotten Woods) in early 2000. He began writing songs on his own but a few months afterwards Argoth (bass) and Famine from Peste Noire (lead guitar) joined him and his solo project became a real band. Beginning as a raw black metal, Alcest later became a vessel for Neige's "memories of another world" as the band evolved into his solo-project. His music now draws more comparison to other genres such as shoegaze and post-rock. This is his debut full-length album, released in 2007. Really beautiful music!
Pacific UV formed in Georgia, USA, in 1998. Their style is frequently categorized as utilizing elements of dream-pop, post-rock and shoegaze. This is their second full-length album; it has become very successful since its release in 2008. Beautiful! Highly recommended!
Halley was a band from Austin, Texas, formed in 1998 and disbanded in 2005. This is their first (and final) album, released in 2002. Their music covers everything from noisy pop, with the opening song bombarding the listener with a barrage of trumpets and trombones, to drum machine based arrangements, heavy noisy rock, and a waltz, to the final moments of an 11 minute song ending the record complete with a choir, strings, horns and a harp to finish off the solid structure of sound. Really really good!
