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Confirmation that Slowdive are in the studio working on their fifth album:
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/slowdive-are-in-the-studio-working-on-fifth-album/

This list of 24 artists Cocteau Twins influenced has a few surprises (Prince‽ Napalm Death‽) and some that will be no surprise at all (Beach House, Sigur Rós, a who’s-who of shoegaze):
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/cocteau-twins-vast-influence-lives-on-24-great-artists-theyve-inspired/

“As a Filipino-Australian, I found an unlikely home in the Indie music scene”, an article in SBS Voices:
https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/voices/culture/article/2020/09/10/filipino-australian-i-found-unlikely-home-indie-music-scene

Exciting news: Spunsugar, a young shoegaze/alternative-rock band from Malmö, are releasing their debut album next month:

https://spunsugar.bandcamp.com/album/drive-through-chapel

These guys are good, and sound pretty much as their name suggests they would.

Listening to The Softies’ “Holiday In Rhode Island”; perfect soundtrack for the autumnal chill.

http://thesofties.bandcamp.com/album/holiday-in-rhode-island-klp119

Here are my purchases from this Bandcamp Friday; all of these may be found in my collection, at https://bandcamp.com/anorakhighst)

Black Marble — I Must Be Living Twice (a covers EP from a New York band; including a Field Mice cover; https://blackmarble.bandcamp.com)

Bogdan Raczynski — Rave 'Till You Cry, Samurai Math Beats (glitchy kid606-esque breakcore and ambient electronics; https://bogdanraczynski.bandcamp.com/)

Cavern of Anti-Matter — In Fabric OST (Tim from Stereolab's kosmische/library-music score for a Peter Strickland film; https://cavernofanti-matter.bandcamp.com/)

Eyeliner — Drop Shadow (Luke Disasteradio's vaporwave project; https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/drop-shadow)

Harvey Williams — P is for Pop Music (an old-sk00l zine about pop music from the Sarah Records veteran, in PDF form alongside a MP3 of silence; https://harveywilliams1.bandcamp.com/album/p-is-for-pop-music)

The Just Joans — The Private Memoirs and Confessions of The Just Joans (indiepop from Glasgow; https://shop.fikarecordings.com/album/the-private-memoirs-and-confessions-of-the-just-joans)

Lacto-Ovo — Shoes & You, Tsunami Pop (Casiotone indiepop loungecore meets Bollywood surf-rock from late-90s/early-00s Melbourne; https://lacto-ovo.bandcamp.com/)

Laura MacFarlane — The Narrows (another home-recorded EP from Laura of Ninetynine; this time, guitar-based: https://lauramacfarlane.bandcamp.com/)

The Little Hands of Asphalt — Half Empty (wistful Norwegian indiepop; https://shop.fikarecordings.com/album/half-empty)

LULLATONE sample sets — CARDBOARD HARP sample set (https://lullatonesamplesets.bandcamp.com/)

PERTURBATOR — The Uncanny Valley (French synthwave; https://perturbator.bandcamp.com/album/the-uncanny-valley)

Seeming — The Birdwatcher's Guide to Atrocity (an industrial-adjacent response to the zeitgeist; https://seeming.bandcamp.com/)

Spunsugar — Run (crunchy shoegaze-pop with a 90s alternative feel from a young band in Malmö; https://spunsugar.bandcamp.com/)

Tangents — Timeslips (atmospheric electronic chamber-concrète from the Australian ensemble; https://tangents.bandcamp.com/)

THIBAULT — Or Not Thibault (the debut from Nicole of Minimum Chips' new band; https://thibaultband.bandcamp.com/)

Various Artists — Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy (a compilation to raise funds for helping counter voter suppression; https://goodmusic2020.bandcamp.com/)

Yo La Tengo - We Have Amnesia Sometimes (YLT's recent home jams; https://yolatengo.bandcamp.com/)

Nicole Thibault (from Minimum Chips)’s new band’s album is out today: http://thibaultband.bandcamp.com/album/or-not-thibault
File alongside: Stereolab, Electrelane

An interesting look at the Norwegian black metal scene, 30 years on, and its stylistic and aesthetic divergences; mentions Ulver, who are generally worth a listen.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/02/how-black-metal-grew-up-norway-ulver-enslaved-emperor-ihsahn?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

A previously unheard Cardiacs track, “Vermin Mangle”, will be released tonight on their Bandcamp:

https://thequietus.com/articles/28854-cardiacs-vermin-mangle

“The Whitey Album” by “Ciccone Youth” just got added to the Sonic Youth Bandcamp page:

https://sonicyouth.bandcamp.com/album/the-whitey-album

The bar I’m in* is playing Pet Shop Boys’ “Being Boring”, a track I hadn’t listened to literally in decades. That reminds me I should relisten to my PSB records.

* Mbargo, Hornstull, Stockholm

Late-90s/early-00s Melbourne indie legends Lacto-Ovo are now on Bandcamp; think Bollywood surf-rock meets Casio-on-an-ironing-board Stereolabby lounge grooves:

https://lacto-ovo.bandcamp.com/album/tsunami-pop

…now do Mid-State Orange next

The Reykjavík Grapevine has a detailed history of the Icelandic electronica group GusGus, from their 90s chilled-beats to today:

https://grapevine.is/mag/feature/2020/08/19/gusgus-the-impossible-band-25-years-of-intrigue-drama-and-music/

Blueboy - Temple from the original 4 track Demo sent to Sarah Records in 1991
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igFhVX2oy_g
Between the clunking drum machine, the gently rolling guitar arpeggios, the extended chords and Keith’s plaintive vocals, it’s 😘👌

Jónsi from Sigur Rós is recording with Elizabeth Fraser (!)
https://www.stereogum.com/2094755/jonsi-cannibal-feat-elizabeth-fraser/music/

Oooh, a new Spunsugar track: https://spunsugar.bandcamp.com/track/run-2

An unexpected article on Another Sunny Day’s “You Should All Be Murdered” in the Chicago Reader:
https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/another-sunny-day-sarah-records-harvey-williams-popkiss/Content?oid=81418956

This album of Rona-themed sexed-up electrofunk from Chromeo is 😘👌:

http://chromeo.bandcamp.com/album/quarantine-casanova

Is anybody who listened to shoegaze in the 90s/00s finding that, despite being sonically and structurally completely different, vaporwave hits many of the same buttons?