I won’t be around tomorrow, so I made y’all a present: a free, downloadable, 21-track shoegaze mix … you have no idea how hard it was to not type “tape” just now.
Anyway, clicking the link above will let you download said mix as fast as your surrounding Internet ether allows, without fear of identity theft or virus-ridden porno pop-ups.
Now, there wouldn’t be much point in loading this folder up with a lot of Loveless tracks and bonus-disc Ride material and so forth: most of you likely own and abuse that stuff already. I was interested in curating a collection absent those titans of the scene. I wanted bands that toiled in the shadows of those guys, groups that dipped their toe in the sound once or twice to incredible effect, acts that would later morph into A Place To Bury Strangers (that’d be Skywave), people who took the genre in weird and lovely directions: the unusual suspects. Of course, I couldn’t resist throwing my favorite Cocteau Twins song on as well, if only because people forget how blissed-outedly perfect they were.
So don’t expect any Lush or Swervedriver or Chapterhouse or Swirlies. Their legacies are sealed. These are forgottens and up-and-comers and under-talked-abouts and fizzled-outers with effects pedals and something to prove.
Here’s what you’ll find:
1. Flying Saucer Attack /// “Coming Home”
2. School Of Seven Bells /// “My Cabal”
3. Bailter Space /// “X”
4. Dirty On Purpose /// “Your Summer Dress”
5. A Sunny Day In Glasgow /// “(Cult Of) The Cemetary Flowers (Mandolin Version)”
6. Bowery Electric /// “Head On Fire”
7. The Legends /// “Turn Away”
8. Working For A Nuclear Free City /// “So”
9. Cocteau Twins /// “Fotzepolitic”
10. Guitaro /// “Find You Out (Part 4)”
11. Secret Shine /// “Suck Me Down”
12. Spiny Anteaters /// “Tripping Girl”
13. The Boo Radleys /// “Firesky”
14. Swallow /// “Sugar Your Mind”
15. Jesu /// “Can I Go Now”
16. Lovesliescrushing /// “Youreyesimmaculate”
17. Drop Nineteens /// “Delaware”
18. Cranes /// “September”
19. Skywave /// “Wear This Dress”
20. Crystal Castles /// “Tell Me What To Swallow”
21. 93 Million Miles From The Sun /// “To The Sky (Parallax Mix)”
