A Beginner's Guide to Japanese Shoegaze

[@curealmy]

spotify playlist of the songs i mention here: open.spotify.com/playlist/18fkzRQDldbtGWrgvKGJSW?si=052cd6990f0e4ccb

[@alina9843]

my dead gf is insanely good😭😭 every single track makes me lose all senses of reality

[@hokkaidosnow6643]

I live in Japan and listening to "Night is Young" or "I Want You By My Side" while walking at night is ethereal.

[@scarv7544]

Night is young is genuinely ethereal

[@iceman3269]

Best genre of Japanese Music! Personally I'd always include Kinoko Teikoku, given how big and influential they are, even though they kindda moved away from shoegaze. But look up "Kinoko Teikoku - 東京 (Tokyo) (Live)" on youtube, it's just such a great recording.

[@noone-pg4lr]

Yes I love that band too bad I found them during quarantine and they had already disbanded by then

[@Jakeb_prince]

Ok, I have found the best side of youtube

[@sagu7241]

hoping you talk about mass of the fermenting dregs on the next video, absolutely love how they manage to fit that sweet high-pitched voice into their heavy riffs and how Natsuko Miyamoto is able to sing in such a melancholic way

[@curealmy]

i am going to see them live next week (and might make a video about it? maybe??)

[@sagu7241]

@@curealmy so cool, I whish they come to Argentina in the near future

[@poplar1376]

The opening and the song that followed on kurayamisaka' first ep is one the best shoegaze song on 2023

[@jg6551]

your thoughts on yuragi are hilarious and I 100% agree. Japanese shoegaze is so damn interesting

[@cloudjolie]

I love japanese shoegaze❤❤❤

[@noone-pg4lr]

Does anyone remember kinoko tekikoku

[@curealmy]

i do!!!!

[@ashinygiratina1519]

Definitely should’ve mentioned Coaltar of the Deepers, since they’re basically the originators of J-Gaze.

[@curealmy]

yeah they rule too

[@ForTracyHyde]

💙

[@arizona_iced_out_boy]

Hugh actually had no idea about the connection to Ray. I saw them live at a small Fennel(Bassist of Tricot's solo project) and Toddle(guitarist of number girl) show. Didn't realize they were idol girls until they came up, but it def makes sense how they fit. Their music has a lot of shoegaze and post-punky tracks that they dance/sing to. Needless to say, they actually ripped a lot harder than anyone in the audience expected. Will also mention kurayamisaka is popping off in Japan. Their shows sell out in Tokyo pretty fast right now. Just a random side note, this is how I got into studying Japanese which eventually ended up with me moving to Japan. Yeah sure, weabed out my mind (still am), but the underground japanese music scene has so much killer stuff going on. Kind of became a situation of fuck it, let's learn this damn language. Been here for 8 years, don't see myself moving back to the US. Tokyo kind of sucks to live in, but the music scene is hands down the best music scene in the world I think.

[@st1ckez]

great video, yuragi's bedside was what got me into shoegaze

[@scarv7544]

While ‘for you, adroit it but soft’ isnt my favourite album ever, I absolutely adore ‘While My Waves Wonder’ i think that song is beautiful

[@curealmy]

i don't remember if i say it in this video but i rlly like that one, underneath it all, and the closing track and i strongly dislike every other song on it

[@kotonechan4633]

Tokyo Shoegazer is really good. I can’t describe how much I love this band.

[@reilover9990]

i’m my dead gf biggest fan. i’m my dead gf final boss

[@alina9843]

Also I think you missed something major- 'tokenainamae' their notion is adolescent nostalgia and you can feel the angst in all the songs

[@curealmy]

tokenainamae is good yeah

[@lemonbeverage]

i think one of my favorite japanese shoegaze bands is probabaly asobi seksu. have most of their cd's and love them. they fell off a bit towards the end of their career but their range of dreamy airy shoegaze to hardcore ear blasting noise walls is amazing.

[@g0th_core...]

One thing that got me into japanesse shoegaze is me discovering new artists in my recommended artists on spotify until i feel down a rabbit hole of underground shoegaze bands.

[@marmalade8344]

a very important addition would be honeydip, they’re the origins of jp shoegaze and they came only a few years after the big names (slowdive, mbv, cocuteau twins)

[@eumza2]

binge watching your videos 👍,very nice video👍. love kurayamisaka. also im glad you are doing vocaloid shoegaze, i cant wait for that

[@deadpool5980]

great video man thank you❤️

[@shoegazoooo]

彼は音楽の批評を綺麗な言葉でできていて尊敬する！もっとシューゲイズの良さを広めていきたいよね

[@basementogremfontheline5363]

That's a based video, thank you

[@AleX3derS]

I love MDG!! other bands as cool as them are plastic girl in closet and tokenai namae

[@mellow8176]

woooo japanese shoegaze!!!

[@Kumo2k]

Really good bands listed here. I was just a bit confused on why you would mention Tokyo Shoegazer before Coaltar of the Deepers? Tokyo Shoegazer did some covers of COTD's work as an ode to the band. Seems like a missed oppertunity not putting them on the list...

[@curealmy]

bc i limited this to 5 artists and i personally like tokyo shoegazer more

[@Kumo2k]

@@curealmy Fair enough... Either way, Much love for putting people on to Jrock and Jgaze. These genres deserve a lot more attention then they currently do. Keep at it

[@chad_dogedoge]

Actually, Japanese Alternative Rock was underated. The first Japanese Shoegaze/Postrock/Dream/Ethereal band Asobi Sekso , Pastel Blue , and Matyoshka

[@ASIAN_KUNG-FU_GENERATION]

Isn't Supercar famous outside of asia? In Korea, the most famous Japanese shoegaze band is Supercar and Yuragi.

[@curealmy]

a little but not as much as something like my dead girlfriend or tokyo shoegazer

[@Megarenegade666]

What about Mass of fermenting dregs?

[@curealmy]

they arent shoegaze

[@maazwaseem8313]

would late MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS count as shoegaze?

[@curealmy]

nah

[@yungfiend6830]

Tbh I don’t agree with you’re review of Tokyo shoegazer. They’re good but I don’t think every shoegaze band’s guitars should sound like them. I’d get sick of shoegaze pretty quick tbh. I like the way Coaltar of the Deepers does it, Narasaki is so underrated and influential in the scene.

[@bobloxbacondabest]

wheres kinoku teikoku????????

[@bigboy2217]

No kinoko teikoku sad!

[@nelzyr]

yep but they moved on with the shoegazes, i really liked them and their slow hopeless romantic songs and Sato's voicee aghh i hope they make one more album

[@bigboy2217]

@@nelzyr they disbanded :(

[@nelzyr]

@@bigboy2217 yeah ;(

[@davimag2071]

​@@nelzyrbut they should definitely be mentioned. Kinoko was one of the best Shoegaze and Alt Rock bands from Japan in the 2010's

[@flumpbeedumpis]

4:58 i STRONGLY disagree, the best song on the album is incarnation of pessimism