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The dreamy soundscapes of Speck Hill first took shape in Brooklyn, NY, where founding members Karl Briedrick (guitar) and Marie-Claire Balabanian (vocals, bass) held their first rehearsals in 2005. Causing the vocals of Mazzy Star’s Wish Sandoval as well as the lush orchestrations of space rock and roll, the music …

Mixing dreamy indie rock and roll guitars with coed vocals and lush washes of appear, Blackstrap certainly are a shoegaze-inspired quintet from Stockholm, Sweden. Founded in 2001 by frontman Jonatan Westh and organist Maria Lindén, the group crafted its audio for just two years before liberating a debut recording, Ghost …

The Morning hours After Women are an Australian-bred band whose music is part psychedelia, part shoegaze, and part indie pop, fusing components of these disparate styles to generate striking, grand-scale aural scenery. The Morning hours After Girls had been shaped in 2003 by Sacha Lucashenko and Martin B. Sleeman, a …

Called after Astrid Lindgren’s dream novel, The Brothers Lionheart, Marcus Førsgren (b. 11 Sept 1981, Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway; acoustic guitar/vocals) and Audun Storset (b. 18 March 1982, Molde, Møre Og Romsdal, Norway; body organ) shaped this Norwegian, body organ fuelled act in 1999, fusing upbeat psychedelic pop with components that …