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Frank Yang

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Semi-Retired music blogger. Posts junk at https://xitter.gq/t.co/7ZdJ02kXBZ, aka @_spaceecho. Tell me about your favourite flanger pedal

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Siouxsie & The Banshees, Live on Rockpalast – July 1981 - Space Echo

Siouxsie & The Banshees, Live on Rockpalast – July 1981 - Space Echo

Going with Siouxsie & The Banshees on Hallowe’en is obviously some kind of low hanging fruit but I have absolutely no problem with that. Especially when it means I get to post this entire 1981...

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Warpaint - "Stars" spaceecho.chromewaves.net/20…
Warpaint - "Stars" - Space Echo

Warpaint - "Stars" - Space Echo

We are somehow almost four and a half years on from the last Warpaint record, 2022’s Radiate Like This, and while they’ve not been completely out of sight – they played one show this year, their...

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Blurred City Lights -「Voyage」 spaceecho.chromewaves.net/20…
Blurred City Lights -「‪Voyage」 - Space Echo

Blurred City Lights -「‪Voyage」 - Space Echo

Nagoya’s Blurred City Lights are clearly continuing the run-up to their third record – you don’t get new band photos just for fun – but their second new single of the years isn’t spilling tea just...

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Neil Halstead @ La Blogothèque - June 2006 spaceecho.chromewaves.net/20…
Neil Halstead @ La Blogothèque - June 2006 - Space Echo

Neil Halstead @ La Blogothèque - June 2006 - Space Echo

As I was putting together posts to go along with the Mojave 3 reissues this Summer, I came across this video session that Neil Halstead did for French cinéma-vérité music documentarians La Blogothè...

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Robber Robber - "The Sound It Made" spaceecho.chromewaves.net/20…
Robber Robber - "The Sound It Made" - Space Echo

Robber Robber - "The Sound It Made" - Space Echo

In the before times, when we existed in the actual physical space we lived in and not in the endless screaming void of misinformation and FOMO that we call the internet, we learned about upcoming...

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Hammer Head Shark / Close to Void #5 spaceecho.chromewaves.net/20…
Hammer Head Shark / Close to Void #5 - Space Echo

Hammer Head Shark / Close to Void #5 - Space Echo

Tokyo’s Hammer Head Shark are gearing up to release a new EP entitled Air next month, but beyond that they haven’t offered up any more information like a track list or precise release date. They’ve...

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Slow Fiction - "Turning Down Flowers" spaceecho.chromewaves.net/20…
Slow Fiction - "Turning Down Flowers" - Space Echo

Slow Fiction - "Turning Down Flowers" - Space Echo

Slow Fiction sound like a lotta things; there’s all of shoegaze, post-punk, garage rock in there, but you wouldn’t even think about using one of those as a single descriptive adjective for them when...

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The Neverminds & Twinotter - "The Snow Will Catch Us Once Again" spaceecho.chromewaves.net/20…
The Neverminds & Twinotter - "The Snow Will Catch Us Once Again" - Space Echo

The Neverminds & Twinotter - "The Snow Will Catch Us Once Again" - Space Echo

Toronto’s Neverminds recently returned from their second Asian tour – impressive for a band that’s yet to release a full-length album – and one of the artifacts that followed them back was live...

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Blankenberge - "Pictures Of You" spaceecho.chromewaves.net/20…
Blankenberge - "Pictures Of You" - Space Echo

Blankenberge - "Pictures Of You" - Space Echo

Wednesday’s post sent me down a rabbit hole of tribute compilations that The Blog That Celebrates Itself had assembled over their lifespan and it’s quite impressive – very much the American Laundro...

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Plant Cell - "Shine" spaceecho.chromewaves.net/20…
Plant Cell - "Shine" - Space Echo

Plant Cell - "Shine" - Space Echo

There’s not much on Just For A Life, a tribute album to Slowdive curated by now-defunct shoegaze blog The Blog That Celebrates Itself, that would have caught my eye or ear when it was released in...

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Yndling - “Time Time Time (I’m In The Palm of Your Hand)" spaceecho.chromewaves.net/20…
Yndling - “Time Time Time (I’m In The Palm of Your Hand)" - Space Echo

Yndling - “Time Time Time (I’m In The Palm of Your Hand)" - Space Echo

Even if she didn’t make lushly icy dreampop that draws as much from the trip-hop scene of the ’90s as the shoegaze, Yndling – the musical project of Oslo’s Silje Espevik – would probably elicit those...

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Dabda - "Choo-Choo" spaceecho.chromewaves.net/20…
Dabda - "Choo-Choo" - Space Echo

Dabda - "Choo-Choo" - Space Echo

A lot of bands I cover here fit very well into genre pigeonholes, and a lot of those like being in those pigeonholes and a lot of their fans like them in those pigeonholes, and that’s all fine. But...

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Encarta 98 - "nada va a cambiar" spaceecho.chromewaves.net/20…
Encarta 98 - "nada va a cambiar" - Space Echo

Encarta 98 - "nada va a cambiar" - Space Echo

I’d like to think I’ve been reasonably diligent in covering music from non-English-speaking parts of the world, but my attention has been mainly focused on Asia and Europe. I think I’ve gone as far...

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The Radio Dept. - "The Worst Taste In Music" spaceecho.chromewaves.net/20…
The Radio Dept. - "The Worst Taste In Music" - Space Echo

The Radio Dept. - "The Worst Taste In Music" - Space Echo

If the return of The Radio Dept. to both the stage and the studio this year wasn’t cause enough for celebration, they’re also returning to record stores this year. Or more specifically, their second...

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揺れるは幽霊 -『From』 spaceecho.chromewaves.net/20…
揺れるは幽霊 -『From』 - Space Echo

揺れるは幽霊 -『From』 - Space Echo

The famous may be in Toronto right now for TIFF, but the otaku will be at The Horseshoe for the next two nights as this year’s edition of Next Music From Tokyo kicks off. The four-band lineup of...

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The Cure - "Cut Here" spaceecho.chromewaves.net/20…
The Cure - "Cut Here" - Space Echo

The Cure - "Cut Here" - Space Echo

For a discography as long and deep as The Cure’s, there’s surely going to be some missed gems but I’m quite surprised I’d never heard their 2001 single, “Cut Here” before it showed up in my algorithm...

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sadplanet - "do you?" spaceecho.chromewaves.net/20…
sadplanet - "do you?" - Space Echo

sadplanet - "do you?" - Space Echo

London quintet sadplanet threw their hats into the ring with a trio of singles spread out across 2024 but have waited until now to make their proper first statement via their debut EP Slowing Down,...

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Sad Lovers & Giants - "Asylum Town" spaceecho.chromewaves.net/20…
Sad Lovers & Giants - "Asylum Town" - Space Echo

Sad Lovers & Giants - "Asylum Town" - Space Echo

Most of the discourse around Sad Lovers & Giants hereabouts has focused on their earliest works and specifically the labyrinthine mess of singles, EPs, albums, and compilations that make finding and...

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きのこ帝国 / 夜が明けたら spaceecho.chromewaves.net/20…
きのこ帝国 / 夜が明けたら - Space Echo

きのこ帝国 / 夜が明けたら - Space Echo

The two stages of Kinoko Teikoku’s career are pretty clearly delineated into their indie era and their major label era, each covering three of their six total albums (though trainspotters would...

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死んだ僕の彼女 -『死んだ僕の彼女』 spaceecho.chromewaves.net/20…
死んだ僕の彼女 -『死んだ僕の彼女』 - Space Echo

死んだ僕の彼女 -『死んだ僕の彼女』 - Space Echo

I usually don’t have too much trouble deciding if I am going to title a post about non-English bands with their native language or the translations – I generally prefer the former because it’s more...

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