For Tracy Hyde is not your average Japanese shoegaze band. In Ethernity, the dream pop quintet defy genre and thematic expectations, openly taking on political themes and merging them with their classic ethereal sound to produce an album that is as uneasy as it is transcendental. For Tracy Hyde’s first three albums were geared more […]
I’ve known Soft Blue Shimmer for a relatively short amount of time (or forever if we’re considering 2020 time). My first exposure to them came from Gaby Chiongbian’s kaleidoscopic picture of the band playing the Echoplex way back in February (almost a lifetime ago). “Surely this band must sound as dreamy as Gaby’s picture,” I […]
Japanese quintet For Tracy Hyde is an ambitious group. Made up of eureka (vocalist, guitarist), Natsubot (guitarist, backing vocals), U-1 (guitarist), Mav (bass), and soukou (drummer), For Tracy Hyde always seem to be finding new ways to push their sounds to the limit. Since the release of their Shibuya-kei influenced debut album Film Bleu, the […]