If you were never really into any of the early shoegaze bands of the 90's now might be a pretty good time to delve into them. Cherry Red just reissued Chapterhouse's classic second release Blood Music which was given a new mix and it sounds great. Not only that but they threw in the Mesmerise EP and the We are the Beautiful single. If you find that to your liking Chapterhouse's first one (Whirlpool) was also reissued by Cherry Red a few months back. To my ears Blood Music started to take the whole genre in another direction and had a really exciting sound to it. I included the Mesmerise video below. Check it out.
Posted on 04/30/2008
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Nice one! love me the chapterhouse... i am a bit more familiar with Blood Music actually - but i did go through a phase of some heavy chapterhouse / loop / my bloody valentine listening a couple of years ago...
i like gazing at my shoes.
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Hey Lou, nice to see you back...I want to check into this further, but I have something playing that I don't have the heart to stop. (It's Kilgour's Feather in the Engine.) But I'll be back.
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Nice sounds... I lost the thread of shoegaze, though I had My Bloody Valentine and Jesus & Marychain records in the '80s, from there headed towards Flaming Lips ("Acid Rain"), a bit of Britpop - Blur, Kula Shaker, Inspiral Carpets and some electronica like Republica and Moby...
thanks for the push back in the direction towards dense heady sounds I like - but know almost nothing about.
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Pretty pleasant and redolent of Stone Roses -- or is it the other way around?
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You got it right Bartleby....although both bands were around at the same time you can see some Stone Roses influence in a few of their tracks. I think that Chapterhouse did take the melding of rock and dance music a lot further with Blood Music than the Roses ever did.