Some of my favourites from this year.
Outlander - Acts Of Harm (album)
Glixen - (everything they’ve put out this year)
Parannoul - Sky Hundred (album)
rare tobias funke sighting! miss the cover showdowns
building off the 2024 list:
DIIV - Frog in Boiling Water
Julie - My Anti-Aircraft Friend
Wishy - Triple Seven
TAGABOW - Swanlike
Midwife - No Depression in Heaven
and they both dropped in 2023 but Hotline TNT - Cartwheel and Wednesday - Rat Saw God are still on heavy repeat
edit: and for good measure here's my go-to "obscure" shoegaze band, Majesty Crush out of Detroit. put out some very cool (and dark) music in the 90s but got fucked by a bad record deal, faded away, and then years later guitarist David Stroughter was shot dead by police during a mental breakdown. RIP.
more on Majesty Crush:
https://www.thefader.com/2024/04/04/majesty-crush-butterflies-dont-go-away-interview