Afterglow Echoplex

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Afterglow Echoplex - Episode Five

November 08, 2024 • Featuring: A Reminder, Bright Islands, Darkswoon, The First Eloi, The Galaxy Electric & Droog Mulholland, The Hydrogen Trees, KUZbeats, Mannequin Flowers, Lester O'Shea, Paper Shipwrecks, The Silver Doors, Sofa City, Soft No, Ten Million Lights, Vernons F • Season 1 • Episode 5

Welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze, dreampop, noise-rock, et al. and etc. collaborative mixtape podcast, featuring walls of squalls, seas of dreams and forests of feedback! This month's episode of the show features Soft No, Paper Shipwrecks, Yearn, Sofa City Sweetheart, The Hydrogen Trees, and much, much, MUCH more!

Each episode of the Afterglow Echoplex is a virtual 60-minute dubbed cassette tape made in direct collaboration with the underground, independent shoegaze and shoegaze-adjacent bands you hear here.

Side One
1. Sofa City Sweetheart "The Thing She Do"
2. Waves Crashing "Wish"
3. Darkswoon "Bloom Decay"
4. A Reminder "Another Day" (video)
5. The Hydrogen Trees "Afternoon Subsidence"
6. The Galaxy Electric & Droog Mulholland "Mystery Song"
7. Paper Shipwrecks "It Comes in Waves"
8. KUZbeats "The Way Back When"
9. Lester O'Shea "The Queen and Her Fool"
10. Vernons Future "Waxwings"

Side Two
1. Zenxith "Oh Hello, It's Me"
2. Bright Islands "Kick the Past"
3. The Silver Doors "Redeemer"
4. Ten Million Lights "Never Let Go" (video)
5. Mannequin Flowers "Heartbeat"
6. Soft No "Faker"
7. Yearn "Blackhole"
8. The First Eloi "Hide & Seek"

This podcast would not be possible without the contributions of the bands listed above. Please visit their BandCamp pages to show them some much deserved fawning praise in the form of purchasing their music, following their links, and (when possible) seeing them play live.

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Cover photography for this month's episode by BlueCalypso Photographs.

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Until next time, keep celebrating the scene!