#shoegaze

#shoegaze

Nick Quan's song " Heavensafe," which runs big feelings through a bigger pedalboard, features a funny declaration: "I've turned to slop again." This past August, when the extraordinary guitarist released Warbrained, shoegaze might have been saying so, too. By then, its latest-and most puzzling-progeny was " cloud rock," a budding vanguard that subverted its central extremes: numbness first, and noise, if at all, second.

"When the song came to me it presented nearly fully formed: a pedaling bass line, a four part vocal harmony, an expansive soundscape," Kelley said in a press release. "Sometimes songs sound great in your head but then don't translate well into reality.

The legendary Talking Heads frontman finally returns with a new full-length studio album, which is his first since 2018's American Utopia and his ninth overall. Byrne, who collaborated on the album with New York City-based musical ensemble Ghost Train Orchestra, will likely showcase some new songs during a tour that includes three dates (Nov. 16-18) at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco (apeconcerts.com).

"It does freak me out when I sit back and, in retrospect, think about it," Chino Moreno says of Deftones' longevity.