Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. It sounds like looking out at a half-frozen Lake Michigan and trying to find where the lake ends and where the sky begins, except you can’t. These shows slowly led to dodgy pub gigs, and culminated in the creation of their debut album, lowercase. We don’t have any upcoming events for this artist right now. But not a single moment is frustrating, it’s comforting, it’s romantic. Bluetile Lounge, for me, was the sonic equivalent of a chase dream, glacial in their pace, never-ending. Influenced by the arising slowcore bands of the US, the band was characterized by slow … In true 90s fashion, the band only put out two releases, both beautiful from start to finish. Formed in 1991, the group … A din of positive critical clamor generated enough buzz to land them slot at Australia…, Formed in Perth, Western Australia in 1991, Bluetile Lounge underwent a lengthy incubation period in order to perfect their singular sound, waiting a full two years later to debut, and even then only in the most intimate, living-room settings. Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. And for me, that’s where Blue Tile Lounge comes in. Formed in Perth, Western Australia in 1991, Bluetile Lounge underwent a lengthy incubation period in order to perfect their singular sound, waiting a full two years later to debut, and even then only in the … The brief existence of slowcore music is the perfect example for the ephemeral of rock music in the pre-internet era. It is almost post-rock like in it’s layering, it is almost emo in it’s sad, melancholy chords. Go directly to shout page. Released in lat…. Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. These shows slowly led to dodgy pub gigs, and cul…, Formed in Perth, Western Australia in 1991, Bluetile Lounge underwent a lengthy incubation period in order to perfect their singular sound, waiting a full two years later to debut, and even then only in the most intimate, living-room settings. As winter comes to the beautiful town of Evanston, I recommend listening to this band, not just for the beautiful music that it spawned but for the sad fact that without the proper PR that bands in the mainstream have, music as skillfully constructed as this, as wholesome as this, can simply disappear from our collective knowledge, never to be heard again. The vocals carry the songs in a sense that is almost literal – they mark changes with their desolate melodies, they blend the guitar parts in with each other. When Codeine signed to Subpop and Red House Painters had become famous enough to have become a staple in the conversations of indie and alternative music, for a brief moment, it seemed like slowcore had come to stay. Characterized by the slow drums, desolate sounding guitars, building post-rock like structures, reverby vocals – in many ways slowcore was an amalgamation of rock music in the nineties.

Released in late 1995 on the Summershine label via the recommendation of Low guitarist Alan Sparhawk, the album was distributed in the US by Sub Pop. Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. Influenced by the arising slowcore bands of the US, the band was characterized by slow building drums and guitars, building up the tension as walls of sound and suddenly dropping back down to a slower, droning section. It is easy to label the 90s as a period of time defined by the big names at the time but I argue that the music of the time is best represented by the bands we’ve never heard – the bands that only existed in the memories of those who happened to be at the show, bands that only existed in limited-run LPs that went out of pressing as the labels became defunct, bands that didn’t happen to be at the right place at the right time. Echoing the sounds of bands like Galaxie 500 and Codeine, Perth, Australia's Bluetile Lounge crafts an expansive, sublime style that marks out giant landscapes in the mind. Leave feedback, Formed in Perth, Western Australia in 1991, Bluetile Lounge underwent a lengthy incubation period in order to perfect their singular sound, waiting a full two years later to debut, and even then only in the most intimate, living-room settings. Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. Bluetile Lounge stopped being a band in 1998 and have had their music distributed by Sub-Pop in the US. For those unfamiliar with the term, slowcore is a misnomer – it is far from ‘hardcore’ sonically and perhaps is only united by the ambiguous DIY nature of the bands that reluctantly accepted the term. A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site.