Kevin Bronson on June 12th, 2012

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So much new music these days is reminiscent of the golden age of shoegaze that my heart fairly skips a beat when one of the golden-agers actually turn up. So it was a moment ago, when the new single from Bailterspace (sometimes rendered Bailter Space) popped into my email. The New Zealand/New York rockers rose to prominence on the legendary Flying Nun Records, and their three-records-in-three-years run (“Robot World,” “Vortura” and “Wammo,” all of which came out on Matador from 1993 to ’95) remains dizzying in today’s world. Their single “X” (1994) remains at No. 7 on the Unofficial Buzz Bands LA List of Greatest Shoegaze Anthems. Now, via Arch Hill Recordings in New Zealand and Fire Records in the U.S., Bailterspace is releasing its first album in 13 years, “Strobosphere” (due Aug. 21). The single “No Sense” shows them at their dissonant-yet-melodic best. Welcome back.

||| Download: “No Sense”

||| Also: After the jump, check out a video for “X” … no, really, do: