Welcome to the debut episode of the Afterglow Echoplex, a mixtape podcast featuring feedback-imbued melodies, gossamer vocals and glorious walls of crumbling distortion. Today's episode features Cherry Heaven, Holy Springs, softlightsymphony, Crimson Whisper, dayflower, and 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.

This inaugural episode of Afterglow Echoplex features:

Side One
1. dayflower "Big Blue"
2. A Deeper Heaven "Let Go"
3. Cherry Heaven "Sundazed"
4. Vagrant Daydreams "Blurred Indigo"
5. CONTRANISTAS "Telenovela"
6. Memories Fading "Left Behind"
7. LEAL "Don't Waste Your Summer Away"

Side Two
1. Guilt Shop "No Sugar"
2. Slow Salvation "Call a Friend"
3. Holy Springs "Surprise"
4. Crimson Whisper "Joshua's Gaze"
5. Salzig Noise "Ch'ai"
6. Reviser "Assassins"
7. softlightsymphony "Circling"
8. The Lost Boy "The Morning Sun (Simon Scott Remix)"

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 love in the form of buying their music, seeing them play live and following their links.

While you're at it, please rate and review this podcast on the podcast catcher of your choice. If you're in a band and would like to contribute a song of yours for consideration on a future episode of Afterglow Echoplex, please email a WAV or FLAC file to: afterglowechoplex@gmail.com

Keep celebrating the scene, you scene celebrators, you!

Afterglow Echoplex: A Shoegaze Mixtape Podcast.