San Francisco postpunks Male Gaze have a new record on Castle Face, touring West Coast (dates, streams)

by Bill Pearis

(photo by Daniel Roland Tierney [via])

San Francisco’s Male Gaze is the new band from Matt Jones of Blasted Canyons. He’s got a strong melodramatic delivery, which gives them a gothy slant, but their music definitely leans on the “punk” in post-punk. Male Gaze just released a seven-song mini-LP, Gale Maze, via John Dwyer’s Castle Face label (that Matt also helps run) and it’s a real bruiser, hooky and danceable but hard-hitting and sneery. There’s not a bum track on Gale Maze and it’s not miles, sonically, from the stuff coming out of Denmark lately. Stream two tracks and check out the video for “Mr. Wrong” (which plays off the band’s name), below.

Male Gaze are currently on a West Coast tour and play Seattle tonight. Let’s hope they head east soon. All dates are listed below.

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"MR. WRONG" BY MALE GAZE from N amesak E on Vimeo.

Male Gaze – 2015 Tour Dates
3/26 – Seattle WA @ Chop Suey
3/27 – Boise ID, @ Treefort Festival
3/29 – Sacramento CA, @ The Hideaway
4/14 – Santa Rosa CA, @ Arlene Francis Center w/ Wand
4/23 – Oakland CA, @ Leo’s w/ Crocodiles