In 2024, the Brooklyn shoegaze band Crate released exactly one song, "Julia," and we called it perfect. In 2025, they only released one more, "Necklace," and we liked that one too. This year, new Crate music started trickling out, and now the floodgates are open: The band's self-titled debut LP is out today.
Produced by the band's Cody Hudgins and Gift's TJ Freda, Crate weaves the textures of classic shoegaze and slowcore into songs that shimmer and roar, languish and take flight. Songwriters Hudgins and Ezra Engler ensure there's substance beneath the gorgeous veneer, though the sheer beauty of the sound itself is enough to elicit an emotional response
It's an album worth celebrating, and we'll do just that next month in Brooklyn. Stereogum is presenting Crate's album release show Dec. 4 at ErF Studios with support from Whisper Doll, Club Ecology, and Nettle. Get tickets here, and stream the album below.
Crate is out now on Good English. Buy it here.
