Nostalgist is a Seattle, Washington-based shoegaze/post-punk band with a love for film noir.
Here’s a blurry photo of Jeff listening over a rehearsal demo we just finished recording Friday evening. We’re currently in the planning stages of another release, which also involves one our favorite contemporary bands in the shoegaze scene. We’re also writing new material. Please do stay tuned.

Nostalgist is tremendously honored to be opening for Agalloch at Chop Suey in Seattle on Monday, April 15th.
We are excited to finally offer our 7”/tape debut, Monochromantic, on our very own new label, Nostalgium Directive.
Listen and download for however much you’d like here.
Buy the physical editions here.
Hearty thanks to anyone who has supported us. We appreciate your patience.
Photos of our first show, 1/10/2013 at the Highline in Seattle, courtesy of Liz Marx. Thanks to Dylan/the Highline, Luke the soundguy, our longtime friends Golden Gardens, our new friends The Pleasure Field, and every last person who came out.
Romeo the Nostalgi-cat would like to recommend you head to Neon Sigh’s BLISSFEST in Chicago next weekend to see greatness such as Lovesliescrushing and our comrades Golden Gardens, and that if you do, seek Asa out for these free, hand-assembled promotional singles from the EP.
EP release news coming soon. If you’re heading to the phenomenal BLISSFEST in Chicago next month— which you should, because it features Airiel, Golden Gardens, Black Nite Crash and Lovesliescrushing— Asa will be there with free, hand-assembled promo CDs. Hannah Purmort killed it on the design front as always.
Edit: yeah, that extra “w” in the URL is bad…thanks to some kind folks who pointed it out, the stickers/covers will have the error removed.
Listen to “Illusory” here.
At long last! This is the streaming version of one of two songs on our upcoming 7”. Once everything is all set, the record will be an 100% free download as well as the obvious physical purchase. We hope you enjoy!
We’ve begun carefully but steadily tracking our first release, a 2-song record that will likely be pressed as a 7”. The songs will be freely downloadable.
The basic recordings are being engineered by our friend Carl in the Nostalgist compound (read: our practice space). Once they’re all done, they’ll then be re-amped, processed, mixed and mastered in the Bay Area by the humble and truly talented Jack Shirley, who did a beautiful job on Whirr’s 2010 Distressor EP.
We’re optimistic and will keep you posted.
