“Brazilian shoegaze” sounds like a subgenre that might be rattled off by a record collector in a High Fidelity-esque satire of hipster music nerds, in a list along with lo-fi post-bebop and early 21st century zydeco revival. Yet there’s a shoegaze lineage in Brazil, and Terraplana have been part of it for nearly a decade. Formed in 2017 in the southern city of Curitiba, the quartet has been more recently gaining traction internationally thanks to their 2023 debut album Olhar Pra Trás and a split with Shower Curtain, fellow dreamy Brazilians now stationed in New York. Natural, their sophomore LP out today, ought to put them on even the most casual underground rock fan’s radar.
