Shoegaze Style Overview

Shoegaze Music Description

Shoegaze began as a British indie rock style which had an overwhelmingly loud sound, with long, droning riffs, waves of distortion, and cascades of . Vocals and melodies disappear into the walls of guitars, creating a wash of sound where no instrument is distinguishable from the other. My Bloody Valentine are an archetypal early shoegaze band.

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  Darklands
  The Jesus And Mary Chain
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  Isn't Anything
  My Bloody Valentine
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  Loveless
  My Bloody Valentine
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  Souvlaki
  Slowdive
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  So Tonight That I Might See
  Mazzy Star
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  Hurry Up, We're Dreaming.
  M83.*
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  m b v
  My Bloody Valentine

Shoegaze Artists

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  My Bloody Valentine
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  Ride
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  Slowdive
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  Nadja (5)
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  A Place To Bury Strangers
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  Bing Satellites
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  Vlimmer

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  You Trip Me Up
  The Jesus And Mary Chain
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  Look
  White Glove Test
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  16 Dreams
  Loop (3)
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  The New Record By My Bloody Valentine
  My Bloody Valentine
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  When You're Sad
  A.R. Kane
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  O Ocidente Infernal
  Pedro Ayres Magalhães
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  You Have Some Too.
  The Soup Dragons

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  Souvlaki
  Slowdive
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  Loveless
  My Bloody Valentine
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  Quique (Redux)
  Seefeel
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  Quique
  Seefeel
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  Slow Buildings 30th Anniversary Re:Masters
  Pale Saints
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  Preacher’s Daughter
  Ethel Cain
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  Voyager 1
  Verve*