The post The Shoegaze Revival in 10 Songs appeared first on Consequence. In a way, they were right. The fervor around shoegazers — a title given to bands with this specific, ethereal sonic style, who ...

Japanese metal/shoegaze veterans Coaltar of the Deepers (who Hazing Over fka Shin Guard recently covered and namdropped as an influence on their new EP Pestilence) resurfaced in 2018 with the ...

Straddling the boundary between discordance and serenity, Rude Films contrast light and dark to craft alt-rock that is ...

Fans of shoegaze / heavy crossover may want to turn their attention to Charlotte, NC’s Fake Eyes, who showed off a strong Hum influence on their 2018 demo and 2019 promo, and who are pretty open about ...

Shoegaze has become such a widespread generic descriptor, it’s hard to gather much from it beyond its inherent connotations of “washy, reverb-y, possibly loud electric guitars.” For instance, it ...

For a long time, Zachary Cole Smith has wanted to make what he calls a “political shoegaze record.” As you might expect, this was not an easy assignment. First, there were the inherent limitations of ...

Wisp’s debut EP Pandora might be the most audacious shoegaze release of 2024, simply because it exists. After all, what’s a greater risk than putting reality in competition with a narrative developed ...

Shoegaze has become a buzzword in the last decade or so, describing any music with a swirling, surreal, glimmering sound. Starting as a predominantly U.K.based movement that later migrated to the U.S.

The etymology of "shoegaze" remains to this day an open question. Coined at some point in the mid to late '80s by an overzealous British music press, the term rapidly became used to describe a wildly ...

teens and the obsessive gearheads. It united them both with intensely emotional songs and a stage full of stompboxes. Here are ten of the genre's best albums. Swervedriver were the adrenaline of ...

This more modern gem of shoegaze albums comes from South Korean musician Parannoul. To See The Next Part Of The Dream has all the elements of a gorgeous shoegaze record, but with a few added ...

Every music genre has two things in common: 1) No two people agree on its precise boundaries; 2) Artists dislike being labeled as such. Shoegaze is no different. It’s a particularly unusual genre in ...