“Shoegaze” Reviews

The Norwegian chanteuse’s sophomore album blends shoegaze, dream pop, and trip-hop to enchanting effect.

The Moscow-based post-punk/shoegaze outfit exits the stage in fine style with their final album.

The Chicago shoegazers’ four-EP set, now featuring previously unreleased demos, is a shining example of shoegaze pop par excellence.

The pairing of introspective lyrics and evolved sonics leads to a quality of reflection that’s unique in Slowdive’s catalog.

The Foundation revisits four of their classic songs with predictably strong results.

After three decades, the long-lost album from Ronnie and Jason Martin’s (Joy Electric, Starflyer 59) first band has finally been released.

On this rework of their 1994 debut, the Japanese band delivers a truly mercurial take on shoegaze rock.

The Moscow-based band walks the line between Cure-ish post-punk and shoegazer-y atmospherics.

The Moscow shoegazers return with ten tracks of brilliant shoegaze that’s hampered only somewhat by a muddy mix.

The Swedish duo evoke the universe’s vastness with a spell-binding blend of metal, shoegaze, goth, ambient, and electronica.

The Moscow quintet’s most recent release is a nice dive into the gloomier range of the shoegaze spectrum.

The band’s first release in a dozen years boasts a heavier, more expansive sound.

These songs move in directions that are more interesting than the simple “shoegaze + metal” equation implies.

More than just a simple nostalgia trip, the new full-length finds Slowdive building on their celebrated sound.

This gorgeous space-themed EP blends metal and shoegaze to stunning effect.

The Portland group conjure up a heady blend of goth, shoegaze, and psychedelia.

Lush’s first release in two decades contains nothing all that groundbreaking— but why would it need to?

You get the sense that Deafcult’s members love making this music, and they love making it as loud and raucous as possible.

Ceremony doesn’t bring anything new to the shoegaze formula; rather, they take the genre’s hallmarks and just turn them up way past 11.

A solid debut, as well as one of the best and most gripping shoegazer releases I’ve heard in months.