“Shoegaze” Reviews

A fascinating paradox has been at work in the heart of lovesliescrushing’s music for two decades now.

Lovesliescrushing’s latest is a free download that serves as an excellent introduction to their abstract form of shoegazer ambience.

In the end, this feels very much like a “transition” record to me.

Au Revoir Borealis returns after a long hiatus with a lush, darkly beautiful album perfectly suited for these trying times of ours.

Disappear continues Ceremony’s ear-shredding track record with a collection of short-but-sweet tracks guaranteed to rend your speakers in two.

An album that is thoroughly obsessed with creating soundscapes as amorphous and spectral as possible — for better or worse.

Even among diehard shoegazer fans, Chorus might be something of an acquired taste, but it’s never less than fascinating.

Drone Dimension was well on their way to becoming a shining light in the “nu-gaze” movement.

There’s nothing wrong with diving recklessly headfirst into the sounds you love and pushing them as far as you can.

Rough around the edges but still full of lovely textures in which to lose yourself.

Where The Days Go’s most interesting tracks are those that let a little noise scuff up July Skies’ burnished sound a bit.

A blend of lush, euphoric pop music with lyrics full of existential despair, romantic failure, and wistfulness.

These songs are composed as much of feedback, distortion, and tape hiss as they are chords and melodies.

Rocinate is not without its weaknesses, but those only come as a result, I think, of being too ambitious.

The lyrics on I Will Burn Your Winter come to the forefront, with evocative and impassioned results.

A nice compilation that shows off the Japanese shoegaze scene.

Scott Sinfield’s gorgeous atmospherics are sometimes undone by some nondescript programming.

Stellarscope do a fine, fine job of blending the atmospherics inherent to the genre with a nice pop sensibility.

The album often lacks focus, resulting in a disc that is just as spotty and uneven as its predecessor.

Ultimately, only hardcore fans of the band need to pick this up.