“Shoegaze” Reviews

Breather has a rich atmospheric sound that’s anchored down and energized by its darker currents.

Indeed, you really can lose yourself in this.

Harding makes no bones about his desire to make music of only the most gossamer nature, and over the course of 37 minutes, he makes very convincing arguments for his claim.

It’s beautiful and swirling dreamy chords with beautiful female vocals, much like My Bloody Valentine.

Despite the album’s fairly minimal nature, there’s something vast and alien about these songs.

This album is intensely both weird and cool.

Shelflife have gathered bands from all around the world to create a soundtrack for sunny days with the occasional rain shower.

It’s this dichotomy between the worldliness and the spirituality in their songs that makes Lift To Experience’s music so interesting to me.

The Swells have heart, but they just don’t inject enough of it into their music.

Simply put, this album reaffirms all that’s good and golden with pop music.

There are those times when, within the first 30 seconds of listening to a new CD, you know you’re listening to something truly special.

A noisy space album filled with feedback, experimental reverb, eerie electronics, and soft vocals that should please any My Bloody Valentine fan.

It’s pretty obvious where The Waterfall Effect derives its sound, but it does so without sounding terribly derivative.

I mean, you name the shoegaze accoutrement, they’ve got it.

All in all, a pleasant-sounding enough EP, but nothing that will probably blow your socks off.

I could easily see Fold Zandura blowing away many of the “established” Christian “modern rock” acts.

This was Slowdive’s swan song, and a gorgeous one at that.

Souvlaki is Slowdive’s best collective effort, funneling the atmospherics of their previous efforts into a more cohesive package.

My first introduction to Slowdive, and an album that left such an impact on me that I still compare new albums to it today.