What are specific, tangible things that make it stand apart? Is it the production? Lyrical themes? The type of effects used? What is Shoegaze?
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It’s a genre of music with its roots in early dream pop music. In the mid to late ’80s, mostly in the UK, there or a bunch of bands that were trying to imitate cocteau twins “shimmering” guitar effects and ethereal vocals that were heavily reverbed. The earliest shoegaze bands kind of come from that movement.
It originally referred to guitarists who were using lots of effects as they played, using their feet to alter the pedal boards live. Specifically the band moose was doing this.
Like any genre it really has a path forward that bleeds into lots of other genres like dream pop, Stoner Rock etc… I’m sure there’s a Wikipedia of all of the different bands but that probably changes weekly.
There’s a lot of music that sounds like shoegaze but people insist isn’t shoegaze. Shoegaze is the music that sounds like shoegaze that everyone agrees is shoegaze.
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