And the seeds of its effects driven wall of guitars were planted not just in the post-punk era, but in the stranger corners of glam rock, the experimental nature of krautrock, and the Velvet Underground’s embrace of noise. Slowdive’s Neil Halstead cites The Cure as an influence, not only in sound but in how Robert Smith maintained picture of stoic restraint onstage. Kane and My Bloody Valentine, though its seeds were planted decades earlier. Shoegaze took off in earnest in the late ’80s, with British bands such as A.R. And so it is with shoegaze, one of the most fruitful and inspired sectors of indie music in the past 40 years, awash in effects, dense layers of guitars, and an eye ever focused on the pedalboard. ![]() But the way that these things always go-choose your favorite absurdly named genre here-is eventual acceptance and celebration of someone’s once-sarcastic critique. And Lush’s Miki Berenyi called “shoegaze” a “slag-off” term, implying a kind of inertia on the part of the artist. ![]() In the early ’90s, British magazine Sounds published a review of a Moose live show, in which the term “shoegaze” was used to describe the manner in which singer Russell Yates had kept his eyes fixed on floor the whole time-supposedly because of lyric sheets he’d placed in front of him. It sounds almost like a joke, and in a sense it was.
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