Shoegaze is a genre built on paradoxes: massive walls of sound yet deeply intimate, ethereal but crushingly heavy, nostalgic while forever forward-thinking. In the 90s, the UK had its undisputed titans—My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Slowdive—but across the pond, American bands were quietly (or maybe not-so-quietly) carving out their own take
Have you ever been caught in a daydream? Lost in a sound so hypnotic, so ethereal that it feels like you’re floating, to only then be hit with a wall of sound so thick it feels like you’re being crushed? If so, odds are you’ve stumbled upon the world of