History Main / Shoegazing

* Music/{{Faunts}} (blends with DreamPop)

In the 2000s the genre saw something of a resurgence with the indie crowd. In 2001 a band called Music/MyVitriol released an album called ''Finelines'' which is given credit with starting the shoegaze movement of the 2000s called '''Nu Gaze''' (Coined by Som Wardner himself from My Vitriol). Bands such as Music/SilversunPickups, Asobi Seksu, Music/{{Deerhunter|Band}}, Blonde Redhead, and The Big Pink were bands that followed this new movement. There were also DarkerAndEdgier bands that used the shoegazing sound to oppress or disquiet rather than uplift, like Music/SingaporeSling (the first band to make a career out of this "darker" sound), Music/APlaceToBuryStrangers, The Horrors, Music/{{Jesu}}, ''Have a Nice Life,'' and ''The Angelic Process.'' There are also a few metal bands that have adopted some elements of shoegaze as well (such as Alcest, Deafheaven, Music/{{Jesu}} again, arguably Nachtmystium), most of them usually being placed as metalgaze or just post-metal. Then there are bands such as Music/{{M83}}, Bowery Electric, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, and Music/SweetTrip who have aimed towards more electronic experimentation with shoegaze. Yeah...it's been incorporated into almost everything.

The following are some artists that were part of the first wave shoegazers:

Second wave or "Nu Gaze" bands:

DarkerAndEdgier shoegaze bands:

"Metalgaze" bands:

* Music/{{Swervedriver}} (more rock oriented than other bands in the wave)

* Music/{{Swervedriver}}

However, most people point to the EP ''You Made Me Realise'' by the Anglo-Irish band Music/MyBloodyValentine in 1988. They are also responsible for the most critically acclaimed and well-regarded shoegazing album, ''Music/{{Loveless}}'' (1991), which is seen as the ''essential'' shoegazing album for [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic damn good reason]]. Other great bands in the genre include: Music/{{Slowdive}}, Music/{{Ride}}, Music/{{Lush}}, Music/KitchensOfDistinction, Music/CatherineWheel, Chapterhouse, Moose and Music/TheVerve, the final being a fusion of shoegazing, space rock and psychedelic rock. The only problem with these bands is that they suffer from a pretty bad case of OvershadowedByAwesome thanks to the pervasive presence and legendary reputation of the aforementioned My Bloody Valentine.[[note]]You might say "But I know The Verve!", but they never completely fit in with the scene and had a bit of a GenreShift on the way to success.[[/note]]

In the 2000s the genre saw something of a resurgence with the indie crowd. In 2001 a band called Music/MyVitriol released an album called ''Finelines'' which is given credit with starting the shoegaze movement of the 2000s called '''Nu Gaze''' (Coined by Som Wardner himself from My Vitriol). Bands such as Music/SilversunPickups, Asobi Seksu, Music/{{Deerhunter|Band}}, Blonde Redhead, and The Big Pink were bands that followed this new movement. There were also DarkerAndEdgier bands that used the shoegazing sound to oppress or disquiet rather than uplift, like Music/SingaporeSling (the first band to make a career out of this "darker" sound), Music/APlaceToBuryStrangers, The Horrors, Music/{{Jesu}}, ''Have a Nice Life,'' and ''The Angelic Process.'' There are also a few metal bands that have adopted some elements of shoegaze as well (such as Alcest, Deafheaven, Music/{{Jesu}} again, arguably Nachtmystium), most of them usually being placed as metalgaze or just post-metal. Then there are bands such as Music/{{M83}}, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, and Music/SweetTrip who have aimed towards more electronic experimentation with shoegaze. Yeah...it's been incorporated into almost everything.

However, most people point to the EP ''You Made Me Realise'' by the Anglo-Irish band Music/MyBloodyValentine in 1988. They are also responsible for the most critically acclaimed and well-regarded shoegazing album, ''Music/{{Loveless}}'' (1991), which is seen as the ''essential'' shoegazing album for [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic damn good reason]]. Other great bands in the genre include: Music/{{Ride}}, Music/{{Lush}}, Music/KitchensOfDistinction, Chapterhouse, Music/{{Slowdive}}, Music/CatherineWheel, Moose and Music/TheVerve, the final being a fusion of shoegazing, space rock and psychedelic rock. The only problem with these bands is that they suffer from a pretty bad case of OvershadowedByAwesome thanks to the pervasive presence and legendary reputation of the aforementioned My Bloody Valentine.[[note]]You might say "But I know The Verve!", but they never completely fit in with the scene and had a bit of a GenreShift on the way to success.[[/note]]

While the genre itself was a mostly British thing, there were a few shoegazey bands to emerge out of the USA, like Music/Starflyer59, Medicine, The Veldt, Swirlies, and Drop Nineteens. It was also regarded as a significant influence on Music/TheSmashingPumpkins and Music/{{Deftones}}, among other successful '90s and '00s bands. That's not to say shoegazing wasn't popular in the United States; My Bloody Valentine, Lush, Catherine Wheel, Ride, and Kitchens of Distinction all had hits on ''Billboard'''s Modern Rock chart in the early 1990s. However, the genre's popularity wouldn't last long there due to the rise of grunge and its offshoot genres.

Shoegazing collapsed in the midst of a mid-1990s HypeBacklash, its bands increasingly seen as privileged, self-indulgent middle-class kids with "nothing to say" and being replaced by working-class {{Britpop}} bands ([[MeetTheNewBoss who then immediately became filthy rich, privileged, self-indulgent and had nothing to say]]). MBV went into a hiatus, resurfacing with a reunion tour in 2008 and ''finally'' releasing a new album in 2013 after twenty years of DevelopmentHell. Music/{{Lush}} pulled an abrupt GenreShift into Britpop to some success and broke up after their drummer killed himself. Music/{{Slowdive}} stuck to their guns, releasing the uncommercial NewSoundAlbum ''Pygmalion'' before evolving into the folk-rock/DreamPop band Mojave 3. Music/CatherineWheel went into slowly changing their own style and broke up in 2000. Ride broke up in 1996 after failing to adapt to {{Britpop}}.

Has nothing to do with MaleGaze or FemaleGaze. Not to be confused with Ethereal Wave, a LighterAndSofter subgenre of GothRock.

* Music/Starflyer59 (but only for their first few albums)

[[caption-width-right:300:[[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner "It's like they don't really even care about me. Like when they played that song called 'We don't really even care about you'?"]]]]

Has nothing to do with MaleGaze or FemaleGaze. Not to be confused with Ethereal Wave, a subgenre of GothRock.

Has nothing to do with MaleGaze or FemaleGaze.

In the 2000s the genre saw something of a resurgence with the indie crowd. In 2001 a band called Music/MyVitriol released an album called ''Finelines'' which is given credit with starting the shoegaze movement of the 2000s called '''Nu Gaze''' (Coined by Som Wardner himself from My Vitriol). Bands such as Music/SilversunPickups, Asobi Seksu, Music/{{Deerhunter}}, Blonde Redhead, and The Big Pink were bands that followed this new movement. There were also DarkerAndEdgier bands that used the shoegazing sound to oppress or disquiet rather than uplift, like Music/SingaporeSling (the first band to make a career out of this "darker" sound), Music/APlaceToBuryStrangers, The Horrors, Music/{{Jesu}}, ''Have a Nice Life,'' and ''The Angelic Process.'' There are also a few metal bands that have adopted some elements of shoegaze as well (such as Alcest, Deafheaven, Music/{{Jesu}} again, arguably Nachtmystium), most of them usually being placed as metalgaze or just post-metal. Then there are bands such as Music/{{M83}}, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, and Music/SweetTrip who have aimed towards more electronic experimentation with shoegaze. Yeah...it's been incorporated into almost everything.

* Music/{{Deerhunter}}

While shoegazing can be influenced by PsychedelicRock (indeed, it's basically that genre taken UpToEleven), it was influenced by DreamPop's emphasis on sound over actual song, and indie NoiseRock bands such as Music/SonicYouth, Music/DinosaurJr, Music/TheJesusAndMaryChain, Music/Spacemen3 and The Music/VelvetUnderground.

The genre's first release can actually be pointed to the song "When You're Sad" by experimental dream pop band A.R. Kane (who would later produce the song "Pump Up the Volume" under the name M/A/R/R/S, alongside electronic band Colourbox), released in 1986. However, most people point to the EP ''You Made Me Realise'' by the Anglo-Irish band Music/MyBloodyValentine in 1988. They are also responsible for the most critically acclaimed and well-regarded shoegazing album, ''Music/{{Loveless}}'' (1991), which is seen as the ''essential'' shoegazing album for [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic damn good reason]]. Other great bands in the genre include: Music/{{Ride}}, Music/{{Lush}}, Music/KitchensOfDistinction, Chapterhouse, Music/{{Slowdive}}, Music/CatherineWheel, Moose and Music/TheVerve, the final being a fusion of shoegazing, space rock and psychedelic rock. The only problem with these bands is that they suffer from a pretty bad case of OvershadowedByAwesome thanks to the pervasive presence and legendary reputation of the aforementioned My Bloody Valentine.[[note]]You might say "But I know The Verve!", but they never completely fit in with the scene and had a bit of a GenreShift on the way to success.[[/note]]

* Lantlos (started out as post-black, but gradually downplayed the black metal elements and the metal elements in general)

** 1992 - ''Music/TheDeathOfCool''

* Music/{{Blur}} on their first album represent one of the aforementioned bands that straddled the line between Shoegazing and Madchester, but dropped the whole thing with their next album to jump on the {{Britpop}} bandwagon. Once they reinvented themselves as a noisy art-rock band, some of their shoegazing influence started to reemerge on ''Blur'' and ''13''.

The genre's first release can actually be pointed to the song "When You're Sad" by experimental dream pop band A.R. Kane (who would later produce the song "Pump Up the Volume" under the name M/A/R/R/S, alongside electronic band Colourbox), released in 1986. However, most people point to the EP ''You Made Me Realise'' by the Anglo-Irish band Music/MyBloodyValentine in 1988. They are also responsible for the most critically acclaimed and well-regarded shoegazing album, ''Music/{{Loveless}}'' (1991), which is seen as the ''essential'' shoegazing album for [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic damn good reason]]. Other great bands in the genre include: Music/{{Ride}}, Music/{{Lush}}, Music/KitchensOfDistinction, Chapterhouse, Music/{{Slowdive}}, Music/CatherineWheel, Moose and Music/TheVerve, the final being a fusion of shoegazing, space rock and psychedelic rock. The only problem with these bands is that they suffer from a pretty bad case of OvershadowedByAwesome thanks to the pervasive presence and legendary reputation of the aforementioned My Bloody Valentine.[[note]]You might say "But I know The Verve!", but the thing is, they never completely fit in with the scene and had a bit of a GenreShift on the way to success.[[/note]]

The genre's first release can actually be pointed to the song "When You're Sad" by experimental dream pop band A.R. Kane (who would later produce the song "Pump Up the Volume" under the name M/A/R/R/S, alongside electronic band Colourbox), released in 1986. However, most people point to the EP ''You Made Me Realise'' by the Anglo-Irish band Music/MyBloodyValentine in 1988. They are also responsible for the most critically acclaimed and well-regarded shoegazing album, ''Music/{{Loveless}}'' (1991), which seen as the ''essential'' shoegazing album for [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic damn good reason]]. Other great bands in the genre include: Music/{{Ride}}, Music/{{Lush}}, Music/KitchensOfDistinction, Chapterhouse, Music/{{Slowdive}}, Music/CatherineWheel, Moose and Music/TheVerve, the final being a fusion of shoegazing, space rock and psychedelic rock. The only problem with these bands is that they suffer from a pretty bad case of OvershadowedByAwesome thanks to the pervasive presence and legendary reputation of the aforementioned My Bloody Valentine.[[note]]You might say "But I know The Verve!", but the thing is, they never completely fit in with the scene and had a bit of a GenreShift on the way to success.[[/note]]