Slay Tracks » Shoegazing

A pretty great track off Bailterspace’s shoegaze/noise album Robot World (1993). Can’t say I know much about these guys but I’ve always thought this album is one of the high points in terms of pure noise combined with melody.

I don’t know about you guys, but over here on the east coast it’s dark, it’s rainy, and it’s cold. Since it isn’t quite the weekend yet, let’s go with it. Here’s a dark, noisy, plodding number off of Swirl’s 1994 release, The Last Unicorn. Don’t be fooled by the name of the album. This … Continued

Wow so the past month has been pretty slow here on The Tracks. I blame global warming for my general state of lethargy. Anyway, I’m going to ease back into things with a quick track by one of my favorite Shoegaze/Dream Pop acts, The Autumns. I think if I had to pick one song to … Continued

“If My Bloody Valentine’s sound is like chainsaws under water, then Medicine is like chainsaws cutting through steel.” Can’t remember where I read that quote but it’s incredibly apt. Brad Laner and company crafted some of the noisiest, most ear-piercing sounds of the early 90’s, yet they also managed to work in enough melody to … Continued

Though Starflyer 59’s debut album, Silver (1994), came out just a couple years after the initial wave of Shoegazers had died out — Slowdive, MBV, Ride, Lilys had all broken up or started transitioning into Brit-pop — it brought a somewhat bleak ambience to a genre that had written some of the best pure pop songs … Continued

With Scott’s Thursday Throwback series fast becoming an internet sensation, I thought I’d try to ride his coattails with a series of my own called Shoegazing. Every Sunday(ish) I’ll post a song from the sometimes noisy, sometimes melodic, but always ethereal genre of Shoegaze. I’ll be pretty liberal in the definition applied to the term, with … Continued