Shoegazing the Decade: Aberf's list
Shoegaze/dream pop and its derivatives that I found throughout the years of my music listening. Not a comprehensive list, however, just all the things that caught my attention. I'm gonna take 10 albums for each year, except 2014-2016 where I reserve 2 slots from each year for 2017. Also, beware that not everything here might accurately represent the respective genre and the list is 200% Objective. This list also includes EP. |
| 1 |  | Deerhunter
Halcyon Digest
2010 - a year for blackgaze. There are a lot of sick blackgaze releases this year. We'll see the albums.
Genre: Psych, Dream Pop, Indie Rock
Personal Tags: Unique, Flavorful
Barely any gaze in here compared to their other works tbh, but Halcyon Digest is definitely a highlight of its own. |
| 2 |  | Alcest
Écailles De Lune
2010
Genre: Blackgaze
Personal tags: Best of the Decade, Wintertime music
Hey, it's Alcest. This album is very cool. |
| 3 |  | Lantlos
.neon
2010
Genre: Blackgaze
Personal Tags: Neige wtf man
Hey, it's me again, Alcest. So basically, Neige did vocal in this, as if the previous album isn't enough. |
| 4 |  | Les Discrets
Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées
2010
Genre: Post-rock, Blackgaze
Personal Tags: Soft, breezy
Hey, it's me again, Neige. This time I'm just playing the bass in here. |
| 5 |  | Deftones
Diamond Eyes
2010
Genre: Alternative Metal, Gaze
Personal Tags: Why is there a shoegaze tag in this band?
Anyway, I feel some element of gaze in here definitely. Not too much of a fitting album for this list; however, I'm doing it for the bois of sput. |
| 6 |  | Whirr
Distressor
2010
Genre: Dreamgaze
Personal Tags: Essential (Best of its kind), sadboigaze, subdued
This EP/mini-album I think is one of the best starters for shoegaze in general. |
| 7 |  | Cold Body Radiation
The Great White Emptiness
2010
Genre: Blackgaze
Personal Tags: Nature blackgaze
The soundtrack to a rainstorm within a natural landscape. |
| 8 |  | Year of No Light
Ausserwelt
2010
Genre: Post Metal, Sludge, Doom, Shoegaze
Personal Tags: Musical Strangulation, Dense
Atmospheric to the max. It's the kind of music that somewhat makes it heavy for me to breathe |
| 9 |  | Wild Nothing
Gemini
2010
Genre: Dream Pop
Personal Tags: Playful, Straight, Forward
Most of the tracks in Gemini lack substances, and much for complexity, yet it doesn't exhaust you at all. One of the proofs that good music doesn't necessarily need complexity. |
| 10 |  | Shinsei Kamattechan
Tsumanne
2010
Genre: Noise Pop
Personal Tags: Insanity, Nightmare fuels, Japanese
This album is essentially a freakishly distorted interpretation of Pop music and it definitely bangs pretty hard. Proceed with caution, repeated listening might cause you to voluntarily bang your head into some hard objects while nutting all over the place. For more a concise description, "the soundtrack to the weeaboo mental breakdown amirite fellas," as copied from the best music website of all time, rateyourmusic.com |
| 11 |  | 36g
The Raingazer's Song
2011 - Not much classics to be shown, but only back-to-back excellence.
Genre: Shoegaze, Electronica
Personal Tags: Abe's choice, Vocaloid, eclectic, weebtastic, Japanese
Initially, I found Vocaloid music to be gimmicky at best. It's just a platform to satisfy those who need some quirky elements in their music. Until I found its application for shoegaze that's unbelievably fitting. This album, in particular, has tons of gaze variety and Miku's vocal just fits. |
| 12 |  | Giles Corey
Giles Corey
2011
Genre: Folkgaze
Personal Tags: the soundtrack for depression, Music to kill myself into
Don't actually kill yourself tho. Call for help. Cheers. https://i.imgur.com/q13Bul2.jpg |
| 13 |  | M83
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
2011
Genre: Indietronica, Dream Pop
Personal Tags: Jovial, Happy listening hour
Almost the definition of being happy. |
| 14 |  | Snowmine
Laminate Pet Animal
2011
Genre: Indie Pop, Gaze
Personal Tags: Uncaged, Bestial
One thing to say about Laminate Pet Animal is that this album is catchy, almost infectious, without sacrificing the layers of instrumental being piled underneath it. |
| 15 |  | True Widow
As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center
2011
Genre: Slowcore, Stoner Gaze
Personal Tags: Slowburn, trance, sadboigaze
The best application for this album is not to be played for focused listening. Instead, play it in the background while doing literally anything else and it will hit out of nowhere. |
| 16 |  | Ringo Deathstarr
Colour Trip
2011
Genre: Dreamgaze
Personal Tags: Local band, colourful
One of the better shoegaze bands out there with MBV vibes on hand. |
| 17 |  | Burrrn
Blaze Down His Way Like The Space Show
2011
Genre: Shoegaze, Noise
Personal Tags: especial, Japanese
The only album from this band that I find to be really unique in their sound design. |
| 18 |  | Tokyo Shoegazer
Crystallize
2011
Genre: Dreamgaze, Post-Rock
Personal Tags: Essential, Excellence, Japanese
Putting 'shoegazer' in your band title means business. These guys surely don't mess around when putting a cat and pedals as their album cover also. They nailed all the atmospheric, softer, and heavier aspects of this album. |
| 19 |  | Schematics For Gravity
Schematics For Gravity
2011
Genre: Shoegaze, Post-metal
Personal Tags: Fusion, EP
A Gentle shoegaze guitar tone yet still metal the h*ck out of you. Beautiful record. (no cussing allowed in this Islamic list) |
| 20 |  | Deafheaven
Roads to Judah
2011
Genre: Blackgaze
Personal Tags: Introductory, Personal Pick, Pummeling
Short, sweet, and perfect debut album. I might prefer this to their pink counterpart actually. |
| 21 |  | Kinoko Teikoku
Uzu Ni Naru
2012 - From classics to bummers
Genre: Shoegaze, Post-rock, Emo
Personal Tags: Best of the Decade, Youthful, Solace
I explained everything in my review, plz check ty. |
| 22 |  | Melody's Echo Chamber
Melody's Echo Chamber
2012
Genre: Psych, Dream Pop
Personal Tags: Lush, Surreal
This album is like a gazey and female-fronted version of Tame Impala, except that it's actually palatable for my taste. |
| 23 |  | Shojoskip
Cosodorokitsune
2012
Genre: Post-Rock, Dreamgaze
Personal Tags: Best track ever in here, Positivity, Japanese
Kamome is by far my all-time favorite dreamgaze infused post-rock track. Please spend the next 10 mins of your life on it. |
| 24 |  | School of Seven Bells
Ghostory
2012
Genre: Dream Pop, Indietronica
Personal Tags: Indulgence, Affable, Bakemonogatari
Reminiscent of those times where I used to play with my friends after school. Fun times. |
| 25 |  | Various Artists (Shoegaze)
Mikgazer vol.1
2012
Genre: Shoegaze
Personal Tags: Abe's choice, Cohesive, Vocaloid, Japanese
Isn't it weird calling a VA's album to be cohesive? This one is similar to no. 11 where it's mind-blowingly good. The difference that Mikgazer is coming from 12 artists, including a flowing album while 36g's album feels like a collection of excellent musical outings, not the other way around weirdly enough. |
| 26 |  | Marriages
Kitsune
2012
Genre: Shoegaze, Post-rock
Personal Tags: Greyscale, Icy
Shoegaze is normally associated with bright colors. Light blue, pink, teal, or floral green perhaps? This one within the shade of greys. |
| 27 |  | Beach House
Bloom
2012
Genre: Dream Pop
Personal Tags: Wack
Listening to Beach House is like drinking alcohol, but you get a hangover immediately. |
| 28 |  | Title Fight
Floral Green
2012
Genre: Emo, Shoegaze, Punk
Personal Tags: Could've been better.
This album, while it isn't bad, feels like a bland marriage of generic vocal delivery and incomplete gaze fusion within a post-hardcore realm.
2012 |
| 29 |  | Wild Nothing
Nocturne
2012
Genre: Dream Pop
Personal Tags: A Continuation.
It's like a better version of Gemini, more substances and catchier. |
| 30 |  | Merchandise
Children of Desire
2012
Genre: Post-Punk, Shoegaze
Personal Tags: A Chronicle
An album that comes off to me as a story that if you dive into it deeper, you'll experience the full effect of it, which I really haven't done. |
| 31 |  | Thought Forms
Ghost Mountain
2013 - Remarkable releases through and through.
Genre: Shoegaze, Noise, Ambient
Personal Tags: Under the Radar, Aesthetics
This is by far the more complex aesthetics for shoegaze. Severely under the radar for something this good. |
| 32 |  | Entropia (PL)
Vesper
2013
Genre: Blackgaze
Personal Tags: Underrated, Sombre
Poland-based blackgaze band should be up in the alley with other big bois out there. Excellent blackgaze album. |
| 33 |  | Deafheaven
Sunbather
2013
Genre: Blackgaze
Personal Tags: Bright-colored blackgaze album, Essential
One of the cornerstones of blackgaze albums. Black metal for hipsters who wear skinny jeans. |
| 34 |  | An Autumn For Crippled Children
Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love
2013
Genre: Blackgaze
Personal Tags: Bright-colored blackgaze album [2], Opaque, Album and band titles are so long man
A different take to blackgaze, basically a densely layered wall of noise on top of the asphyxiated shrill vocal. The bright color of the album really adds to the imagery of the music; it sounds exactly to what the album art looks like. |
| 35 |  | Kinoko Teikoku
Eureka
2013
Genre: Dreamgaze, Indie, Post-Rock
Personal Tags: Abe's choice, Ethereal, Variant
This and their previous album is an absolute work of art that is both charming in their own way. Classics in each of their own; I prefer their debut though. |
| 36 |  | Candy Claws
Ceres And Calypso In The Deep Time
2013
Genre: Dreamgaze, Psych
Personal Tags: Essential, Tropical, Euphoria
The soundtrack through a tropical fantasy land. A rainforest in which nothing is harmful, only joyful things exist there. |
| 37 |  | My Bloody Valentine
m b v
2013
Genre: Shoegaze, Loveless
Personal Tags: Excellent comeback
Definitely doesn't have the same impossible standard of Loveless, but does it scratch the itch? Definitely |
| 38 |  | Tokyo Shoegazer
Turnaround
2013
Genre: Shoegaze, Post-rock
Personal Tags: Focused, Unchanged
Still have the precision from the previous release. Although this album explores the post-rock application of shoegaze more compared to the previous album, which I might actually prefer. |
| 39 |  | The Novembers
Rhapsody in Beauty
2013
Genre: Noise Rock, Shoegaze
Personal Tags: All-in-one
I honestly didn't expect the variety of tracks here. Great album with a great amount of musicianship. |
| 40 |  | Baby Formula
Baby Formula
2013
Genre: Dreamgaze, Ambient
Personal Tags: Chinese, Quiet
Some nice Chinese shoegaze to relax to. |
| 41 |  | Nothing
Guilty of Everything
2014
Genre: Shoegaze, Alternative, Dream Pop
Personal Tags: Best of the Decade, Hushed, Sadboigaze
Guilty of Everything embodies everything that I want from a shoegaze album. Be it the right amount of guitar fuzz, the lackadaisical yet emotive vocal delivery, the intensity at the right moments, and how the album seamlessly flows from beginning to end. |
| 42 |  | Kairon IRSE!
Ujubasajuba
2014
Genre: Shoegaze, Space Rock, Psych
Personal Tags: Majestic, Essential
I'm really picky about vocals. Unfortunately enough, the vocal in this album holds back the greatness on otherwise a majestic space rock gaze album. |
| 43 |  | Alcest
Shelter
2014
Genre: Shoegaze, Post-rock
Personal Tags: A change in direction.
Completely erasing the trace of black metal in this album to birth out a pretty shoegaze album as a result, which is greater than the condemnation of this album. |
| 44 |  | Lantlos
Melting Sun
2014
Genre: Post-Rock, Blackgaze
Personal Tags: Bright-colored blackgaze album [3], No Neige No Problem
Honestly, not sure if this still qualified as blackgaze. It seems like a post-rock album with metal tendency. Still awesome tho. |
| 45 |  | Emma Ruth Rundle
Some Heavy Ocean
2014
Genre: Folkgaze, Ethereal Wave
Personal Tags: Melancholic, "I just can't believe", Abe's Choice
A deeply personal album that's filled with melancholic tones and reverbs. |
| 46 |  | The War on Drugs
Lost in the Dream
2014
Genre: Heartland Rock (some kind of fusion of shoegaze with Americana), Indie Rock
Personal Tags: Essential, Therapeutic
Nixon should've done it this way. |
| 47 |  | Have a Nice Life
The Unnatural World
2014
Genre: Post-Punk, Shoegaze
Personal Tags: Cascade, Lost
Compared to their apex of musical achievement, Deathconsciousness, The Unnatural World seems to be a small re-creation of it. Nonetheless, it definitely does scratch the itc |
| 48 |  | A Sunny Day in Glasgow
Sea When Absent
2014
Genre: Dreamgaze, Noise
Personal Tags: Opulent, Sporadic
A more eclectic style of dreamgaze with a touch of noise and indietronica. I think this album threw a bunch of weird transitions within its tracks. It still works tho. |
| 49 |  | Turnover
Peripheral Vision
2015 - Not much happening, just a few cool releases.
Genre: drEaM pOp, Indie, gaze
Personal Tags: Successful transition
I honestly haven't heard their previous works, I just heard that they decided to add shoegaze element to their emo-based sound and it worked. |
| 50 |  | Ringo Deathstarr
Pure Mood
2015
Genre: Dreamgaze, Alternative Rock, Noise
Personal Tags: More Colors
A major step up from their previous albums. More variety, better executions. |
| 51 |  | Wintermute (JPN)
Blood Color Flower
2015
Genre: Shoegaze
Personal Tags: Yet Another Vocaloid, EP
Small 4 tracks EP from one of the artists who did Mikgazer. Excellent. |
| 52 |  | Pinkshinyultrablast
Everything Else Matters
2015
Genre: Dreamgaze
Personal Tags: Gapless, Jolly, Essential
Best band name of all time? Although, it does coincide with the sound that you'll get from this album. It's tasty, filling, great for brunch... Wait. |
| 53 |  | indigo la End
Shiawase ga Afuretara
2015
Genre: Indie Rock, Dream Pop
Personal Tags: Sugary, Catchy,
Listened to this once and I'm already singing along the chorus the next listen. The catchiness is unreal. It's a rather poppy record that's full of energy. |
| 54 |  | Gleemer
Moving Away
2015
Genre: Indie Rock, Shoegaze, drEaM pOp [2]
Personal Tags: Sadboigaze (now with indie flavor), Essential
drapp |
| 55 |  | Westkust
Last Forever
2015
Genre: Noise Pop, Dreamgaze
Personal Tags: Infectious
Last forever is a rather straightforward album, it's filled with snappy dueling vocals. Easy listening perhaps. |
| 56 |  | Hearts Of Black Science
Signal
2015
Genre: Dreamgaze, Synthpop
Personal Tags: Baritone, modern take of an old concept.
If you ever heard of Tears for Fears, I think this album somewhat resembles it but with a modern tone and, of course, gazey reverbs. |
| 57 |  | Alcest
Kodama
2016 - Excellent to classic
Genre: Blackgaze
Personal Tags: Back to Black, Japan-themed, Best of the Decade
Perhaps it was intentional when Alcest released Shelter as a mean to improve their soundscape to the maximum. Kodama is my definition of a perfect blackgaze album. |
| 58 |  | Astronoid
Air
2016
Genre: Uplifting Power Metal Gaze, or just Blackgaze
Personal Tags: The least blackgaze-sounding blackgaze ever.
It slaps really hard tho, no complaints about this one. |
| 59 |  | Hammock
Everything and Nothing
2016
Genre: Post-Rock, Ambient, Dreamgaze
Personal Tags: Boring-gaze
I'm half kidding on that tag. Hammock is kinda boring for active listening tbh. I'd rather play their music in the background when I don't want anything loud. |
| 60 |  | If These Trees Could Talk
The Bones of a Dying World
2016
Genre: Post-Rock, Post-Metal, Shoegaze
Personal Tags: Instrumental, Thunderous
Some instrumental Post-rock/metal with some gazey tendency. Slaps pretty hard. |
| 61 |  | Alter
Embers
2016
Genre: Shoegaze, Post-Rock
Personal Tags: Abe's Choice, Dim, Sharp
I stumbled upon this band randomly on youtube and they have turned to be one of my favorite gaze bands ever due to their unparalleled tonality. Absolutely gorgeous. |
| 62 |  | Nothing
Tired of Tomorrow
2016
Genre: Shoegaze, Alternative, Dream Pop
Personal Tags: Regressed Sequel
Tired of Tomorrow tries to do too many expansions at once, as a result, it compromised some of the qualities that made Guilty of Everything so amazing. It's still a fine record, however. |
| 63 |  | Harakiri for the Sky
III: Trauma
2016
Genre: Blackgaze, Post-Rock
Personal Tags: Drifting, Lengthy
Is blackgaze is just a prettier sounding Post-Black Metal? Anywho, this is a good album for a long ride. |
| 64 |  | Oathbreaker
Rheia
2016
Genre: Blackgaze
Personal Tags: Female-fronted, banshee
I wished my mom scold me with this type of VOX when I was younger. |
| 65 |  | Alter
Pendulum
2017
Genre: Shoegaze, Post-rock
Personal Tags: Best of the Decade, Mastered Tonality
Shoutout to Archelirion for gifting me this album. It's an insta-5 just for it. On a more serious note, this album is like Embers but with a more focused approach. To me, this record breathes originality that I haven't found anywhere else yet, nor I noticed any major influence for their sound. |
| 66 |  | Airiel
Molten Young Lovers
2017
Genre: Dreamgaze
Personal Tags: Rectification, Sunny
It's bright. Compared to their work a decade ago, it's like a day and night. The vocal melody on The Battle on Sealand is just straight-up wacky. It only took them 10 years to fix the problem so props. |
| 67 |  | Secret Shine
There Is Only Now
2017
Genre: Dreamgaze
Personal Tags: Safe, Stable
Secret Shine has been around since the release of Loveless, which seems to feel like forever ago. There Is Only Now sounds like they have modernize their sound a bit. |
| 68 |  | Hundredth
Rare
2017
Genre: Shoegaze, Post-Hardcore
Personal Tags: Successful Transition [2]
I honestly haven't heard their previous works, I just heard that they decided to add shoegaze element to their Post-Hardcore-based sound and it worked. [2] |
| 69 |  | Mountaineer
Sirens & Slumber
2017
Genre: Sludgegaze, Post-metal (rock?)
Personal Tags: Punchy, Somewhat Emo
Take shoegaze, add sludgy guitar tones and emo vocal, and spread a post-metal influence over it and you get Sirens & Slumber. |
| 70 |  | Fazerdaze
Morningside
2017
Genre: Dream Pop, Indie Pop
Personal Tags: "I'm a Lucky Girl!", Essential
Morningside is in your face type of happy music. It's straightforward. It doesn't shake much within the experimentation or songcraft. It's just pure unadulterated fun being made into an album. |
| 71 |  | Panda Riot
Infinity Maps
2017
Genre: Dreamgaze
Personal Tags: Deceptively lengthy
18 tracks of dreamgaze? What in the world... Fortunately though (Unfortunately?), that most of the tracks are short interludes in between normal length tracks and they are not fillers by any means. |
| 72 |  | Palehorse/Palerider
Burial Songs
2017
Genre: Post-Rock, Doomgaze
Personal Tags: Celestial Calling, Abe's Choice
I have a soft spot for post-rock and it's not a surprise considering my pie-chart. Burial Songs is crossing the realm of both Post-Rock and Post-Metal since metal includes some sort of heaviness within its sound, or headbanging if you want to call it that way... To put it shortly, it's the softest sounding metal that I have experienced. |
| 73 |  | Heretoir
The Circle
2017
Genre: Blackgaze
Personal Tags: Bright-colored blackgaze album [4], Neige strikes again.
A heavier sounding Alcest album, featuring Alcest. |
| 74 |  | Life on Venus
Encounters
2017
Genre: Dreamgaze
Personal Tags: Adrift, steady
Venus because Mars is overrated. Also one of my favorites of its year of release because of its seamless flow of an album. |
| 75 |  | Infinity Girl
Somewhere Nice, Someday
2017
Genre: Shoegaze, Noise Pop
Personal Tags: Craze, Untamed
Somewhere Nice, Someday reminiscent of MBV guitar tone with sometimes heartbreaking melodies. |
| 76 |  | Cigarettes After Sex
Cigarettes After Sex
2017
Genre: Dream Pop
Personal Tags: Essential, Rich
It's like Beach House but it's actually good. |
| 77 |  | Shelling
Waiting For Mint Shower!!
2017
Genre: Dreamgaze
Personal Tags: Dainty, Japanese
By far the most delicate dreamgaze album. It's like endlessly falling into a cloud. |
| 78 |  | Planning for Burial
Below the House
2017
Genre: Shoegaze, Post-Metal, Slowcore, Drone
Personal Tags: Below the House, Under the Sea, Beneath the Sun
Not sure about those tags. If you don't mind drone, boris-esque album, then this is a perfect album to listen to. |
| 79 |  | Turnover
Good Nature
2017
Genre: Dream Pop, Indie Pop
Personal Tags: Major disappointment
Peripheral Vision showed a mission. It's an art of balancing elements of shoegaze, dream pop, indie rock, and Emo, resulting in a delicate, enjoyable piece of music. Good Nature is none of that, actually. It's like a neutered dream pop album that is an absolute snoozefest. |
| 80 |  | Slowdive
Slowdive
2017
Genre: Dreamgaze
Personal Tags: Broke,
Slowdive comeback album is not bad by any means. It just lacks whatever made their previous works to be full of amazement. |
| 81 |  | A Beacon School
Cola
2018 - Jams after Jams
Genre: Dream Pop, Chillwave
Personal Tags: Essential, No Pepsi Allowed
Cola features two 11/10 songs, the rest is just great. |
| 82 |  | Just Mustard
Wednesday
2018
Genre: Shoegaze, Indie Rock
Personal Tags: Only Mayonaise - Thursday, Abe's Choice
Merely Ketchup - Friday. Despite the wacky band name, Wednesday features a dark atmosphere, screechy guitar textures, and carnal vocals. |
| 83 |  | Vyva Melinkolya
Vyva Melinkolya
2018
Genre: Dreamgaze
Personal Tags: Androgynous
This self-titled album is a soundtrack to a projected image of the melancholic life of Vyva Melinkolya. |
| 84 |  | Snail Mail
Lush
2018
Genre: Indie Rock, Shoegaze, Singer-Songwriter
Personal Tags: Modest, Unapologetic
Lindsay Jordan, the woman behind Snail Mail, sings her heart out in Lush. It's the very sound of Indie if there's any. |
| 85 |  | Harakiri for the Sky
Arson
2018
Genre: Blackgaze
Personal Tags: Hopefully not in Australia
Arson does commit sudoku once more. I enjoyed this album the first time listening to it, but I feel there's an edginess that somewhat bothers me after tasting this album in this day and age. |
| 86 |  | Macaroom
swimming classroom
2018
Genre: Indietronica, J-Pop, Dream Pop
Personal Tags: Abe's Choice, Childlike Innocence. Japanese
If we are talking about Macaroon as an Italian cookie, it's unbeatable in its color, taste, and complexity to make. Almost similar to this Japanese Indietronica duo. Shoutout to Johnnyofthewell for recommending this to me. |
| 87 |  | Dots (.........)
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2018
Genre: J-Pop, Dreamgaze
Personal Tags: Idoltery, Anonymity
What is this band really? Why are they named ................ And why is this album has no title like literally no title?
This album isn't "untitled" but actually has no title. Why does this quite bouncy also? I have so many questions. |
| 88 |  | Beach House
7
2018
Genre: Dream Poop
Personal Tags: Their best at least
Something about Beach House as a band that rubs me the wrong way in every single way. It has a dream-pop sound but annoys me to no end on how it fails to present what dream pop means to me. To summarize, Beach House is like a Dream Pop band for those who are not into Dream Pop. Anyway, 7 is at least inoffensive to me unlike some of their previous releases. |
| 89 |  | The Daysleepers
Creation
2018
Genre: Dreamgaze, Ambient
Personal Tags: Reversal, Hazy
The Daysleepers released one of my favorites Dreamgaze album of all time with Drowned in a Sea of Sound due to their upbeat melody and happy outings. This resembles that album but in a negative filter. It shifts the mood upside down from Happy to Melancholic. It also turned an easy-listen album into a slow-burn one. |
| 90 |  | Mountaineer
Passages
2018
Genre: Post-Metal, Shoegaze
Personal Tags: 2nd time the charm?
Mountaineer's 2nd attempt to create sludgey post-metal gaze with emo vocal seems to go in a more cohesive way. I might actually prefer their debut though. |
| 91 |  | Alcest
Spiritual Instinct
2019 - end of the decade, few favorites.
Genre: Blackgaze
Personal Tags: Undeniably Alcest
My reaction to Spiritual Instinct is lukewarm. Perhaps that maybe this record is a slow-burn one compared to Neige's previous works and I haven't really dived deep into this album yet. Maybe It'll grow on me someday. |
| 92 |  | Dots (.........)
Points
2019
Genre: J-Pop, Noise, Death Grips, Shoegaze
Personal Tags: What
My idol shoegaze group now comes in a surprise Death Grips packaging. |
| 93 |  | Collider
-><-
2019
Genre: Noise Pop, Shoegaze, Experimental
Personal Tags: Chaotic Harmony
There are moments in this album that made go, whoa or whew. What did they just do? It's undeniably excellently crafted, but too much of randomness for my liking. Or maybe that I'm not high enough. Still a cool listen tho. |
| 94 |  | DIIV
Deceiver
2019
Genre: Dreamgaze
Personal Tags: Deceived
It's just a well-executed album. I haven't noticed anything other than that. |
| 95 |  | uchu nekoko
Kimi No Youni Ikiretara
2019
Genre: Dreamgaze, Indie Rock
Personal Tags: Unadulterated, Concise, Japanese
The lovely vocal delivery is the first thing that caught my attention. Then the subtly complex musicianship that caught me off guard. |
| 96 |  | Drowse
Light Mirror
2019
Genre: Shoegaze, Ambient, Slowcore
Personal Tags: Haunted, Hazy
Light Mirror is more to be an experience rather than music. IMO, Ambient music is generally like that. |
| 97 |  | Yeule
Serotonin II
2019
Genre: Ambient Pop, Dream Pop, Chillwave
Personal Tags: Abe's Choice
It caught me off guard on how Yeule emerged to my attention. From a track recommended by Budgie in a list that I don't even remember into finally realizing that her album was about to be released. I've said everything in the review also, plz check ty [2]. |
| 98 |  | White Ward
Love Exchange Failure
2019
Genre: Blackgaze
Personal Tags: Bright-colored... no, uncharacteristically placed album art.
If I have to judge an album from the cover, this would probably more appropriate if it was an 80's synthpop album. |
| 99 |  | Whirr
Feels Like You
2019
Genre: Dreamgaze
Personal Tags: Despite all of the controversy
They actually made a really good record for this one. |
| 100 |  | Radio Supernova
Tahtiin
2019
Genre: Dreamgaze, Space Rock
Personal Tags: Can I have the instrumental version?
Because of the vocal sounds off-putting most of the time. |
| 101 |  | Ichiko Aoba
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SPOTIFY PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6D18FP5BPd5ZMY0jn5XvFb?si=5SZhEhTIQFyLn7pUD9tdRg
Essential (basically great release for its genre):
Whirr - Distressor
Tokyo Shoegazer - Crystallize
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Candy Claws - Ceres and Calypso...
Kairon Irse! - Ujubasajuba
The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
Pinkshinyultrablast - Everything Else Matters
Gleemer - Moving Away
Fazerdaze - Morningside
Cigarettes After Sex - s/t
A Beacon School - Cola
Abe's Choice (My personal favorite):
36g - The Raingazer's song
VA - Mikgazer Vol. 1
Kinoko Teikoku - Eureka
Emma Ruth Rundle - Some Heavy Ocean
Alter - Embers
Palehorse/Palerider - Burial Songs
Just Mustard - Wednesday
Macaroom - Swimming Classroom
Yeule - Serotonin II
Best of the Decade:
Alcest - Ecailles de Lune
Kinoko Teikoku - Uzu ni Naru
Nothing - Guilty of Everything
Alcest - Kodama
Alter - Pendulum |
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