Shoegaze genre article :-) (in: Guitars)

By: Dunbar
12 May 22:42

Ride were darlings of the paisley shirt and winkle picker crowd, initially. Just listen to “Chelsea Girl”, the opener from their first ep. It’s got a distinctly hard edge, a sound which softened over time (until 1992’s “Leave Them All Behind”).

As for My Bloody Valentine, they are by far the most influential band from that era. But – and this is a big f***king “but” – their release of Loveless in 1991 did not feel like an epiphany. At the time, it felt more like a tombstone. A tombstone that re…

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