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Kinoko Teikoku
Start with Whirlpool
A clean opening gives you time to place the voice and guitar before the band opens up the sound. Pick this Japanese release to hear how a steady vocal keeps its intimacy through the changes in scale.
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Tokyo Shoegazer
Start with Bright
Several guitar textures pile up around a small melody before the volume takes over. Try it if you want to hear how this Tokyo group draws out a bigger, slower change in dynamics than the compact pop side of shoegaze.
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LSD and the Search for God
Born
Start with Starting Over
Hear how the chorus leans into a louder guitar tone while the vocals stay close. It gives you the California revival’s noisier edge in a song with a clean melodic outline.
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Fleeting Joys
Start with Lovely Crawl
The guitars drift against each other while a close vocal seems to step forward and recede. Choose it if you want the blurred chord motion of early shoegaze with the melody folded deep into the mix.
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Asobi Seksu
Born
Start with Thursday
The guitar layers brighten and open as the drums drive forward under Yuki Chikudate’s voice. Choose Asobi Seksu if you want the power of a large arrangement with a pop tune you can still follow.
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Airiel
Born
Start with In Your Room
Delay repeats keep little guitar details moving even once the drums and vocals settle in. Choose it for clear, bright texture inside a full-band shoegaze sound.
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Ringo Deathstarr
Born
Start with Kaleidoscope
A fast beat and clipped phrases make a compact doorway into a dense guitar mix. Pick it if you want noise pop that gets to the chorus before the layers have time to drift.
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Nothing
Born
Start with Vertigo Flowers
The guitars have a heavy low end, and the melody has enough space to clear it. Try it for a revival-era band with a stronger connection to loud alternative rock.
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The Radio Dept.
Start with Keen on Boys
The drum pattern makes a clear frame for the low vocal and lightly frayed guitar. Use it to hear the point where a quiet electronic pulse keeps the guitar from floating away.
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Whirr
Start with Ease
A thick repeating figure is the center of the track. Let it sit for a while to hear how the changes in pressure do the work a sharper chord change might do elsewhere.
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DIIV
Born
Start with Blankenship
The rhythm section keeps a direct line through guitars that rub against each other. Choose it when you want a darker sound where you can still hear the individual riff.
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A Place to Bury Strangers
Start with You Are The One
A spare vocal and firm pulse hold their ground as noise moves around the song. Choose it if you want shoegaze guitar to cut and scrape instead of softening the edges.
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Pinkshinyultrablast
Born
Start with Holy Forest
High guitar notes shimmer across a mix that resets its pace several times. This is a good next stop if you like Slowdive’s depth and want something brighter and more buoyant.
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Alvvays
Start with Belinda Says
Louder guitars build around a closely written vocal melody. Pick this adjacent indie-pop entry for the way a wash of sound can enlarge a chorus without obscuring its words.
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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Born
Start with Young Adult Friction
The melody stays bright and the fuzz is clipped closely to its beat. Use it when you want to trace the edge where shoegaze meets noisy indie pop.
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Wednesday
Born
Start with Bull Believer
A long guitar build moves toward raw sustained noise, with the vocal going from a melody to a scream. This adjacent pick is useful if you want to hear how far the texture can travel into southern indie rock.
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Glixen
Start with Splendor
The track lets a thick guitar sound settle behind the voice instead of keeping the whole mix equally loud. Try it to hear the heavier end of the current revival without giving up a clean melodic center.
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Mo Dotti
Start with For Anyone and You
The guitar movement has a bright edge even when the layers thicken. Pick it if the part of early shoegaze you love is the place where the melody and distortion still sparkle together.
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They Are Gutting a Body of Water
Start with 63 Skies
The guitars and the beat seem to belong to different surfaces. Pick it for a modern take that uses digital interruptions and shoegaze texture in the same space.
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Deafheaven
Start with Dream House
Guitars push melodic lines through shrieked vocals and hard, fast drums, then pull back to create space. Choose this blackgaze entry if you want to follow shoegaze sustain into much more intense metal.
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Alcest
Born
Start with Souvenirs d’un autre monde
Hear broad, ringing layers under a clean vocal and a heavier drum pulse. Use this as a bridge from shoegaze into blackgaze, where the long guitar lines carry over even as the rhythm turns more forceful.
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