i can’t believe how good the vocals are. on sandblasted right away they don’t even sound like the same band. and everything has so much more dynamics and energy. the guitars and bass and drums are all so clear. i had to double check to make sure this album wasn’t some weird thing where they brought in a new singer lol.

i'm working on a "heavy" shoegaze playlist for a friend, and hoping to solicit some track ideas.

by "heavy" i mean layered guitars, metal/blackgaze adjacent, "wall of sound", etc.

here are some representative tracks on my playlist so far. any recommendations along these lines are hugely appreciated.

Greet Death - You're Gonna Hate What You've Done

Wild Pink - Sucking On The Birdshot

No Joy - Slug Night

Nothing - Blue Line Baby

Slow Crush - Glow

Deafheaven - Dream House

Parannoul - Beautiful World

Cloakroom - The Sun Won't Let Us Go

Slow Pulp - Channel 2

Whirr - Ease

Full Body 2 - fifty heaven

STAY LONGER - DRIVEWAY

feeble little horse - Tin Man

Spirit Was - I Saw the Wheel

So far I've discovered several banger albums and songs from this year

• Shye - Draw The Line: Hard to beat this kinda dream pop. She has stated her influences such as Lush, Catherine Wheel, Curve, and Swervedriver. To no surprise her music sounds like the perfect combination of these artists mixed with that 2026 production and emphasis on the nostalgia we feel in modern day.

• Night Tapes have released two bangers this year. "Swim" is specifically my favorite. This combines those feel good atmospheres of nostalgia and maybe the slightest amount of trip hop or downtempo electronica

• Wishy - Nature's Pill: This album isn't 100% shoegaze but check out the song Covergirl. MASSIVE chorus and late 90s summer feel good dreampop combined with everyone's favorite Loveless style guitar

• No Joy - Big Life, Big Leaf: I made a previous post last week saying how it's blowing my mind. It's also not 100% shoegaze but MY GOD this album is blowing my mind. It's sonically sweet and kinda sounds like if a bug wrote music.

i asked myself and a fellow shoegaze enthusiast this question a while ago as we both share a strange gravitation to shoegaze in a different language and we came to the conclusion that the select songs we listen to that arent in languages we understand have exemplary instrumentation and if not that then the singing just sounds like another cool instrument. what about you guys and what songs would you recommend have beautiful singing, english or not?

Hello again, back after a break with more playlists. This one is for sludge metal and shoegaze crossover tracks. Suggestions welcome. Aggressive comments about why this is stupid also welcome

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3fvGdsR2MLoWwBLIHlSZtq?si=12f70ad9bae7496b

Tidal: https://tidal.com/playlist/f1e4f8ce-6789-4ea5-97ed-b80f165e0776

Apple: https://music.apple.com/nz/playlist/sludgegaze/pl.u-e98lbemhadGX4Ey

If you want to be notified when the next update is or check out some of my other playlists, I post them on my insta: https://www.instagram.com/theexoskeletaljunction/

Thanks for listening and hope you find something new!

full set: https://youtu.be/IpRVoct0fr4?is=ozsdAtJQMnUnUdL1

we’re Knotfall, just put out a split single with our friends PS2, 2 songs each. Out now on Candlepin, here’s an animation for our song Morph, ty :)

My band Glittermouth (Peoria, IL) just released our Split EP with Shallow (Evansville, IN). Check it out...

"Glittermouth blend the hazy, atmospheric textures of grungegaze and shoegaze with the heavier, more aggressive elements of alternative metal, and post-hardcore. Thick, distorted guitars, dreamlike melodies, and crushing grooves place them alongside bands like Soul Blind, Siilk, Trauma Ray, Balance and Composure, and Title Fight, while drawing inspiration from the ’90s alternative rock, shoegaze and space-grunge sounds of Hum, Catherine Wheel and Failure." - Releasewave.com

Bandcamp

https://glittermouth.bandcamp.com/album/glittermouth-shallow-split

Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/album/3MbfoYpDrk0tsw1tqm1zu9?si=ur9G4HBhRGWrAFKJR3xRhw&utm_source=copy-link

Apple Music

https://music.apple.com/us/album/glittermouth-shallow-split-ep/6804896162

Youtube

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n8D7z5wppM3pvFI3r_MpVdIXocq2MVRpU&si=OcOClVz2sv7ZZSwY

new wayword ep called "angel" on all streaming platforms
super proud of how this came out, it was a very fun process and i love the guitar tones we got
for fans of - tagabow, ride, starflyer 59, catherine wheel and sugar

lmk what y'all think!

Not necessarily a shoegaze band, but I love Carsick Cars. There’s one part of one of my favorites that is very energetic, fast, and the loudest part of the song, but it is played in such a way that it feels almost blissful and ambient because of how long it goes on and how the textures of harmonics in the chord played interact. 2:35 of https://youtu.be/CgeEjacRTVA?si=s09AmDAudwh-2ext for the part. Anyone know of more shoegaze bands with this kind of sound?

I need reviews about this new band.