send me shoegaze bands

loathe & fleshwater

loathe & fleshwater

Two albums from the band "Candy Claws", "Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time" and "Two Airships/ Exploder Falls"

They're more dream pop but have you heard Ozean or the pumpkin fairies 

I've put all my recs in so I wanted to go ahead and share this even though I don't have all the links put in yet. I'm adding the links as we "speak". :) 

This is my first forum post, so if it turns out that I can't edit links (bc I'm not entirely sure right now), I'll post a reply with all the links in it.

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Depending on exactly what you like, this may not be up your alley, but one of my favorite bands is Spotlights. They're technically atmospheric sludge metal / post-metal, but they have a lot of shoegaze influence. Some of their songs remind me of some Deftones songs, but I'm a bigger fan of Spotlights (Bandcamp | Rate Your Music | Last.FM | Spotify) . If you end up liking Spotlights, also try Alcest (Bandcamp | Rate Your Music | Last.FM | Spotify), Holy Fawn (Bandcamp | Rate Your Music | Last.FM | Spotify), Lantlos (Bandcamp | Rate Your Music | Last.FM | Spotify), and Planning for Burial (Bandcamp | Rate Your Music | Last.FM | Spotify).

Also recommend:

• Gold Celeste                          (Bandcamp | Rate Your Music | Last.FM | Spotify)
• Nothing                                 (Bandcamp | Rate Your Music | Last.FM | Spotify) 
• Slow Crush                            (Bandcamp | Rate Your Music | Last.FM | Spotify) 
• Cloakroom                             (Bandcamp | Rate Your Music | Last.FM | Spotify) 
• Candy Claws                          (Bandcamp | Rate Your Music | Last.FM | Spotify)
• Alvvays                                 (Bandcamp | Rate Your Music | Last.FM | Spotify)
• Slowdive                               (Bandcamp | Rate Your Music | Last.FM| Spotify)
• Have a Nice Life                     (Bandcamp | Rate Your Music | Last.FM | Spotify)
• Greet Death                           (Bandcamp | Rate Your Music | Last.FM | Spotify)
• My Bloody Valentine (obvs)     (Bandcamp | Rate Your Music | Last.FM | Spotify)
• Whirr (also obviously)             (Bandcamp | Rate Your Music | Last.FM | Spotify)
• Hum (another obvious choice) (Bandcamp | Rate Your Music | Last.FM | Spotify)
• Them Are Us Too                    (Bandcamp | Rate Your Music | Last.FM | Spotify)
• Avenade                                (Bandcamp | Rate Your Music | Last.FM | Spotify)
• Makthaverskan                       (Bandcamp | Rate Your Music | Last.FM | Spotify) 

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More recommendations:

• Last.FM tag 'shoegaze'
• Rate Your Music - all 'shoegaze' releases
• Rate Your Music - top 'shoegaze' albums of all time
• Rate Your Music - highly rated 'shoegaze' releases with relatively few ratings (esoteric) from all years
• Rate Your Music - Shoegaze Ultimate Box Set List
• Spotify's 'Shoegaze Now' playlist
• Spotify's 'Shoegaze Classics' playlist
• Youtube - Before Loveless: How Shoegaze Became Shoegaze
• Youtube - What is Shoegaze? The Essentials to the Sound | A Documentary

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Other genres you may like: "doomgaze" (not sure how official that is), doom metal, sludge metal, post-rock (you have probably already explored this), post-metal AKA atmospheric sludge metal

A great resource for exploring metal (doom, sludge, and atmospheric sludge included) is the Encyclopaedia Metallum AKA Metal Archives.

if you havent already you should listen to asian glow

if you havent already you should listen to asian glow

Alvvays

rlly currently digging the album luminousorangesuperplastic by luminous orange :P

lovesilkpalemilk, monoland, monaural, majesty crush, sloan, tram

medicine,slowdive, cocteau twins, loathe,astrobrite

a super underrated ep i've recently found is "faded out" by radium jaw. they only have 600 monthly listeners!

My de4d girlfriend,lsd and the search for god

Cemeteries, pale saints, swallow, Alison's halo

The Daysleepers, Slowdive, The Veldt, Deep Cut, Whirr.

Also, you should listen to DKFM radio. They play exclusively shoegaze. It's where I found Deep Cut.

DKFM

this is so late but tokyo shoegazer and parannoul are really good if no one said this alr!!

reveries

Some of my favorites:

Joyer - Night Songs

Tanukichan - Sundays

Panchiko - D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L

girlfriends very good and very different also winter

Matoki

they are one of my fav shoegaze bands!

they come from the phillipines and my friend recommended them to me theyre song "streets" is SO GOOD!

give it a listen :)

colour trip by ringo deathstarr !! love this album sm

knifeplay and narrowhead 

wisp is really good if you haven't listened to her!!! she's gonna have a show with big names like SystemOAD, Polyphia and Deftones!!! her music is way too banger to miss

pale saints!!

theyre not EXACTLY shoegaze (theyre more noiserock / grunge) but julie is SO good ^w^

i suggest megumi acorda

I made an entire youtube playlist, mostly full albums
here's the RYM list that goes with it
and its companion (more generalist '80s indie', but trying to highlight obscure things as well)

highlights from both lists:
chorchazade (one of the first ever post-rock groups)
blissed out fatalists
daisy hill puppy farm
whipping boy
dadamah
here - swirl LP (1993)
in heaven - aquanova CS (1993)
borax
lavra
autumnfair 1986-1989 CD
candy afterlife
belle du soir
green on red
normil hawaiians (also early on the take for post-rock, recorded in the same studio as mbv's first album)
the james dean driving experience
close lobsters
sindy arthur
cranes