How to Use shoegaze in a Sentence

shoegaze

noun

• That wall of sound, which people call shoegaze, was very much up my alley.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 2 Oct. 2023
• Duster’s return demonstrates the way that shoegaze has morphed over time.
  — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 14 Dec. 2023
• This slowcore band called Duster, shoegaze rock, this avant-garde pop band called Broadcast.
  — Neena Rouhani, Billboard, 21 Jan. 2022
• Garbage continues to write and record but is also conscious of its stature as one of the shoegaze sensations of the ‘90s.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 24 June 2022
• Now, the shoegaze legends are back with a fifth album led by singer-guitarists Rachel Goswell and Neil Halstead.
  — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 1 Sep. 2023
• Slowdive These British rockers were among the leading figures on the shoegaze scene that did so much to shape the sound of British music in the early '90s.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2024
• Its title track is ethereal, crisp and cool, with Carucci crooning in a way that evokes early-’90s shoegaze.
  — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• On Rat Saw God, the band reaches shoegaze transcendence, screamo heaven, and the kind of catharsis that leaves you exhausted in the most glorious way.
  — Pitchfork, 6 Dec. 2023
• Their two Creation records were both worthy additions to the shoegaze canon, and like Souvlaki, they mostly got lost in the Britpop shuffle.
  — Brady Gerber, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2021
• But her brand of indie draws from a wider array of influences, including dance music and the fuzzed-out, ethereal rock style known as shoegaze.
  — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 2 June 2021
• And yes, there are metal shows again, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and shows throughout the week devoted to reggae, shoegaze, Americana and more.
  — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2021
• The trio’s teenage exploration of bands like Sonic Youth served as an entry point to a wider world of indie rock, post-punk, shoegaze and beyond that informs their music but doesn’t limit it.
  — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
• The North Carolina band’s blend of alt-country, alt-rock, and shoegaze was exactly what the doctor ordered on an overcast afternoon.
  — Daniel Kohn, Spin, 14 Aug. 2023
• Powered by Will Anderson, the album is an exhilarating blend of driving indie and alt-rock, power-pop, and shoegaze.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 12 Dec. 2023
• For her follow-up, Census Designated, she’s shifted toward a sound that incorporates shoegaze, emo, and more.
  — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 20 Oct. 2023
• After a decade in Baltimore’s music scene, Natural Velvet’s dark-sided post punk, indie rock, shoegaze, grunge sound is still ever evolving.
  — Micha Green, Baltimore Sun, 14 Sep. 2022
• On their forthcoming debut, Moveys, the Wisconsin group cast a wide net — encompassing dreary emo, dusky shoegaze, warm alt-country, and bristly folk — while still forging their own unique identity.
  — Marcus Jones, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2020
• That song had hooked me so deeply, and her work has this amazing way of blending harder metal influences with shoegaze and folk country into this thing that's really uniquely, identifiably her own.
  — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2023
• This long-running Sacramento band is one of 21st-century rock’s bedrock artists because of its precise balance between mersh-rock’s pummeling charge, post-rock’s elliptical song structure, and shoegaze’s fuzzed-out beauty.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2022
• The prolific, and anonymous, South Korean songwriter and producer combines shoegaze, post-rock, emo, ambient, and pop with bold originality—every song is a pixelated lightshow of live and electronic instrumentation.
  — Pitchfork, 6 Dec. 2023
• Radiance is altogether excellent, melding electronic and shoegaze, giving serious Tycho vibes and dropping via the venerable Alpha Pup.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 26 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 26 Aug 2024