Anonymous asked: Thoughts on Shoegaze?

I don’t know if I can summarize my thoughts on an entire genre of music very well, but I guess I’ll try. I like shoegaze. It’s a pretty broad-fitting term, but I really like a lot of the aesthetics that bands labeled as ‘shoegaze’ create. I think what shoegaze does/has done in a general sense is push the boundaries of how dense music can be, but I think that the best shoegaze records (My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless and Have a Nice Life’s Deathconsciousness come to mind immediately) still retain a sense of dynamics. They’re heavy and sonically assaulting, but there are also some really tender and relatively quiet moments as well. I like that balance. On some days, “Sometimes” is my favorite My Bloody Valentine song.