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โธ 1988โ1995
Wall of Sound
Guitars like weather, vocals like fog.
Pedalboards the size of coffee tables and vocals buried so deep they became another guitar. The sound of staring at your shoes while the room dissolved into reverb.
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โธ Did you know
- British music weeklies coined 'shoegazing' as an insult โ the bands barely moved onstage, eyes fixed on their pedals โ and the scene wore it like a badge.
- Melody Maker dubbed the early-'90s acts 'The Scene That Celebrates Itself' because they all went to one another's gigs; Britpop's brasher hooks soon shoved it aside.