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- adjective rare, informal, music Having elements of the
shoegaze style.
Etymologies
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Examples
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We don't see quite where he plants it, but it should be the Reading festival circa 1992, as this couldn't be more shoegazey if it tried.
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San Franciso's Tamaryn provides the score for the minute-and-a-half film, whose epically lush, shoegazey track "Cascades" ripples over each cascading wave caught on film.
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I love its blend of Britpop with loud shoegazey guitars and synths.
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Abducted is brilliant, harmonic west coast pop with a creepy shoegazey edge and a Shangri-Las beat.
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Abducted is brilliant, harmonic west coast pop with a creepy shoegazey edge and a Shangri-Las beat.
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The third album from this trio of New York transplants has the same epic, atmospheric sound as the first two — loud, polyphonic keyboards layered with shoegazey guitars.
Buy It, Steal It, Skip It: Music Releases for the Week of October 14: Bill Bradley Bradley, Bill 2008
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Teenage Kicks drifts by in a shoegazey haze that’s only interrupted by one jarring sound: that of John Peel spinning in his grave.
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Brad P., a college friend, lead singer of a really good shoegazey kind of band.
luvabeans Diary Entry luvabeans 2003
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Featuring shoegazey beats and electronic experimentation, the vocals of Valerie Reyes add to the band's dynamic allure.
AvaxHome 2010
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The track rises and swells, the shoegazey peach fuzz texture nodding to the likes of Nathan Fake, rising irresistibly to bursting point before almost popping with a pleasurable sigh, only to slide back into the dramatic hip hop bass line to start all over again.
Drowned In Sound // Feed Alex Baker 2010
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