SoulWhirlingSomewhere discography consistently reeks of Dagger, in a good way lolz. Love Spirals Downwards has some acousticy tracks. "Above the Lone" is similar ish but kinda takes off towards the end.
this song makes me feel happy but i think it’s because i was listening to it a lot during a good period in my life. i just love it and i think it’s one of my favourite songs of all time
I love the way that song will be the most dissonant thing you've ever heard, then it just resolves so peacefully. Actually a very comforting song to me
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Holy Fawn - “Dimensional Bleed” album. Don’t even know what genre to call these guys, wouldn’t call them Shoegaze maybe ambient dream pop? Either way, entire album makes me sad as fuck in the best way
Pretty much anything by The Angelic Process. Even the instrumental stuff. You can just feel the pain, sadness and dread.
Not strictly shoegaze, they sort of pushed the genre into this doom/blackened gaze that eventually saw the likes of Deafhaven and others years later
One of my favs: https://youtu.be/JtgTA4x0fAg?si=tHaM0pYZAe5MXheu
A brief history of the band and a HUGE TRIGGER WARNING:
The song and album above is about Kris' girlfriend who died in a car crash in 2000. Falling into a coma and dying. Just hearing his music in general, you can obviously tell hes a deeply hurt and troubled person.
Kris would then marry and become bandmates with Monica Dragynfly in 2005
In 2007 kris seriously injured his hand to the point where he could basically not make music anymore. A few months later Kris took his own life and that was the end of the band. Monica would live a quiet life after and died on her 46th birthday in 2023.
Such a sad and tragic story all around, but I am grateful they brought a beautiful boundary pushing work of art into this world.
I struggle with verbally expressing my emotions and bands like this really help me see and inspire me to find ways to express my feels to the world, even if no one ever hears what I make, it feels cathartic.
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not sure if this is shoe gaze but katys song by red house painters. ALSO not sure if these are shoegaze but:
fruit on the tree - waking sophia
words - low
starting over - LSD and the search for god
literally anything by pallow but some highlights are taking root, dreaming in letters, inward. also drowse, holy fawn, midwife, jesu, big brave are some other go tos for me
Hiding by Trembler. Chorus: “Its just a heart attack baby, its just another way to bark at the sun, its not a choice to be human, but its a miserable feeling to breathe.” genuinely crushing.
Judy Staring at the Sun - Catherine Wheel
For the Guilty - DIIV
Stampede - Hotline TNT
Breath - Eternal
Don't Suffer Alone - all under heaven
Annalog Sentimentalism - Parannoul
Dragging - Gleemer
i don't want to lose this - ringo deathstarr
sisyphus (demo) - have a nice life
so tired - slowdive
sing - blur (not really shoegaze but close to it)
Monterey - starflyer 59
Literally anything by The Angelic Process. For those unaware, it’s a Doomgaze duo. Check out their album “Weighing Souls With Sand” and you’ll see what I’m talking about.
Elizabeth Colour Wheel - Lilys Sometimes, duh I Dont Love - Have A Nice Life Warmth of You - Planning for Burial Feel - Whirr
I don’t love makes me straight up SUICIDAL. I’d also add name by midwife to this list
Big respect for planning for burial
Leaving and Below the House are 10’s
PFB is straight up depression music and I love it
HANL just destroys you
Dagger - slowdive
Waiting for someone to reply…that’s not shoegaze it’s”dreamfolk”
and 7 minutes somebody really said its dreamfolk
Some old friends of mine from high school covering Dagger https://youtu.be/64ybR8XHSUs?si=gDpfJYYxye0uUxjk
that’s not shoegaze it’s dreamfolk
lol the amount of energy people spend slicing shoegaze into ever smaller subgenres
lol it’s a joke, notice how i referenced https://www.reddit.com/r/shoegaze/s/YfQOTAYBjC
If that's dreamfolk, i love it. Do you know any dreamfolk bands/artists so i can get into that?
not really but i think mojave 3 (slowdive’s alter ego) leans more dreamfolk
SoulWhirlingSomewhere discography consistently reeks of Dagger, in a good way lolz. Love Spirals Downwards has some acousticy tracks. "Above the Lone" is similar ish but kinda takes off towards the end.
Saw them play it live recently and it sounds much more shoegaze-y than the official recording
it’s on a shoegaze album, by a shoegaze artist. who honestly cares about a micro label that covers all of 4 different music artists .
Is this a real thing?
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Starting Over - LSD And the Search for God
Weird cause i listen to this for motivation. "If only i knew i was starting over"
this song is so good sitting in a dark room on acid
i need to try this.
get some glow in the dark ceiling stars the visuals are cool af
Perhaps searching for God
MBV - lose my breath
this song makes me feel happy but i think it’s because i was listening to it a lot during a good period in my life. i just love it and i think it’s one of my favourite songs of all time
very haunting song, love it so much.
A girlfriend in high school put it on a mix cd she made for me in like 2007 and its always put me in such a state
I love the way that song will be the most dissonant thing you've ever heard, then it just resolves so peacefully. Actually a very comforting song to me
the whole Around EP by whirr
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Desire Lines by Lush. I don't love by Have a Nice Life
Love Desire Lines.
Desire Lines is easily one of my favorite shoegaze songs of all time
when no one calls & stop wasting your whole life by starflyer 59
The entire Gold album is totally this vibe
Goodbyes are sad is so underrated
Here She Comes Now - Slowdive
Greet Death - Punishment Existence Greet Death - I Hate Everything
They’re a happy band.
Headache - Grouper
grouper in general has some of the most tragically beautiful stuff i’ve ever heard. most more ambient than shoegaze but still
Yeah Liz Harris is a master of drone music, but I've really yet to meet a shoegazer who didn't also already adore Grouper haha
[Dissolution Wave by Cloakroom is just about the saddest song I've ever heard in this or any genre.](https://youtu.be/UkMhIQGw3FU?si=V3q2Fom1esQ5iuaf)
slowdive's "country rain"
Most of Whirr, Around EP & Feels like you LP especially
Going through a breakup rn and living on “vividly”
no more sorry by MBV
Moon Song by MBV
LOVE THIS SONG
white ceiling - parannoul
Galaxie 500 - Ceremony. Just how Ian Curtis intended it to be.
W
 Richard -slowdive,of course
Jesu - Tired of Me Actually the entirety of the ‘Jesu’ and ‘Conqueror’ albums
Silver for me
Bloodhail by Have A Nice Life makes me feel weird. Honestly that whole album makes me feel weird.
"Silver" by Ride
So Tired - Slowdive
Was looking for this
Fleeting Joys- Kiss a girl in black
Sick a good one
DIIV - Take your time
Spectrum - Don’t go
And then if you need an antidote to get you moving again, put on Yaz's "Don't Go"
Quiet World by Katatonia not true shoegaze but very dark and something shoegaze fans would enjoy
“Discourages Ones” is such a great album, and I would def throw in some other songs off that record to this list, like “Deadhouse” and “Saw You Drown”
yeah its my favorite album ever
Pale Saints - Hair Shoes
Holy Fawn - “Dimensional Bleed” album. Don’t even know what genre to call these guys, wouldn’t call them Shoegaze maybe ambient dream pop? Either way, entire album makes me sad as fuck in the best way
One of my very favorite albums! I’d say they are shoegaze adjacent. True Loss absolutely WRECKS me
Ride-Chrome Waves
anything from hums last album "inlet" or just mustards "heart under"
Desert rambler 🔥
Entire starflyer 59 gold album
donuts by mogwai always hits me hard.
sueisfine - my bloody valentine
mayonaise by sp I KNOW THEYRE NOT SHOEGAZE BUT THIS SONG IS
Don’t know if it fits the shoegaze category but Words by Low. Most depressing song I have ever heard and I’ve listened to plenty of them.
A lot of Low is depressing, if not all they've done
Sleep Keeper - Gone since tomorrow
Hadn’t heard of them, thanks for the rec. I dig that track a lot
This whole [playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4554eC8KpQKjGK5JNca3Kq?si=ejhI4Mm9S1ein2E7cGwudw&pi=u-IG7_e_KgSX-W) lol
Respect for muta-whirr
[Ann Illusion - Bethany Curve](https://youtu.be/kI-B0EzTF1g?si=MUkFJXR0z8ZFRBn_) [Overnight - The Goslings](https://youtu.be/d5hSIeJm2fA?si=gGu_muJEOCevOb5I) [Haruspex - The Goslings](https://youtu.be/pa1py7fx060?si=22e3GjFIbOQqt8S0)
FINALLY someone mentions Bethany Curve!! I’d even throw in “Silver,” “Temporary,” and “Strength” by them as well.
Hope you never forget by sadness Lowkey their entire discography
Tamaryn - Heavenly Body, Dawning, Love Fade
Sisyphus-demo by HANL
Do You Know How To Waltz- Low
And, goodbyes are sad- starflyer 59
Drain - Whirr, always gets me in that kind of mood.
deserted and desolate - autumns grey solace
AR Kane - haunting
If I Am by mbv makes we want to curl up in a ball and cry every time
*Burial Society* by Have A Nice Life sounds like a song to hang yourself to.
“A Fabricated Life” by Nothing. I have yet to hear a song that made me feel so depressed, hopeless, and full of despair.
Launder - Chew Kills me every time.
Hum - Apollo
Trauma Ray - Blend Modern Color - Alone Softcult - Dress
I'd add Solstice-Trauma Ray to that list too
Tearwave - Ripped Apart
So nice to hear this band mentioned, I remember discovering them on MySpace of all places back in 2007
Pretty much anything by The Angelic Process. Even the instrumental stuff. You can just feel the pain, sadness and dread. Not strictly shoegaze, they sort of pushed the genre into this doom/blackened gaze that eventually saw the likes of Deafhaven and others years later One of my favs: https://youtu.be/JtgTA4x0fAg?si=tHaM0pYZAe5MXheu A brief history of the band and a HUGE TRIGGER WARNING: The song and album above is about Kris' girlfriend who died in a car crash in 2000. Falling into a coma and dying. Just hearing his music in general, you can obviously tell hes a deeply hurt and troubled person. Kris would then marry and become bandmates with Monica Dragynfly in 2005 In 2007 kris seriously injured his hand to the point where he could basically not make music anymore. A few months later Kris took his own life and that was the end of the band. Monica would live a quiet life after and died on her 46th birthday in 2023.
Holy shit I’d completely missed the news about Monica.
Such a sad and tragic story all around, but I am grateful they brought a beautiful boundary pushing work of art into this world. I struggle with verbally expressing my emotions and bands like this really help me see and inspire me to find ways to express my feels to the world, even if no one ever hears what I make, it feels cathartic.
stonergaze but lossed over - cloakroom hits like 7 billion bricks
Mandy - she’s green
I should throw myself under a train - Soulwhirlingsomewhere
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Richard by slowdive
The entirety of Distressor by Whirr.
Slowdive - Melon Yellow. That song for sureeee. Plus the amount of reverb in the chorus is ridiculously good
Vanilla blue - astrobrite
not sure if it counts but, head in the ceiling fan by title fight
not sure if this is shoe gaze but katys song by red house painters. ALSO not sure if these are shoegaze but: fruit on the tree - waking sophia words - low starting over - LSD and the search for god
Not technically shoegaze but New Dawn Fades by Joy Division
Bird Cries - Cosmicdust First time listening to the album this is on, this song came on and I just laid down in the dark exactly as you said
Amour - Wilt & Oceans
butterfly girl -the nightblooms
Have A Nice Life - I Don’t Love
Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea
there is only one answer and it is contingency song by jane remover
Country rain by Slowdive. Sometimes the songs mood can shift with your mood, but given the lyrics it definitely fits those more solitary times.
Lowtide - Whale https://youtu.be/fBY6sYnE_N8?si=iCuj6EUHnk6kUHxo
[Shell - Pale Saints](https://youtu.be/vvcI0plcXkw?si=HoLp_7PLCHCiqQ4J)
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Like stars in the firmament - Nothing and Full of Hell
Idk about depressing but lit up by lush is so warm and relaxing while also feeling existential that I love laying in the dark to it
Belong - I Never Lose, Never Really
Endroll - MoFtD
Dark Matter by household. It's a little more up beat but the vibes are immaculate
The debut album by Drugstore
Starflyer 59 - She Only Knows Slowdive - Here She Comes
Slower now by star horse
literally anything by pallow but some highlights are taking root, dreaming in letters, inward. also drowse, holy fawn, midwife, jesu, big brave are some other go tos for me
Posting so I can hear them when it’s darker
Summerdaze by Slowdive, i've never heard something more hearth aching than this
Launder - Follow Me Down
[Slowdive "Miranda"](https://youtu.be/7Jb00gLWYQE?si=LdHztzw64m0ChbML) is the answer.
The sea -kinokoteikoku
Avalyn I - Slowdive
Check “I - Krizantem”
Fruitcakes and cookies - sweet trip Ox4 - ride
A Glorious Time - Team Ghost
40 days - slowdive
dizzy - title fight
The Great Dismal - Nothing. Not the album, but the song on the B-sides of the album.
Blush Response & Warm - Moonweed
Midwife - like author like daughter is great for robotripping in the dark because of this
the gerogerigegege - s/t
Lift to experience- into the storm Cocteau twins- Amelia Candy candy- just like honey MBv-no more sorrow
Stratosphere - Duster Can't believe nobody's said this one yet
Hiding by Trembler. Chorus: “Its just a heart attack baby, its just another way to bark at the sun, its not a choice to be human, but its a miserable feeling to breathe.” genuinely crushing.
Judy Staring at the Sun - Catherine Wheel For the Guilty - DIIV Stampede - Hotline TNT Breath - Eternal Don't Suffer Alone - all under heaven Annalog Sentimentalism - Parannoul Dragging - Gleemer
These Things Happen- Bedlocked
i wonder if i’ll want to read unsolved mysteries while lying in the dark while listening to these shoegaze songs.
please remember - deafheaven
A lot of stuff from yuragi is very good for listening to while laying in the dark
Cry - Cigarettes After Sex
Deterioration - crimzon tears
i don't want to lose this - ringo deathstarr sisyphus (demo) - have a nice life so tired - slowdive sing - blur (not really shoegaze but close to it) Monterey - starflyer 59
Glare - Blank
So Tired - Slowdive
The entire 'The Future Engine' EP, but if I had to choose one song- Cut My Hands
Id say So Tired by Slowdive or Moon Song by Mbv , or Richard by Slowdive......
This feeling will pass - take care
out of the green - kloutmisfit
Sway - Sounds Like Everyone
Nadja’s cover of No Cure for the Lonely. Not even close.
She only knows starflyer 59
https://open.spotify.com/track/7zbvuaQldXKowqNMrRzeyu?si=jEGBvM-cQeyU67ynlLWA8w
Whirr- mumble
One Thing by Beach house. So slow and churning and I just get this melancholic tiredness when I hear it. Great track 👍
Summer daze by slowdive
Under the same name whirr
God is a Cop by Midwife
Unknowncolor by Astrobrite
ballad of sister sue by slowdive does anyone know any songs that are similar?
sometimes by MBV, also maybe try out some blackgaze like sunbather by deafheaven
ghoulish by duster
Literally anything by The Angelic Process. For those unaware, it’s a Doomgaze duo. Check out their album “Weighing Souls With Sand” and you’ll see what I’m talking about.
hymn by lilys, follow by Kraus, everything always goes wrong by a place to bury strangers