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Indie pop and shoegaze
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Genre
Indie pop and shoegaze · From the late 1970s small British labels such as Rough Trade and Creation released guitar music outside the big record companies: indie, short for independent. In 1986 the music paper NME put together a cassette of young bands, C86, which gave its name to the sweet indie pop. Around 1990 shoegaze emerged: bands such as My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive built walls of distorted, floating guitars, and on stage looked mostly at their effects pedals, at their shoes.
Listening
Listening tip. Listen to Only Shallow for the way the guitars become one undulating cloud of sound, with the vocals half hidden in it.
Only Shallow · My Bloody Valentine, 1991Apple Music ↗
Velocity Girl · Primal Scream, 1986Apple Music ↗
Alison · Slowdive, 1993Apple Music ↗
In School of Rock
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- Genre MapNL Map
See also
- Primal Scream
- Postpunk
- Alternative rock
- Psychedelic rock
- Indiefolk
- Post-rock
- Fuzz pedal
- Compact cassette
- TASCAM Portastudio
Categories: Genres