100 - Destroyer - Danโs Boogie
Peace out, 2025, your music has been ๐ฅ and all that has kept us sane quite a bit of the time. This album should provide topical relief, use only as instructed.
destroyer.bandcamp.com/album/dans-b...
100 - Destroyer - Danโs Boogie
Peace out, 2025, your music has been ๐ฅ and all that has kept us sane quite a bit of the time. This album should provide topical relief, use only as instructed.
destroyer.bandcamp.com/album/dans-b...
99 - Sugar For The Pill - Luv
Just name the band after a Slowdive song. (If you are Slowdive, choose a Siouxsie song.) Actually, if youโre going to join highspire later on, name your band after a Marc Almond song. Tears Run Rings is a solid band name.
sugar-for-the-pill.bandcamp.com/album/luv
98 - highspire - Crushed
As long as there has been shoegaze, people find it and decide to make more. Then the inevitable celebration of own scene, series of hiatuses, and formation of supergroups. 2000s edition.
highspire.bandcamp.com/album/crushed
97 - Animal Ghosts - Alexandraโs Band
Shoegaze all the way home from St. Louis. Going through all the recommendations from this year. By the time I got to this one, I had been driving through sideways rain for 5 hours. Is it all a dream?
animal-ghosts.bandcamp.com/album/alexan...
96 -Everything Else - Another One Making Clouds
Two kids go into a bedroom and come out with a shoegaze album.
bigpotatorecords.bandcamp.com/album/anothe...
95 - Snapped Ankles - Hard Times Furious Dancing
Beats and bleeps and words from the dystopian sci-fi present.
snappedankles.bandcamp.com/album/hard-t...
94 - Florence + the Machine - Everybody Scream
Some Florence for Christmas.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
93 - JuliaWhy? - dust suspended on a sunbeam
NSW stargaze.
juliawhy.bandcamp.com/album/dust-s...
92 - Lake Ruth - Hawking Radiation
They are telling me this is somewhere in the dream pop shoegaze realm, but Iโm not sure. Vocals are a bit dreamy, and the albumโs called Hawking Radiation. Slight Stereolab vibes?
lakeruth.bandcamp.com/album/hawkin...
91 - Nuclear Daisies - First Taste of Heaven
If shoegaze was mashed up with 90s electronic music from the UK. I swear I hear the Happy Mondays, the Chemical Brothers, and the Prodigy.
nucleardaisies.bandcamp.com/album/first-...
90 - Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE
Trying to figure out why I like this so much as the acoustic songwriter type stuff is not my thing. The SABLE tracks pull me in despite my preference for the space between the notes to be full of noise instead of quiet.
boniver.bandcamp.com/album/sable-...
89 - Miami Horror -We Always Had Tomorrow
Music to feel carefree to for a few minutes.
miamihorror.bandcamp.com/album/we-alw...
88 - Coast Arcade - Coast Arcade
Somehow we started finding this bandโs singles over the course of the year. In love with some of those guitar sounds. Then boom! Album drop.
coastarcade.bandcamp.com/album/coast-...
87 - Automatic - Is It Now?
New wave/post punk synth music with beats ranging from motorik to breakbeats. Cool.
automatic-band.bandcamp.com/album/is-it-...
86 - Sanketsu Tenshi Bungaku-Chan - Shinryo Gaka
And then Siren for Charlotte released this one. Some sort of graphic murder-themed post shoegaze to end all shoegaze.
eneiongaku.bandcamp.com/album/--8
85 - Goon - Dream 3
Mostly dreamy with one scream and an Alice In Chains riff.
gooon.bandcamp.com/album/dream-3
84 - Deep Sea Diver - Billboard Heart
Found some indie stuff that the wife liked, too.
thedeepseadiver.bandcamp.com/album/billbo...
83 - nerdneko- Stargazing Youth
Some more Siren for Charlotte Mikgazer. Use of Hatsune Miku is straightforward vocals rather than theโฆcreative things kinoue64 and Robounoishi do with her.
eneiongaku.bandcamp.com/album/starga...
82 - IDLES - Caught Stealing OST
Back to the Windmill, where IDLES evoke grimy 90s flicks like the Crow or Payback.
idlesband.bandcamp.com/album/caught...
81 - Cut Copy - Moments
Havenโt checked in with ANOTHER Moogfest 2011 band in a while. Not quite the hooks of the likes of Hearts on Fire or Need You Now, but nice for a Friday drive home.
cutcopy.bandcamp.com/album/moments
80 - yeule - Evangelic Girl is a Gun
What music of the 2020s was supposed to sound like, according to 90s music and sci-fi.
yeule.bandcamp.com/album/evange...
79 - Metrik - Awake
(Not Metric) ALT BLK ERA had me digging for some drum step. I think I code better with DnB than with caffeine and sugar. Especially with a bit of wobble and tracks where the only lyric is โSIMULATION.โ Favorite track - Simulation
metrikmusic.bandcamp.com/album/awake
78 - Bleary Eyed - Easy
Shoegaze that starts out with almost new wave sounds mixed in and ends up with some power/grunge guitar.
blearyeyed.bandcamp.com/album/easy
77 - Chatham Rise - Trillium
Dreamy, spacy shoegaze from MN.
chathamrise.bandcamp.com/album/trillium
76 - haloplus+ - Musicality
More New Copenhagen School. Somehow, I enjoy these and Smerz, but Snuggle isnโt really clicking for me.
haloplus.bandcamp.com/album/musica...
75 - Totorro - Sofa So Good
Maybe math rock from France.
totorro.bandcamp.com/album/sofa-s...
74 - Smerz - Big City Life
New Copenhagen School. Chessboard floor in album art.
smerzforyou.bandcamp.com/album/big-ci...
73 - Robounoishi - Vocaloid Youth
Mikgazer time. I mean, Hatsune Miku Riotโฆ
robounoishi.bandcamp.com/album/vocalo...
72 - Plastic Girl in Closet - High Heart
Whatโs a good song title for a Japanese shoegaze song? How about, โRamune River?โ
pgic.bandcamp.com/album/high-h...
71 - HONESTY - U R HERE
Needed December weather for music this overcast. Track 2 sounds like if AIC did trip hop. Track 6 comes in like the sun splitting the clouds, low on the southern horizon.
honestyrhere.bandcamp.com/album/u-r-here