Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
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Kitchens of Distinction is shoegaze with rather shimmering guitars. Their album "Strange Free World" is good, but while "Death of Cool" has perfected their unique shoegaze appeal, while it has some fantastic songs, that one has more gay crap. If you want the KoD sound but without the gay stuff, I definitely recommend Airiel. In an interview, the guitarist flat out admitted that he wants to make KoD-style guitar music to get chicks. If you're up for 10 minutes of fantastic guitar in a sentimental love song by Airiel, listen to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4zM49AcfLg
For Christian shoegaze, the first two Starflyer 59 albums, Silver and Gold, fit the bill, but are a bit on the heavier guitar sound rather than the warm fuzzy sound.
The first two albums by Russian band Pinkshinyultrablast are fantastic (plus the EP leading up to those), but unfortunately they went full-on dance music and got boring. From the Philippines came a phenomenal shoegaze band called Moscow Olympics that matched New Order-style basslines with Pet Shop Boys-style vocals. They released one incredible album in which each song just got better and better than the first, and then the band just disappeared. I even tried reaching out to fans in the Philippines and nobody there knows what happened to them. Sad.
For the original shoegaze scene, a lot of the bands were all friends with each other. Lush, Chaapterhouse, Pale Saints and Moose all got along with each other, which gave the shoegaze scene the moniker "the scene that celebrates itself." Shoegaze was a bit of a derogatory term initially, but has since then become far more appreciated for its impact on music.