Sunday, March 16, 2014

what is it about Shoegaze

I've been thinking about this a bit lately. What do I hear in SG that attracts me so much? I think it is a really advanced form of music. It fills the space in a very noisy way.  The noise has emergent properties.  The noisiness is like clay.  It can be molded in very sublime ways. There are deliberately beautiful threads in a lot of SG: namely the use of very airy, soprano female vocals. This is a contrast but also a sort of adjuvant or catalyst. There is something akin to abstract expressionism in the application of these sounds together.  That's all I have on this for now...

1 comment:

Darren said...

Well said. On an obtuse tangent, have you heard The Conet Project (https://archive.org/details/ird059)? The recordings of numbers stations collected by the Project are have a similar dreamy atmosphere and scratchy lushness.