Noise-rock, dream-pop, post-punk, drone-rock, neo-psychedelia…all of these musical subgenres and more became components of the shoegaze sound. The term itself was rather derisively coined by the press to describe a certain group of musicians’ tendencies to stare down at their feet while performing – partly out of introspection, partly out of necessity to operate guitar effects pedals. But the “shoegaze” term stuck, and so did the music. Still in a Dream: A Story of Shoegaze, a lavish, hardcover book-style 5-CD box set, arrived last month from Cherry Red Records. It celebrates the…
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