De-Luxe: Cherry Red Chronicles The Sound of Shoegaze On “Still in a Dream” Box Set

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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