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'''Shoegazing''' is a subgenre of alternative rock and Alternative Dance that was pioneered and popularised by [[My Bloody Valentine (band)|My Bloody Valentine]] in the late 1980s-early 1990s. It's basically [[Psychedelic Rock]] taken [[Up to Eleven]], with a sound characterised by a huge wall of guitars playing drone-based riffs, breathy [[Perishing Alt Rock Voice]] singing, pounding drumming and a mix that builds up everything into a huge wall of sound where the individual instruments blend together. In addition, a danceable undercurrent tends to lie beneath this wall of sound (some bands emphasised this to the point of straddling the line between shoegaze and Madchester). In short, a perfect combination of aggressive and dreamy.
While shoegazing is basically [[Psychedelic Rock]] taken [[Up to Eleven]], it was influenced by [[Dream Pop]]'s emphasis on sound over actual song, and indie [[Noise Rock]] bands such as [[Sonic Youth]], [[Dinosaur Jr.]], [[The Jesus and Mary Chain]] and [[Velvet Underground]].
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