Exploring Estonia’s place in the recent shoegaze revival

NATALIE JENKINS

A symphony of dreamy, distorted, melancholic noise is what defines the shoegaze genre.

The amorphous, overwhelmingly loud guitar effects (including reverb, echoes, and heavy distortion) create a wash of sound that buries atmospheric vocals. Meant to be accompanying melodies to the intimate fabric of noise, lyrics are often unintelligible, putting listeners in a hypnotic dream-like trance.

Shoegaze’s sound originated in the UK during the late 1980s and is inspired by a melting pot of earlier musical movements, including the psychedelia of the 1960s, 1970s post-punk, and 1980s American noise rock.

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