How to Use shoegaze in a Sentence

shoegaze

noun
  • This fall, the shoegaze legends will tour for the first time in seven years.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Their songs veered from new wave to post-punk, shoegaze and symphonic pop.
    — Andy Meek, Billboard, 17 July 2024
  • That wall of sound, which people call shoegaze, was very much up my alley.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Duster’s return demonstrates the way that shoegaze has morphed over time.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 14 Dec. 2023
  • This slowcore band called Duster, shoegaze rock, this avant-garde pop band called Broadcast.
    — Neena Rouhani, Billboard, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The band's sound combines elements of alt-rock, shoegaze, dream pop, and funk with traditional punk.
    — Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The emo band’s sophomore album took an unexpected turn towards shoegaze and post-punk that has become revered by fans.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Gretchen would much rather be back home, playing music with her Jesus-and-Mary-Chain–ish shoegaze band.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Garbage continues to write and record but is also conscious of its stature as one of the shoegaze sensations of the ‘90s.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 24 June 2022
  • Deceiver arrived at the perfect time, right before that style of heavy shoegaze had reached its saturation point.
    — Eli Enis, SPIN, 23 May 2024
  • Its title track is ethereal, crisp and cool, with Carucci crooning in a way that evokes early-’90s shoegaze.
    — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The whole conceit of Deceiver was the band’s attempt to make a proper shoegaze album after years of straddling the genre.
    — Eli Enis, SPIN, 23 May 2024
  • The emo band’s sophomore album took a turn toward shoegaze and post-punk that, while unexpected, was eventually revered by fans.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Now, the shoegaze legends are back with a fifth album led by singer-guitarists Rachel Goswell and Neil Halstead.
    — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Once dismissed as a Nineties fad, shoegaze has never stopped mutating and expanding as a musical language.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Sega Bodega) have created with their Arabic shoegaze duo is one swathed in chic esotericism and slow-burning eros.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 1 June 2026
  • Jane Remover is a trans polymath producer and singer-songwriter with influences across rave, shoegaze, trap and beyond.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
  • The veteran Midwest emo group’s fourth record traipses into somewhat novel post-rock, shoegaze, and math-y territory.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 1 May 2026
  • Many of the 2020 scene leaders have fled elsewhere, putting zoomer twists on genres like frantic jungle and gently unfurling shoegaze.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The site will feature five stages, across which the event will feature indie and experimental electronic music, along with post-punk, shoegaze, ambient and more.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 13 May 2025
  • The show, the second of two, was supported by Downward and Modern Color, which warmed the crowd with post-hardcore angst and emo-shoegaze.
    — Charlie Vargas, Oc Register, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Then the group adds in the best pop hooks to be found on any Slowdive album — and possibly any shoegaze album, period — and the result is staggering to behold.
    — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 13 May 2025
  • The North Carolina band’s blend of alt-country, alt-rock, and shoegaze was exactly what the doctor ordered on an overcast afternoon.
    — Daniel Kohn, Spin, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Dulgarian, the son of a dirt-track racer, epitomizes the restlessly innovative spirit that keeps shoegaze so vital.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Their two Creation records were both worthy additions to the shoegaze canon, and like Souvlaki, they mostly got lost in the Britpop shuffle.
    — Brady Gerber, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2021
  • In the six years since their last non-collaborative album, a new wave of young bands influenced by their crisp and orderly form of shoegaze have made the once-dormant genre one of the defining sounds of this decade.
    — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Slowdive These British rockers were among the leading figures on the shoegaze scene that did so much to shape the sound of British music in the early '90s.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2024
  • In the current moment, there’s this new heavy sound that feels like it was built on early-Nineties shoegaze, with fair amount of emo from the mid to late Nineties and a little bit of old-school punk rock in it.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2025
  • On Rat Saw God, the band reaches shoegaze transcendence, screamo heaven, and the kind of catharsis that leaves you exhausted in the most glorious way.
    — Pitchfork, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Powered by Will Anderson, the album is an exhilarating blend of driving indie and alt-rock, power-pop, and shoegaze.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 12 Dec. 2023

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