Single: Modern Leisure – you can count on me
Modern Leisure has garnered the ability to hold the feeling of pure joy in his hands, bottle it, and infuse it into this track to the point of overflow.
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Single: Peli Gene – Fall
Guitar melodies jingle and sparkle like confetti, creating an almost psychedelic vibe that coats your brain with heavy syrup.
Single: airhockey – melt
“melt” feels magical, with twinkly guitars and a tambourine that is truly glitter in its personified form
Single: GREEN EERIE – Stay With You
What I love about shoegaze is the ability artists have to use their voice as another layer of sound that rides the surface of the atmosphere they’ve curated, and GREEN EERIE does this masterfully.
Album: Club 8 – Weeks of Golden Beats
Club 8 are professionals at creating a chic atmosphere, with hints of something that resembles indie shoegaze with a “beachy” undertone.
Album: Azure Rose – Blue Drops
“Blue Drops” is a cohesive hodge-podge of shoegaze, dream pop, and indie rock, with a dash of folk that checks every box in my brain for a promising record.
Single: Bobby Edge – Is That Weed Wrapped In A Wendy’s Napkin
Is That Weed Wrapped In A Wendy’s Napkin? has bright sounding instrumentals, beaming vocals, and lyrics that paint a picture of existential crisis and a yearning to escape
Single: Damn Shame – Making Habits
Making Habits does a fantastic job of shining the light of awareness on these almost self-destructive patterns (or habits) we can fall into as people craving change and progress, highlighting the lack of follow-through that would ultimately lead us to who or where we want to be
Single: Cold Shoulders – Break the waves
This song has mentions of “tomorrow” and points to the future as its salvation, optimistic with a dash or two of naivety.
Single: The Moat – Beach Cars
Bright and shiny guitars melt with a groovy bassline and serve as a perfect background for vocals that can be best described as warm and almost sultry, yet full and intentional.
Single: airhockey – nice day
The feeling they invoke is quiet, inexplicable, and intangible; the way the best feelings are experienced.
Single: Lamplight – Clover
Clover reminds me about the importance of leaning into life and accepting it just as it is, never forgetting to be grateful for the ability to experience this blip in time.
Single: Ethereal Gone Kids – She’s Way Too Cool
…reminds me of falling into an endless whirlpool of pure hypnotic entrancement.
Single: D.L. Forrest – Can’t Sleep (ft. Runner)
As I get older, I find myself exploring different genres and drifting more and more
EP: Mary’s White Lie – Stable of Stone
The new EP from the Orlando group will scratch the itch of any shoegaze fun with its perfectly crafted ambience and surprising twists on its own songs.
Single: The Danphes – Distance
The Danphes sound like a group of friends making the kind of music they genuinely love, and that sincerity shines through in every second.
Single: GRAZER – A Wretch Like You
The sounds of heaven have flown down from their peak and planted their roots in
Single: Christopher Green – The Moon Is Going For A Swim
Trapped at home as the temperatures drop below 30 degrees (Fahrenheit) in FL is the
Single: Ceylon Sailor – one kind of lullaby
Already exhausted and tired of 2026? Then this new release by Ceylon Sailor needs to