Shoegaze Favourites – hear what's hot! This playlist, refreshed regularly, features my top 30 shoegaze tracks of 2025. It's all about highlighting the best under-the-radar bands (mostly) you might miss in my other huge playlists. From dreamy to heavy, soft to grungy, these songs are all killer. Think of this as your shoegaze starter pack, a taste of the best new music. Enjoy!

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Playlistcover: LABYRINTHINE OCEANS from Newcastle upon Tyne, UK • Photo by Gracie Hall

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November 1, 2025

Awesome songs and some unknown treasures from around the world - discover some fantastic shoegaze tracks!

• Artist: Labyrinthine Oceans (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
• Song: automata (single, October 8)

• Artist: Dutch Gunderson (Washington, D.C.) 
• Song: Around (taken from the album 'Spin', October 31)
• Artist: MISFIRE (San Diego, California)
• Song: don't you feel strange (single, October 3)

• Artist: Lemondaze (Cambridge, UK)
• Song: polari (single, October 29)
• Artist: THE VIRGINIA PLANES (Heidelberg, Germany)
• Song: Cause Of Last Summer (single, October 24)
• Artist: Old Coke (Chicago, Illinois)
• Song: Uncertain (taken from ep 'Blood Orange', October 28)
• Artist: Last Light (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
• Song: Paradise (taken from the ep 'Paradise', October 24)
• Artist: Maud Anyways (France)
• Song: A World Away (taken from the album 'Echoes of Encounters', October 24)
• Artist: Skyless (Dublin, Ireland)
• Song: Gasoline (single, October 28)
• Artist: Salvana (Barcelona, Spain)
• Song: Letargo (taken from the album 'Reversia', October 3)
• Artist: Baleen (Northampton, Massachusetts)
• Song: Floating Just a Little Bit (single, October 31)
• Artist: Static Trip (Aurora, Illinois)
• Song: Awake (single, September 19)
• Artist: Mumrunner (Tampere, Finland)
• Song: Cat State (taken from the album 'Yearning Hearts', September 17)
• Artist: Hollow Street (Warsaw, Poland)
• Song: It Will Never Be the Same (single, October 22)
• Artist: Diffident Daffodils (Los Angeles, California)
• Song: Candy (single, October 10)
• Artist: keepsake (Austin, Texas)
• Song: Yearning (single, October 21)
• Artist: Farewell Days (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
• Song: FOLD (single, October 10)
• Artist: Telephonist (Dortmund, Germany)
• Song: Ins Blau (single, October 31)
• Artist: Deer Fang (Ontario, Canada)
• Song: Tasting Blood (single, October 16)
• Artist: Backwards Charm (Vienna, Austria)
• Song: I Feel Nothing (single, October 31)
• Artist: Kallai (Portland, Oregon)
• Song: Amor Occidit Omnia (taken from the album 'We Are Forever', October 17)
• Artist: Novus Moon (San Francisco, California)
• Song: Baby Blues (single, August 29)
• Artist: softsurf (Aichi, Japan)
• Song: Cosmic Eyes (taken from the album 'Gazing at a Mind', October 29) 
• Artist: Oliver Beardmore (Birmingham, UK) feat. Punchlove (Brooklyn, New York)
• Song: Ammonite (single, October 16)
• Artist: The Midnight Greetings (Cebu, Philippines)
• Song: Waves (taken from the album 'Drench', October 31)
• Artist: Trillion (Sydney, Australia)
• Song: Something (Like This) (taken from the album 'Feel Alright', October 10)
• Artist: Whaleboat (Savannah, Georgia)
• Song: Mountains & Canyons (single, October 17)
• Artist: In The Afterglow (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
• Song: Can You Feel Me (taken from the album 'Let The Waves Crash Down', October 24)
• Artist: Hazelene (Leeds, UK)
• Song: Something Positive (single, October 24)
• Artist: Honey I'm Home (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Song: Insecure (single, October 24)
• Artist: In Athens (Galway, Ireland)
• Song: Expiration Marks (taken from the ep 'Mirrorism', October 24)
• Artist: COUNTERFLOW (Brussel, Belgium)
• Song: Hysteria (single, October 10)

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This service and website is dedicated to all those who love shoegaze and its many offshoots, such as grungegaze, heavygaze, emogaze, countrygaze, American shoegaze, slowgaze, and countless other variations. It's designed for fans of bands like My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Mazzy Star, Cocteau Twins, Ride, Lush, Whirr, Alcest, Jesus and Mary Chain, Fleshwater, DIIV, Deerhunter, Galaxy 500, Drop Nineteens, Curve, Nothing, Just Mustard, Pale Saints, Catherine Wheel, trauma ray, julie, Bethany Curve, Secret Shine, Hundredth, A Shoreline Dream, When The Sun Hits, and many more.

Shoegaze, a genre that emerged from the 1980s, remains incredibly relevant today. Often described as dreamlike music, it is characterized by dense yet melodic, multi-layered guitar walls created with the help of electronic effects and synthesizers. These compositions frequently alternate with quieter passages that rely more on reverb, flanger, and feedback effects rather than distortion.

Shoegaze is alive and well! With my playlists on Spotify, there are countless bands from around the world waiting to be discovered.