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

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 June 2nd, 2025

This 'Shoegaze Top 30 favourites' issue is all about - women! Extremely wonderful songs by great female artists (mostly) and bands that are definitely worth listening to in this crisp, short playlist. Fantastic new releases from:

• Artist: Labyrinthine Oceans (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) 
• Song: heaven (new single, April 23)

• Artist: Youlogy (Del Rio, Texas) 
• Song: NEWSFLASH (single, May 1). Heavy stuff!
• Artist: Dutch Gunderson (Washington, D.C.)
• Song: Hold My Hand in the Sky (debut single, May 2). A timeless beauty!

• Artist: Dovetail (Grand Rapids, MI)
• Song: Tempest (debut single, May 3)

• Artist: Bleach Lab (London, UK)
• Song: Feel Something (single, April 23)
• Artist: Keep (Virginia, US)
• Song: Hurt a Fly (single, released April 23)
• Artist: supergloom (Los Angeles, CA)
• Song: Kingfisher (single, April 22)
• Artist: Vivid Bloom (Boston, MA)
• Song: Under the Sound (single, May 2)
• Artist: ADORER (Sydney/ Eora, Australia)
• Song: Loathe (single, May 8)
• Artist: Truck Bed (Richmond, VA)
• Song: Blue Iris (single, May 9)
• Artist: Ariel Void (Ceará, Brasil)
• Song: Freefall (single, May 9)
• Artist: Shunkan (Los Angeles, CA)
• Song: Talk Is Cheap (taken from the album 'Kamikaze Girl', May 6)
• Artist: Twin Rains (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
• Song: The Evil That You Know (Let It Go) (single, May 5)
• Artist: Sugar For The Pill (Athens, Greece)
• Song: Cherry Blossom (taken from album 'LUV', May 23)
• Artist: dievanse (Montreal, Canada)
• Song: Slow Dancing (single, May 13)
• Artist: Wildernesses (London, UK)
• Song: Four Hour Drive (single, May 7)
• Artist: Kitchen Knives (New Braunfels, Tx)
• Song: If It's Not Gonna Be You (taken from the album 'Taurus', May 16)
• Artist: Salvana (Barcelona, Spain)
• Song: Espiral (single, May 27)
• Artist: Silver Cage (Vicenza, Italy)
• Song: Tired Eyes (debut single, May 29)
• Artist: YEAHRS (Berlin, Germany)
• Song: Out of Space (single, May 30)
• Artist: Taleen Kali (Los Angeles, CA)
• Song: Aepex (single, June 1) Shoegaze meets Psychedelica
• Artist: Moonwards (Helsinki, Finland)
• Song: Make Amends (taken from the ep 'Moonwards II', May 16)

• Artist: Lost Velvet (Reading, UK) 
• Song: Endless (single, April, 25)
• Artist: Slow Salvation (New Jersey)
• Song: Japan (taken from the album 'Gemini', May 30)
• Artist: THE VIRGINIA PLANES (Heidelberg, Germany)
• Song: Brighter Shades Of Gold (single, May 23)
• Artist: Logos Lunares (Manaus, Brazil)
• Song: Vc (single, May 30) 
• Artist: Thelma's Dream (Helsinki, Finland)
• Song: From The Heights (taken from the self-titled debut album, April 25)
• Artist: Shades of Violette (Washington, D.C., US)
• Song: Save Some For Me (taken from the album 'Spiritsense', March 29)  
• Artist: hazy waters (London (England), UK)
• Song: overdose (single, April 25)
• Artist: mariin k (Tallinn, Estonia)
• Song: beach (taken from the album 'rose skin', May 8)
• Artist: Commemorate (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
• Song: Away (taken from the self titled album, May 30)

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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.