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Shoegaze Favourites – hear what's hot! Updated monthly with at least 30 fresh shoegaze tracks. Discover the best new releases that truly blow you away. Your monthly starter pack for the most gripping new music! 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... Send me your favorite tracks below – I'm always looking for new gems!

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July 1, 2026

The World of Shoegaze... here are the absolute best releases from July 2026: (in alphabetical order)

• A Day in Venice (Italy) • Track name: Hear Me
• Abandoned Buildings (England) • Track name: Catching Ideas
• Adeline (Rhode Island) • Track name: Johnstown Flood
• Ancient Channels (Australia) • Track name: Hex Beat
• angel egg (Poland) • Track name: violence is a number
• Attic Ocean (Germany) • Track name: Sun
• Backwards Charm (Austria) • Track name: Against the Grain
• BLEU REINE (France) • Track name: Cavalier Seul
• Butterfly Explosion (Ireland) • Track name: Swallowed by Stars
• cherry pick (British Columbia) • Track name: white fur
• Chitin (New Jersey) • Track name: Graveller
• Dalmatia (California) • Track name: Calloused
• Deer Fang (Ontario) • Track name: Forest For The Trees
• Dog silent (Russia) • Track name: Loverly
• Dollpile (Colorado) • Track name: Fingernail
• Dr. Horsehead (California) • Track name: Alone Together
• Esterea (Argentina) • Track name: Medianeras
• Eversame (Slovakia) • Track name: fireflies
• Florence Besch (Germany) • Track name: Horror House
• French Film (Texas) • Track name: Rabbit Foot
• funsover (Germany) • Track name: Needles
• Ghost Bookstore (South Korea) • Track name: ChatterBox
• Gill (England) • Track name: Coat of Arms
• Glimmer (New York) • Track name: Someday Sunshine
• Gluecose (Italy) • Track name: Teach a man
• grima (Germany) • Track name: spiritbug
• Grivo (Texas) • Track name: Middle Distance
• Klimt 1918 (Italy) • Track name: Nexus
• LATERNO (Italy) • Track name: Drift
• Left at Orion (Ohio) • Track name: Irene's Dream
• Loom (Sweden) • Track name: Disappointed
• Menderbug (Sweden) • Track name: Always, You Are Nowhere
• Midsummers (North Carolina) • Track name: November
• Moonwards (Finland) • Track name: Don't Talk About It
• Pastry (Poland) • Track name: liquid
• Ringlet (California) • Track name: December
• school of design (Atlanta) • Track name: After The Warmth
• Seasurfer (Germany) • Track name: Angels
• Senior Living (New York) • Track name: existential, sudden dread
• Statelines (Indonesia) • Track name: All Night Talking
• Strayline. (Pennsylvania) • Track name: Separate
• Sun Shines Cold (Scotland) • Track name: All I Need
• undertow (DC/ MD, VA) • Track name: Lure
• Velveteen (England) • Track name: Another Somewhere
• Willoughby Vine (California) • Track name: Blue Whispers
• With Brevity (Ohio) • Track name: Street Lights
• Woven (Illinois) • Track name: Beyond the Pale
• Zabriskie (Switzerland) • Track name: Stone Temple

TOP 30 shoegaze favourites on Spotify. 

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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.