I don’t know why I didn’t think of this earlier but here I made a Spotify collaboration list! The only rules are 1) don’t remove somebody else’s song and 2) don’t spam-add songs.
Really didn’t know how to word this. All I know is that I’ve been completely in love with The Shelter of My Love by Astropol. I’m looking for some more alternative, dream-like, cinematic, emotionally intense songs. Songs that make you have flashbacks of things you never experienced. Songs that make you lose yourself before the voice of the artist jolts you awake. Songs that sound like how perpetual fogs and inevitable spirals feel.
I’m not sure what to call this specific genre, either. What the hell is shoegaze, anyway?
Air is an excellent band that seems to fit your bill and if you don’t mind a darker dream there’s always the OG of shoegaze Portishead.
I have strong music association with memories so most of my feelie invoking music is pretty fucking random (like associating wanderlust with Beck’s Guero).
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Lay low. Tiesto
This is what you are looking for: Cocteau Twins. https://open.spotify.com/track/37pKTyMwalomKCZjxTc2QZ?si=0x_orrZwSxGuv_mXM2uNCg Enjoy!
I really like this! Thank you! I’m surprised it’s from 1990
The drums - portamento
AIR - Moon safari
Hmm, I have no idea what to call the genre but I like that song you shared! Maybe California Nights or Where Were You When the Sky Opened Up? I’ll try to think some more, those are just off the top of my head
Best Coast is very fun.
I hadn’t heard that Best Coast song. I love When I’m With You by them, but this one has a very different vibe. Good stuff!
Dream-like and energetic? Try Boris - Melody and their whole Noise album.
Might be to electronica for your tastes but try Tycho’s Dive and awake albums
Wild Nothing - nocturne
Listening to your example, compare the Deftones’ “Knife Party.”
From the description - hypnogogic pop? Tame Impala, especially anything off Currents. An album that begins with “Let It Happen” and ends with “New Person, Same Old Mistakes.”
Kinda progressive rock, especially post-70s. Kingston Wall - “Could It Be So?”
Songs that make you lose yourself before the voice of the artist jolts you awake.
Oh, so more My Morning Jacket. “Touch Me I’m Going To Scream, Pt.1.” “Dondante.” Or arguably Mew’s “Comforting Sounds.”
If you like tame impala, you gotta check out the live rendition of innerspeaker at the wave house. It’s so much better then the studio album.
The video starts at dusk and as the album plays it transitions to night. Just steller shit
You might dig No Joy, Lush, Cindy Lee, the Cocteau Twins and My Bloody Valentine
What the hell is shoegaze, anyway?
Ask four different people and you’ll get four different answers, but the term first started to get thrown at bands as an insult around the late 80s in the UK because guitarists in certain alternative bands would be using so many different effects during their performances they’d spend the whole show staring at their pedalboards (I think a review of a My Bloody Valentine show in particular is where the term got coined)
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100% shoegaze fits the bill perfectly for OPs request. i’d add slowdive to that list
there’s some great, highly independent shoegaze on yt
also, some Dandy Warhols & Brian Jonestown probably fits the bill, eg. this track
“Reckoner” - Radiohead
“Walking in My Shoes” - Depeche Mode
“Bloodbuzz Ohio” - The National
“Black” - Pearl Jam
“Glory Box” - Portishead
“Unfinished Sympathy” - Massive AttackPortishead - Glorybox
I’m not sure what, but that song conjured untold emotions in me for the entirety of 2003While it’s certainly energetic, I think the type of energy is vastly different from what OP is after
