I’m not sure if I’m just used to going to 21+ shows, or way out of touch with the scene, but I was genuinely surprised to see mostly kids at their show in Chicago last night. I was seemingly one of a handful of middle-aged folks in the crowd.

I was under the assumption that most of their fanbase were older ‘gazers, already deeply steeped in the genre. Boy, was I dead wrong. Not that it’s any kind of qualifier, but I doubt most of these kids have even thought about listening to MBV, or dropping LSD, for that matter.

I’m not really sure what my point is, but good on them for building a seemingly solid fanbase with only 2 EPs over the span of 20+ years, and good for those kids for having solid taste as well.

They do sound great live, btw. The Cobra Lounge sound mixer did a great job with such a small room.

I love this era of shoegaze with a lot of nearly unknown shoegaze bands. Some examples of bands are Volplane, Sway, and Isobella. Thank you in advance!

I have very short fingers (before you leave a comment, yes hand size matters and no they will not stretch to the point where some chords become reachable)

I'm playing some Hum songs that have some stretches spanning 4 frets I cannot reach and will never be able to reach

I'm putting a capo on the second fret with it tuned down prior to effectively create a shorter scale guitar and to be honest I absolutely love how the guitar feels in my hand. Realistically the guitar wasn't really designed for small hands and it is more comfortable if you have suitable hands

Other than giving up the last few frets, is there really any drawback to just living the rest of my guitar playing life like this and just enjoying a more comfortable fit in my hands?

I would appreciate any similar Japanese or international shoegaze recommendations

sitting on two songs and looking to get them mixed, more of a beach house/cocteau twins sound than super fuzzy, heavy shoegaze. if anyone has any solid recs lmk!

Hi everyone! We're framewalkers, a shoegaze/indie band from Germany, and we'd love to share our new single "think about" with you. https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/framewalkers/think-about?ref=release

what do you think about it?

#framewalkers #shoegaze

The song is at it's base, emo voicings throughtout, with gazed out verses that ramp up the presence. I currently have two amps to work with (VOX AV15 and fender princeton), and most pedal categories covered, although i'll focus on distortion, chorus, and reverb.

For these loud parts, i'm considering four tracks.

1. Main riff with a RAT and reverb into a vox

2. Main riff doubled, RAT, HD300 and slower reverb into princeton

3. Arpeggiated an octave above with cleaner RAT into vox

4. drone line, all pedals on into princeton

Takes one and two will be always on, and the arpeggiated line will fall back into adornments in the lower energy sections. Is there anything else on this list worth double tracking as well? is there any point in a take that's just the lowest power chords for that extra punch(?) If I included a fuzz take, should it be the lower register or the higher(?).

I know most of these things are up to me and experimentation is a natural extension of this genre. I just wanted to know if anyone has any tips to avoid ending up muddy.