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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October 6, 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: Glimmer (New York) 
• Song: Been Down (taken from the album 'Get Weak', October 3)
• Artist: Cold Gawd (California, US)
• Song: Bomb Pop (single, September 23)

• Artist: bloom effect (Argentina/ UK, based in Vancouver, BC, Canada)
• Song: luna (taken from the album 'oscilón', September 19)
• Artist: Mannequin Flowers (London, UK)
• Song: Six Words (single, September 3)
• Artist: Giant Manta (Brașov, Romania)
• Song: Liminal (single, August 18)
• Artist: closeout (Ontario, Canada)
• Song: together (single, September 26)
• Artist: Slowly (Toronto, Canada)
• Song: Drown Me (taken from the album 'North Shore', September 26)
• Artist: Indigo Dream (Helsinki, Finland)
• Song: Falling Deeper (single, September 26)
• Artist: The First Eloi (Hamburg, Germany)
• Song: Hide & Seek (Revisited) (single, September 26)
• Artist: Saint Sappho (Glasgow, Scotland)
• Song: Cracks (single, September 12)
• Artist: Lógica Estelar (Panama)
• Song: Torres al caer (single, September 11)
• Artist: Lone Aires (Mannheim, Germany)
• Song: whispersofadream (taken from the ep 'It Hurt So Much That It Didn't Hurt It All', September 12)
• Artist: SOMET (Montreal, Canada)
• Song: Back To You (single, September 18)
• Artist: Mis peores  enemigos (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Song: Constatemente (taken from the album 'Tiempos mejores', September 23)
• Artist: Our Worlds Collide (Birmingham, UK)
• Song: nothing at all (taken from the album 'the stranger', September 19)
• Artist: Telephonist (Dortmund, Germany)
• Song: Kalter Beton (single, October 3)
• Artist: OCEAN DAZE (Oslo, Norway)
• Song: The Longing (Death) (single, September 19)
• Artist: Superluminal Objects (Eaglehawk, Australia)
• Song: Edible Natives (taken from the self-titled album, September 19)
• Artist: Trauma Glow (Vienna, Austria)
• Song: million in one (single, September 17)
• Artist: Trillion (Sydney, Australia)
• Song: Night City (single, September 17)
• Artist: bellweather (Vienna, Virginia)
• Song: space age love song (single, September 26) 
• Artist: Maia and the Squires (Berlin, Germany)
• Song: Chameleon (single, September 19)
• Artist: Dramamine (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
• Song: Let Go (taken from the album 'Heights Lake', October 3)
• Artist: duszno (Warsaw, Poland)
• Song:za żelazną bramą (single, October 3)
• Artist: Salvana (Barcelona, Spain)
• Song: Alas Rotas (taken from the ep 'Alas Rotas', Setepmber 30)
• Artist: Fevernova (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Song: Venime a Buscar (single, September 26)
• Artist: Dharmacide (Madrid, Spain)
• Song: Dove (single, October 1)
• Artist: Phantom Wave (Brooklyn, New York)
• Song: Echoes Unknown (single, October 3)
• Artist: Arcave (Lubbock, Texas)
• Song: Karaoke Supernova (taken from the album 'I Weakened The Tide, But More Remaind', September 19)
• Artist: Open Road Archives (Beirut, Lebanon)
• Song: Pretend For Now (single, September 12)
• Artist: IOTA (Bristol, UK)
• Song: Heaven (single, September 26)

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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.