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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Playlistcover: labyrinthine oceans from Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)

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April 1, 2026

The World of Shoegaze...March was another massive month for shoegaze! Check out the best tracks in our latest playlist. Featuring 5 songs from Italy (21 from across Europe), 4 stunning debuts, plus incredible sounds from Canada, the US, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, and New Zealand. Over half the tracks feature female vocals! Have fun discovering! (Couldn't help myself – too much good music! Here’s a 'Top 40' instead of 30.)

• labyrinthine oceans (Newcastle, UK) • Song: for the flesh and for the machine
• Garden Walk (Amsterdam, NLD) • Song: Feel Something
• Gnaw (Singapore) • Song: Star
• Daytracer (Ohio) • Song: Glowrest
• picture postcard (Dublin, IRE) • Song: wherever you’re meant to be
• Shanny & The East Men (Nashville, TN) • Song: Ghosts
• We.The Pigs (Stockholm, SWE) • Song: Hyllan
• Snowcuffs (Chicago, IL) • Song: Cold Memories
• sadplanet (London, UK) • Song: do you?
• Meraung (Bogor, IDN) • Song: Every Little Light
• Silk (Belfast, NI) • Song: Clementine
• Loa Loa (Dunedin, NZL) • Song: Give Me A Place
• Sea of Days (Brighton, UK) • Song: Blackouts
• Midscale (Paris, FRA) • Song: Braincrash
• All You Can Hate (Rome, ITA) • Song: Craving
• Stockholm Space Station (Stockholm, SWE) • Song: For you too
• Helens (Portland, OR) • Song: Slip Between
• Lithia (Chicago, IL) • Song: Devotion
• in sea hole (Tokyo, JPN) • Song: ao
• Holy Forrest (Sydney, AUS) • Song: EVERYTHING (I LOVED YOU THROUGH)
• Hannah Robinson (Newcastle, UK) • Song: Ruining The Moment
• honeyboi (Canosa di Puglia, ITA) • Song: glimmer
• Backwards Charm (Vienna/ Salzburg, AUT) • Song: Tractor Beam
• Lost Velvet (Reading, UK) • Song: Burnt
• The Blue Herons (Lucerne, CHF & Los Angeles, CA) • Song: Fight Or Flight
• cólgate (Venice/ Padua, ITA) • Song: Villa
• Johnny Spätschicht (Berlin, GER) • Song: Die weite Ferne
• Drypoint (Los Angeles, CA) • Song: Cyclist
• RAINBOW BELTZ (Tokyo, JPN) • Song: 246
• Klimt 1918 (Rome, ITA) • Song: Dream Core
• slow quit (Boston, MA) • Song: Negation
• Heimat (Venice, Italy & Seattle, WA) • Song:
• 湯冷めラジオ (Yuzame Radio) (Tokyo, JPN) • Song: オールトの雲
• deary (London, UK) • Song: Alma
• Lauren Lakis (Austin, TX/ Los Angeles, CA) • Song: There
• Future Magics (Los Angeles, CA) • Song: Egghead
• Donna Martin Graduates (Copenhagen, DNK) • Song: Hold My Mistakes
• bounty (Brooklyn, NY) • Song: Off Track
• Wildernesses (London, UK) • Song: (dread)
• Kodaclips (Cesena, ITA) • Song: Pirouette
• Ringlet (Oakland, CA) • Song: Hold My Paint
• Pills For Tomorrow (Grenoble, FRA) • Song: Echoes
• Yumeia with Tre Flip (Rome, ITA) • Song: eterno riposo
• Deep Sky Objects (Brooklyn, NY) • Song: Banner of Light

TOP 30 shoegaze favourites on Spotify. Promoted on all socials (Instagram, Facebook, Threads, TikTok, tumblr, Reddit...) 

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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.