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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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Playlistcover: DALMATIA, San Francisco (California), US

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August 31, 2026

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

• Artist Name: Ancient Channels (Australia) • Track Name: X Flares
• Artist Name: Annie Baltic (New York) • Track Name: New Love
• Artist Name: Backwards Charm (Austria) • Track Name: Everblue
• Artist Name: Big Cove (North Carolina) • Track Name: Suneyes
• Artist Name: Boar God (Canada) • Track Name: Hunting season
• Artist Name: Cecilia já não é + a mesma (Brazil) • Track Name: você flutua?
• Artist Name: Cold Gawd (California) • Track Name: Glory
• Artist Name: Dalmatia (California) • Track Name: Dive In
• Artist Name: Dormer. (Canada) • Track Name: Threadbare
• Artist Name: duszno (Poland) • Track Name: 10 mieczy
• Artist Name: Ethereal Gone Kids (Australia) • Track Name: She's Way Too Cool
• Artist Name: framewalkers (Germany) • Track Name: hope
• Artist Name: French Film (Texas) • Track Name: Blair
• Artist Name: hazy waters (England) • Track Name: take me home
• Artist Name: hiacynt (Poland) • Track Name: bezkres
• Artist Name: Japanese Heart Software (Australia) • Track Name: Quitter
• Artist Name: jonabug (Brazil) • Track Name: rascunho
• Artist Name: Kate de Rosset (North Carolina) • Track Name: Chase the Bloom
• Artist Name: King Blue Heron (Pennsylvania) • Track Name: Dogs
• Artist Name: Magic Wands (Tennessee/ California) • Track Name: Diamond Rain
• Artist Name: Minaxi (New York) • Track Name: Your Love / Tere Ishq Mein
• Artist Name: MyVeronica (California) • Track Name: Los Angeles
• Artist Name: Neon Wire (New York) • Track Name: Fade
• Artist Name: nightlamping. (Ireland) • Track Name: understand.
• Artist Name: otsyuda (Canada) • Track Name: Float
• Artist Name: Rainsong (England) • Track Name: eventually
• Artist Name: Raw Blue (Indonesia) • Track Name: Numb to Everything
• Artist Name: Rebecca Dow with David Sloan (Northern Ireland) • Track Name: Beneath You
• Artist Name: Sadfields (Mexico) • Track Name: Despiértame
• Artist Name: Seasurfer (Germany) • Track Name: Flurry Glory
• Artist Name: Shadow Flowers (England) • Track Name: Pickpocket
• Artist Name: Slow Fiction (New York) • Track Name: bottle episode
• Artist Name: Squirrel Flower (Illinois) • Track Name: Surfing USA
• Artist Name: stereoblu (Singapore) • Track Name: white lies and blue skies
• Artist Name: Sunstinger (Scotland) • Track Name: ZEROSUM
• Artist Name: the deep sleep (Japan) • Track Name: you'll turn away
• Artist Name: The First Eloi (Germany) • Track Name: Drawn Into These Headlights
• Artist Name: The Sewing Club (Tennessee) • Track Name: Bark
• Artist Name: Ursula (Australia) • Track Name: I Fail Everything That I Do
• Artist Name: Vida Eterna (Michigan) • Track Name: Had To Let You Know
• Artist Name: W00T (Canada) • Track Name: Blame
• Artist Name: waltzerr (Washington) • Track Name: Slow Down
• Artist Name: Wednesday (Korea) • Track Name: Fine
• Artist Name: With Brevity (Ohio) • Track Name: Baby Blue Eyes

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.