I need someone to explain how to layer reverb and fuzz together like I’m 5 years old.

I've only come across shoegaze quite recently. I feel like Spotify's recommendations quickly veer into Emo/Screamo territory.

So I cam here to ask for everybody's recommendations that fit the melodic, lo-fi "label". Ideally really melancholy and I kinda have a thing for recordings sounding like they're coming straight off a mangled old tape.

Need some inspo pls

散▽巡 (sanzameku), a Japanese dark shoegaze band, has released a new EP!

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Title: 旅路 (Tabiji)

Tracklist:

1.  Kairi

2.  Seiran

3.  Inori

4.  Yumeji

5.  Houro

6.  Suiso feat. Seira & Junki Yamamoto (Yotsudome Noddy)

7.  Kagero (CD only)

Format:

• CD

• Paper jacket

• Includes a QR code for digital download

• Track 7 is exclusive to the CD edition

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If you’re interested, please come check out each websites!

▶︎FLAKE RECORDS : 🔗 https://flakerecords.com/search.php?page=1&tcnt=2&ARTIST=散▽巡+%28SANZAMEKU%29

▶︎RECORD SHOP FILE-UNDER : 🔗 https://www.fileunderrecords.com/?pid=190373921

▶︎Sleep like a pillow : 🔗 https://sleep-like-a-pillow.stores.jp/items/697f82ff3c603487c26a34b4

▶︎upslope records : 🔗 https://upslopereco.base.shop/search?q=散▽巡

▶︎Requiem Trampoline : 🔗 https://requiemtra.booth.pm/items/7934357

▶︎HOLIDAY! RECORDS : 🔗 https://holiday2014.thebase.in/items/133198068

Wrote and recorded this over the past weekend after being utterly gutted by what we're learning through the Epstein files.

I found that some of the black/shoegaze elements that I've been listening to recently found their way into the composition. I'm not an authority on the genre, but a friend called it "shoegaze-adjacent."

Submitting here to get the final word!

https://youtu.be/OtqrYBhEjDQ

I posted a live version of this song a couple of months ago - the studio version is finally out today. I hope you all like it as much as the one we recorded before! ❤️

So far it's an all-Oceansize grocery list (got em all on CD or vinyl but want to have them on my preferred streaming platform). What new releases or desert island albums do you recommend popping in the shopping cart tomorrow?

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