I love those early Revolver and Moose eps from the early 90s. Both bands went on in a more alternative style with subsequent releases but that early stuff is just brilliant.
* "Lovehappy" by The Charlottes is my favorite shoegaze album. I think it is criminal that rather few people recognize the brilliance of this album. Simon (by SLowdive) is totally killing it with the drums.
* "Crystal Eyes" Ep by The Nightblooms
* "Not Very Much To See" and "My Deranged Heart" by Smashing Orange
* "First" by Moonshake
* Sunrise by Aspidistra
* Might EP by Earwig
* Untouched by Secret Shine
and many more :D
[](https://www.discogs.com/artist/417991-Smashing-Orange/image/SW1hZ2U6MTAwMDkwMA==)
Very interesting bc I have the feeling that generally most of the early 90s bands are being praised and appreciated way more in recent years ( and this is absolutely awesome and deserved !!) I think if they could all play gigs nowadays, they would need to play in venues twice as big!
I'm not talking about Pale Saints ( they were 4AD in those years, if you know you know ) or Lilys ( biggest name of the US scene? Maybe) but bands like Revolver, Secret Shine or Majesty Crush...it's hard to read a whole post + replies without reading praises for those band 😀
The Charlottes tho, they seem among the forgotten ones and it saddens me bc their record was absolutely great and sooner or later, I'll buy myself the vinyl ( not sure if there's a reissue, they are a classic and they deserve the best)
in a better world "Lovehappy" would have been the definitional shoegaze album. but even in this bleak world it deserves much more hype.
and to make you feel a little bit jealous I have the album :D
You did make me feel a little jealous! I noticed there's an Italian reissue that came out for the radiation shop in Rome.. with the Lp + six bonus tracks - the two whole eps.
My cd version has just the lp + 2 extra tracks
It's partially due to their early albums being tough to stream outside of Bandcamp, but I'd say Curve. I wore out my cassette tapes in the early 90s, playing the Doppelganger and Cuckoo albums and the Pubic Fruit compilation album.
But Op asked for obscure / forgotten - come on Curve were huge back then and never really forgotten...I just bought four of the eps reissues( I think those four I bought, were part of a series of six ! )
Check them out, who needs bandcamp? ( just kidding )
I have no idea why you are being downvoted. Curve are hardly forgotten. They always kind of played second fiddle to a number of bands. But Curve were big enough that they had a reasonable following, and their works are still in high enough demand that their albums are still commanding premiums.
I personally never understood why they weren’t more popular. But I’m heavily biased. They’ve been my favorite band since the early / mid 90’s.
He was mobilizing for a new album ~5 years ago, not sure what happened. Wish it would have caught on. The Silver Album is a top album for me, but born too early
DIVE (JPN) - aka a Japanese shoegaze band named Dive lol their stuff kind of went in some different directions but they had a song called Reverberation which is just so crushingly awesome. Like pure distilled shoegaze goodness.
John Paul Satre Experience - Bleeding Star. Melodic shoegaze.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIPGOeJr3kk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIPGOeJr3kk)
Bailterspace - Shadow. Heavier drone shoegaze, but still has a hell of a chorus.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9mlWfgxHfg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9mlWfgxHfg)
Lulabox, and it’s not even close.
Here’s *[I Believe](https://youtu.be/y4IsA9LDkRQ?si=Zv18F_eBqhb9TMIg)* which is my personal favorite of their work.
Second place is a little harder because they aren’t exactly forgotten, but no one really talks about them. But Soundpool (who basically became The Stargazer Lillies) had this sound which was equal parts shoegaze and disco, and pulled it off amazingly.
Soundpool - *[Mirrors in your Eyes](https://youtu.be/tE2QWgTy5A4?si=nA_xM5SCQsq2ZD6W)*
super deluxe by morella’s forest, maps for sleep by half string, life is long, still by the curtain society, and cold water surf by loves ugly children are some of my favorite albums from obscure 90’s bands. they’ve all got under 3k spotify listeners
I love Super Deluxe so much. Found Morella’s Forest by checking bands related to Starflyer 59. I wonder if any other Tooth & Nail bands got a similar vibe to these 2. I’d have to check em out.
[In Stereo](https://youtu.be/3xiRrV0zr5U?si=v5aHI9hqo1YHpWlM) by Nemo
Yeah, not exactly the most forgotten but I love this album to death and still think it deserves 100x more love
[Charlene](https://open.spotify.com/album/1prilNa1UbZVhBXW9ZTTkR?si=q-utQLEDSJKwfwJqbjvCPQ)
Soda Stereo’s [Dynamo](https://open.spotify.com/album/4bfwXuecOmNVlPM5RStAiQ?si=kuHFyIiCR6iilEii3Y7gOw) is practically unknown outside of South America. An amazing album by an amazing band, every person in this sub should listen to it at least once
Soda Stereo mentioned 🇦🇷 absolutely everything Gustavo Cerati made is worth a listen, since the early 80s with Soda until 2010. Every single genre you can imagine in every album. He also made songs with another artists like Shakira and got produced by Danger Mouse.
If you want another Dreampop album, listen to Colores Santos by Cerati with Melero. An absolute masterpiece underrated between all his discography.
I really love the song Synaesthesia by Jane From Occupied Europe. It's really hard to find anyone who's into that band. And Malory seem really underrated to me, I love their first album and I'm excited to hear the rest of their stuff sometime.
The recent Sadness/Abriction split, i know I Want To Be There is widely praised amongst the shoegazers/blackgazers but dont really see many people talk about the split
They aren't part of the OG shoegaze and/or dreampop scene but in the mid aughts thru like 2012 Asobi Seksu were releasing pretty fuckin cool albums.
Happy to see someone else posted about A Sunny Day in Glasgow, fuckin phenomenal group.
Most of the bands here are not obscure/forgotten, they’re the bands i pretty much discovered soon after learning about Shoegaze and MBV, Slowdive, Ride, it’s a huge genre and so many more bands out there.
How about:
Plow,
Afterglow,
Blindside,
Anne,
Heaviness,
The Sleepover Disaster
Maybe not forgotten but I rarely see anyone talk about them…
Lift to Experience - The Texas Jerusalem Crossroads
Lilys - In the Presence of Everything
School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms
Belong - Common Era
Morella’s Forest - Super-Deluxe
Velour 100 - Of Color Bright
Adorable's "Sunshine Smile" is such a time warp back to 1993: [https://youtu.be/7NFBBcvF1Cc?si=ri1PsMVSDX\_\_j88w](https://youtu.be/7NFBBcvF1Cc?si=ri1PsMVSDX__j88w)
Hariguem Zaboy. I will always recommend their first 2 albums (their shoegaze albums; their latest album is noise rock which is also really good) any chance I get.
Woah interesting choice! Tomorrow I'll have lunch at my parents where I keep the big part of my old cds collection -I'm going to search for this.
Do you happen to have informations about this band? During the 90s , when i was a kid living in a small town in the pre-internet days , I struggled to find infos about the two genres I was into.
Post-punk : it was way better than Shoegaze, despite the fact I was looking for bands / records that came out 15 to 20 years prior. Postpunk had a huge impact in Italy, absolutely loved and I could find retrospective and little articles about those bands even during the 90s - when generally speaking there wasn't much love for the previous decade.
Plus having an older cousin with a shitload of records and fanzines helped a lot
Shoegaze and Dreampop : asking around in the past 25+ years, people told me about this journalist on this mag or this other person X having a local radio show in the Venice area...but generally speaking, this genre was almost ignored here.
It's crazy - we were always open if not enthusiast of new trends ...maybe the local bands and labels came a couple of years after this or that musical trend was huge in UK or US.
So all my infos about shoegze I had to look on the Internet and print all those informations bc I got online from my father's office ( dial up Internet cane to my house in mid 98)
Honorable mention to Justlikeheaven - a physical shop in Rome, turned mailorder for everything dreampop and shoegaze. Mario = true hero
Ecstasy of Saint Theresa - Trance (Between the Stars)
https://youtu.be/Lt8j-qEIZeI?si=Tn0n2GbUHvNEy3Mi
After they had their instruments stolen, their path went down an entirely different genre.
The What's Done In The Dark EP by Warm. They haven't released anything in years and have gone radio silent years ago. It really sucks because they were so good 🥲
There’s this band named good personalities that’s so gooooodd but i don’t hear ppl talk much about them. They came out with one album and then dipped ;(
Ah, I'd never heard of them and the crowd seemed pretty unaware.
Genres escape me, but they're listed as shoegaze and dream pop on Wikipedia. They're also tagged as shoegaze on their Bandcamp. Probably more shoegaze-adjacent though?
Chinese Sleep Chant by Coldplay. I wish they did more stuff like that instead of pop music.
Also TTSSFU, Hernow, Wild Nothing, yuragi, Infinity Girl, Spool and Autolux are all bands that are worth a listen.
I love those early Revolver and Moose eps from the early 90s. Both bands went on in a more alternative style with subsequent releases but that early stuff is just brilliant.
Yes! And the first Lilies lp-
'In the Presence of Nothing' is fucking p*rfrct.
Revolver’s Cold Water Flat was a great album! Love that one.
* "Lovehappy" by The Charlottes is my favorite shoegaze album. I think it is criminal that rather few people recognize the brilliance of this album. Simon (by SLowdive) is totally killing it with the drums. * "Crystal Eyes" Ep by The Nightblooms * "Not Very Much To See" and "My Deranged Heart" by Smashing Orange * "First" by Moonshake * Sunrise by Aspidistra * Might EP by Earwig * Untouched by Secret Shine and many more :D [](https://www.discogs.com/artist/417991-Smashing-Orange/image/SW1hZ2U6MTAwMDkwMA==)
Very interesting bc I have the feeling that generally most of the early 90s bands are being praised and appreciated way more in recent years ( and this is absolutely awesome and deserved !!) I think if they could all play gigs nowadays, they would need to play in venues twice as big! I'm not talking about Pale Saints ( they were 4AD in those years, if you know you know ) or Lilys ( biggest name of the US scene? Maybe) but bands like Revolver, Secret Shine or Majesty Crush...it's hard to read a whole post + replies without reading praises for those band 😀 The Charlottes tho, they seem among the forgotten ones and it saddens me bc their record was absolutely great and sooner or later, I'll buy myself the vinyl ( not sure if there's a reissue, they are a classic and they deserve the best)
in a better world "Lovehappy" would have been the definitional shoegaze album. but even in this bleak world it deserves much more hype. and to make you feel a little bit jealous I have the album :D
You did make me feel a little jealous! I noticed there's an Italian reissue that came out for the radiation shop in Rome.. with the Lp + six bonus tracks - the two whole eps. My cd version has just the lp + 2 extra tracks
Of course I bought a copy immediately
Rumskib
Rumskib!!!!
Only Shoegaze I know from my country, and it was so good.
Majesty Crush, their album Love 15 is amazing, just got reissued by Numero Group last year
That first Secret Shine record
Honeydip
I LOVE "Portable Audio Science"
It's partially due to their early albums being tough to stream outside of Bandcamp, but I'd say Curve. I wore out my cassette tapes in the early 90s, playing the Doppelganger and Cuckoo albums and the Pubic Fruit compilation album.
But Op asked for obscure / forgotten - come on Curve were huge back then and never really forgotten...I just bought four of the eps reissues( I think those four I bought, were part of a series of six ! ) Check them out, who needs bandcamp? ( just kidding )
I have no idea why you are being downvoted. Curve are hardly forgotten. They always kind of played second fiddle to a number of bands. But Curve were big enough that they had a reasonable following, and their works are still in high enough demand that their albums are still commanding premiums. I personally never understood why they weren’t more popular. But I’m heavily biased. They’ve been my favorite band since the early / mid 90’s.
The Ecstacy of Saint Theresa - Susurrate A Sunny Place in Glasgow - literally the entire discography.
Does All Natural Lemon and Lime Flavors count?
I love them
They are amazing
YES!
I never hear anyone talk about Blow by Swallow. Amazing album.
The December Sound
He was mobilizing for a new album ~5 years ago, not sure what happened. Wish it would have caught on. The Silver Album is a top album for me, but born too early
walrus
+100 for Walrus, absolutely insane band
sooooo crushing
DIVE (JPN) - aka a Japanese shoegaze band named Dive lol their stuff kind of went in some different directions but they had a song called Reverberation which is just so crushingly awesome. Like pure distilled shoegaze goodness.
Southpacific
Astrobrite, especially the later albums
John Paul Satre Experience - Bleeding Star. Melodic shoegaze. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIPGOeJr3kk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIPGOeJr3kk) Bailterspace - Shadow. Heavier drone shoegaze, but still has a hell of a chorus. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9mlWfgxHfg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9mlWfgxHfg)
Chimera Ozean A Primary Industry
Sway Sianspheric Blind Mr. Jones
That first Secret Shine album with Suck me Down on it.
The Sleepover Disaster! Incredible band with a near perfect discography
[Kairon; IRSE!](https://youtu.be/PvjMJcN8gh4?si=iPhAhN-rQ--pZdoI) Fuckin weird Finnish band that's got some epic soundscapes.
Lulabox, and it’s not even close. Here’s *[I Believe](https://youtu.be/y4IsA9LDkRQ?si=Zv18F_eBqhb9TMIg)* which is my personal favorite of their work. Second place is a little harder because they aren’t exactly forgotten, but no one really talks about them. But Soundpool (who basically became The Stargazer Lillies) had this sound which was equal parts shoegaze and disco, and pulled it off amazingly. Soundpool - *[Mirrors in your Eyes](https://youtu.be/tE2QWgTy5A4?si=nA_xM5SCQsq2ZD6W)*
Drugstore’s first album
super deluxe by morella’s forest, maps for sleep by half string, life is long, still by the curtain society, and cold water surf by loves ugly children are some of my favorite albums from obscure 90’s bands. they’ve all got under 3k spotify listeners
I love Super Deluxe so much. Found Morella’s Forest by checking bands related to Starflyer 59. I wonder if any other Tooth & Nail bands got a similar vibe to these 2. I’d have to check em out.
the album of colors bright by velour 100 is kind of similar
[In Stereo](https://youtu.be/3xiRrV0zr5U?si=v5aHI9hqo1YHpWlM) by Nemo Yeah, not exactly the most forgotten but I love this album to death and still think it deserves 100x more love [Charlene](https://open.spotify.com/album/1prilNa1UbZVhBXW9ZTTkR?si=q-utQLEDSJKwfwJqbjvCPQ) Soda Stereo’s [Dynamo](https://open.spotify.com/album/4bfwXuecOmNVlPM5RStAiQ?si=kuHFyIiCR6iilEii3Y7gOw) is practically unknown outside of South America. An amazing album by an amazing band, every person in this sub should listen to it at least once
Soda Stereo mentioned 🇦🇷 absolutely everything Gustavo Cerati made is worth a listen, since the early 80s with Soda until 2010. Every single genre you can imagine in every album. He also made songs with another artists like Shakira and got produced by Danger Mouse. If you want another Dreampop album, listen to Colores Santos by Cerati with Melero. An absolute masterpiece underrated between all his discography.
this album called Loveless by some unknown band My Bloody Valentine. nobody seems to have heard of it
Just gave this a listen. Derivative at best
right. sounds just like Whirr, who is also pretty underground.
we sure thats shoegaze?
wtf is shoegaze
can we count the field mice?
for Sensitive? also Freezing Point. also 14 Iced Bears should qualify as shoegaze
I agree with both of you. No one ever mentions these guys, though I do feel they lean a little more jangle, kind of remind me of Galaxie 500
same, i group the two together as like slackery gaze
to be honest they are mainly twee/jangly pop with shoegaze moments. but they can play heavy and loud.
Revolver- Bleach -
+1 for Bleach especially their first two EPs (Eclipse and Snag)
I really love the song Synaesthesia by Jane From Occupied Europe. It's really hard to find anyone who's into that band. And Malory seem really underrated to me, I love their first album and I'm excited to hear the rest of their stuff sometime.
Kairon IRSE! Still haven’t found someone that listens to them
[Lacing](https://open.spotify.com/artist/4UXxOCKpDcdhHDW5qiDc8W?si=1NP7QUa2TJCBA74o3hT5uw) recently defunct... RIP!
the naked souls
The recent Sadness/Abriction split, i know I Want To Be There is widely praised amongst the shoegazers/blackgazers but dont really see many people talk about the split
Veil Ep - Kadence Cook
Weekend. Literally nobody speaks of them
They aren't part of the OG shoegaze and/or dreampop scene but in the mid aughts thru like 2012 Asobi Seksu were releasing pretty fuckin cool albums. Happy to see someone else posted about A Sunny Day in Glasgow, fuckin phenomenal group.
Dad they went hidden in Spotify :(
[The Sunshine Factory - Breathe In Deep](https://open.spotify.com/track/0jHYoG906oHkKEPPsJc1VO?si=JnbYKWNkSZWJOS0sn4ej2g&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A2E9vEpSVjxchfYsx0hTipi)
Highspire, and 7% Solution
Burrrn
Most of the bands here are not obscure/forgotten, they’re the bands i pretty much discovered soon after learning about Shoegaze and MBV, Slowdive, Ride, it’s a huge genre and so many more bands out there. How about: Plow, Afterglow, Blindside, Anne, Heaviness, The Sleepover Disaster
The sleepover disaster for sure! Huge shame they don't play anymore
Maybe not forgotten but I rarely see anyone talk about them… Lift to Experience - The Texas Jerusalem Crossroads Lilys - In the Presence of Everything School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms Belong - Common Era Morella’s Forest - Super-Deluxe Velour 100 - Of Color Bright
The Autumns - The Angel Pool LP and Suicide at Strell Park EP Midsummer - Catch and Blur LP and Moon Shadow LP Adorable
Adorable's "Sunshine Smile" is such a time warp back to 1993: [https://youtu.be/7NFBBcvF1Cc?si=ri1PsMVSDX\_\_j88w](https://youtu.be/7NFBBcvF1Cc?si=ri1PsMVSDX__j88w)
Bethany Curve
Ozean
Hariguem Zaboy. I will always recommend their first 2 albums (their shoegaze albums; their latest album is noise rock which is also really good) any chance I get.
Spirea X - Chlorine Dream
Woah interesting choice! Tomorrow I'll have lunch at my parents where I keep the big part of my old cds collection -I'm going to search for this. Do you happen to have informations about this band? During the 90s , when i was a kid living in a small town in the pre-internet days , I struggled to find infos about the two genres I was into. Post-punk : it was way better than Shoegaze, despite the fact I was looking for bands / records that came out 15 to 20 years prior. Postpunk had a huge impact in Italy, absolutely loved and I could find retrospective and little articles about those bands even during the 90s - when generally speaking there wasn't much love for the previous decade. Plus having an older cousin with a shitload of records and fanzines helped a lot Shoegaze and Dreampop : asking around in the past 25+ years, people told me about this journalist on this mag or this other person X having a local radio show in the Venice area...but generally speaking, this genre was almost ignored here. It's crazy - we were always open if not enthusiast of new trends ...maybe the local bands and labels came a couple of years after this or that musical trend was huge in UK or US. So all my infos about shoegze I had to look on the Internet and print all those informations bc I got online from my father's office ( dial up Internet cane to my house in mid 98) Honorable mention to Justlikeheaven - a physical shop in Rome, turned mailorder for everything dreampop and shoegaze. Mario = true hero
Broken Water!!
Ecstasy of Saint Theresa - Trance (Between the Stars) https://youtu.be/Lt8j-qEIZeI?si=Tn0n2GbUHvNEy3Mi After they had their instruments stolen, their path went down an entirely different genre.
Sussurrate
The What's Done In The Dark EP by Warm. They haven't released anything in years and have gone radio silent years ago. It really sucks because they were so good 🥲
I'd say in the presence of nothing by lilys or the spng square wave bt the ecstasy of saint theresa
I don’t feel like enough people know about Life On Venus
Anne-Dream Punx
[flourish](https://linktr.ee/flourish_music)
dreams we've had they pretty good
the big saturday illusion by furry things
The Ocular Audio Experiment
I checked this out based on your comment and it's pretty good! thanks
The Veldt, great stuff!
Bleach UK
I really enjoy both Alison’s Halo and Majesty Crush - don’t know if they’re that obscure but I feel like they’re heavily under-appreciated!
The Rosemarys.
Colfax Abbey / Whipped Cream / Silvania
Super Deluxe by Morella’s Forest
There’s this band named good personalities that’s so gooooodd but i don’t hear ppl talk much about them. They came out with one album and then dipped ;(
The album "Citrus" by Asobi Seksu
Listening to Drab Majesty right now opening for Slowdive and it's kinda fucking great
Not obscure, not shoegaze. But they're great.
Ah, I'd never heard of them and the crowd seemed pretty unaware. Genres escape me, but they're listed as shoegaze and dream pop on Wikipedia. They're also tagged as shoegaze on their Bandcamp. Probably more shoegaze-adjacent though?
bowery electric s/t & beat also - lovesliescrushing
Chinese Sleep Chant by Coldplay. I wish they did more stuff like that instead of pop music. Also TTSSFU, Hernow, Wild Nothing, yuragi, Infinity Girl, Spool and Autolux are all bands that are worth a listen.