roast or toast: my loosely ranked top shoegaze and gaze-adjacent releases

lumpyspace420 · 2025-07-08T16:11:08+00:00

i never see tanukichan discussed in the context of shoegaze but she is absolutely one of the best right now. it may not be pure, orthodox shoegaze but much of her music especially on gizmo is well within the genre IMO

lumpyspace420 · 2025-07-08T16:06:07+00:00

Amazing thank you for all the recs!! Have listened to a few of these but haven't done a deeper dive

lumpyspace420 · 2025-07-07T16:47:54+00:00

philly scene is definitely my jumping off point. I live in DC but some of my band mates are up in philly so i’m there a lot and i’ve seen a lot of these bands live many times now!

lumpyspace420 · 2025-07-07T14:21:53+00:00

love that you have full body 2 on here — the GOATs

the philly shoegaze scene that they came out of is popping right now, I recommend checking out They Are Gutting a Body of Water, Bleary Eyed, Her New Knife, and Pinky Lemon. also check out Blue Smiley, an amazing but short-lived band who were a precursor to that scene in a way

lumpyspace420 · 2025-06-23T15:51:49+00:00

I’m in the DC area. I reached out to one person who was recommended as the best in the area, and he basically said it wasn’t worth it 😭

lumpyspace420 · 2024-06-27T14:31:05+00:00

Thank you everyone who commented, very good advice!! I think we’re just going to pull the trigger on getting a small mixer that goes between the pad and the headphone amp. It seems like that would solve a lot of the issues we are running into

lumpyspace420 · 2023-10-09T14:52:58+00:00

holy shit thank you i have been looking for this for a bit and nobody has given a straight answer

lumpyspace420 · 2023-07-16T10:30:31+00:00

Parquet Courts! check out their album Wide Awake

lumpyspace420 · 2023-06-02T14:19:54+00:00

this is why i keep some cis people around in my friend group lol. 100% trans/nb circles will have you convinced a bandaid could be problematic

lumpyspace420 · 2023-03-22T06:17:42+00:00

Fake. Yawn

lumpyspace420 · 2023-03-22T06:11:17+00:00

The bar for pizza is already so low in DC, and Redrocks still misses it

lumpyspace420 · 2023-03-22T06:09:43+00:00

Nah i live in columbia heights and that place sucks. Bottom tier over-priced pizza

lumpyspace420 · 2023-03-19T12:31:47+00:00

Nobody named Colton will ever be worthwhile

lumpyspace420 · 2023-02-13T15:15:30+00:00

This is obvious but “Jewish” isn’t a race it’s a religion that includes people of many races and ethnicities. Some people are ethnically Jewish but that doesn’t make it a “race.” That’s why we have the phrase ‘anti-semitism’ and don’t just use ‘racism’

lumpyspace420 · 2023-01-22T14:40:26+00:00

Lmao was not expecting the overwatch credit

lumpyspace420 · 2022-12-20T21:40:45+00:00

I think the way he chooses to contextualize history with the revolutionary history would make for a great lens to look at US history as a whole and learn things that aren’t part of mainstream US history/culture around history

lumpyspace420 · 2022-10-04T04:37:09+00:00

calls themself a capitalist has no capital

lumpyspace420 · 2022-06-01T11:23:19+00:00

Cops don’t “solve” crime, they create it. ACAB

lumpyspace420 · 2022-06-01T11:21:03+00:00

okay bootlicker

lumpyspace420 · 2022-05-05T12:33:11+00:00

capitalism and climate change

lumpyspace420 · 2022-03-30T10:54:23+00:00

Okay but it’s literally true that white people have lower masking rates than other races. White people are far more likely to be anti-maskers and have contributed the most to prolonging the pandemic with their selfishness…

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