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| | Lush |
 | | Lush was a British shoegazing band, formed in 1988 by Steve Rippon, Emma Anderson, Meriel Barham, Chris Acland and Miki Berenyi (see 1988 in music). | | | Critical praise for Scar and a wildly popular live show established Lush as one of the best-selling bands in the new "shoegazing" genre of pop music. | | | Robin Guthrie helped the band sign to 4AD and released Scar, an EP, in 1989 (1989 in music). |
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http://encyclopedia.codeboy.net/wikipedia/l/lu/lush.html
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| | Shoegazer Band Picks |
| | Their debut cd whirlpool is now a classic shoegaze album. | | | Slowdive broke up because they were tired of shoegazing and started a new band called Mojave 3. | | | The Telescopes were another shoegazer band that came from England. |
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http://www.shoegazing.iwarp.com/photo.html
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| | Shoegazing When The Floor Was Limit Guitar Columns @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com |
| | Shoegazing spat in the face of these over-enthusiastic shredders, with dual rhythm guitars being used in most key bands. | | | They were dubbed Shoegaze, due to the current wave of British bands using heavily distorted guitars, and soft, hushed vocals not different to those by Bilinda Butcher, which created a strange contrast between harsh and abrasive, and calm and tranquil. | | | The name 'Shoegazing' was coined by the music press due to the guitarists habit of staring at downwards, at their shoes or effects pedals. |
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http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/columns/genres_battles/shoegazing_when_the_floor_was_limit.html
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| | Opus // Music Reviews // Various Artists - Feedback To The Future: A Compilation Of Eleven Shoegazing Songs From ... |
| | In my humble opinion, no shoegazing comp would ever be complete without a track from Slowdive (quite possible the most perfect band to ever grace God's green earth), and the comp features one of their finest songs. | | | I've often identified shoegazing as a more introspective music, perfect for those times and moods when you want music that'll embrace you as you brood or pine away for a bit. | | | Of course, the lyrics are pure shoegazer, full of pining and youthful romanticism, but overall, the track almost sounds like prototypical Britpop (which just supports my conspiracy theory that all of the popular British rock of the past 15 years would never have existed if not for this oft-derided genre). |
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http://www.opuszine.com/blog/entry.html?ID=2058
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| | UTR - Issue 4 |
| | No diss to shoegazing, but I just don't listen to it. | | | Compared to the other stuff on Taang, I guess we were more shoegazing than punk rock. | | | Not that we're not serious about the music, but there's sort of a bit of a whacky element in what we do. |
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http://www.undertheradarmag.com/issue4/swirlies.html
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| | V/A Never Lose That Feeling #1 (Club AC30/Clairecords) |
| | Shoegazing only seems obscure if you’ve only listened to mainstream chart music of course. | | | I can’t pretend I listen to many CDs full of cover versions, but this is an album I might make an exception for. | | | Perhaps the band would have been bigger if they’d had fewer fans like me that only realise their love 15 years too late. |
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http://starvox.net/cdr/never.htm
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| | BBC - h2g2 - Shoegazing |
| | The key to shoegazing music is a loose feel with a jangly guitar quality. | | | The shoegazing bands were singled out as pretentious, middle-class, art-school, etc. etc., and most of them heavily re-invented themselves. | | | But despite the denials and prejudices, shoegazing has been allowed to live on, with fewer guitars, in the guise of Trip-Hop. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A153299
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| | BBC - collective - Much Maligned Music: No. 1 |
| | Shoegazing brought back to British rock music the concept of the 'Epic' rock track, a prime example being the rise of The Verve - 'Slide Away' and 'She's A Superstar' owe heavily to the Shoegazing scene. | | | A group of hip-young gunslingers, predominantly from the Home Counties, plugged in their guitars, cranked up the dials and made rock epics that, in what was a time of musical sterility, made some pretty bold statements. | | | Ride, without a doubt, were THE Shoegazing band - their early poppier sound, as defined by 'Chelsea Girl' slowly developed into something much more grandiose - 'Like A Daydream', 'Taste' and Shoegazing Track In Excelsis 'Leave Them All Behind' left all the other bands of the Shoegazing creed in their wave. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A4639269
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| | Randomville :: View topic - shoegazing |
| | Shoegaze is a genre of late '80s and early '90s British indie rock, named after the bands' motionless performing style, where they stood on stage and stared at the floor while they played. | | | Arguably the leading album of the "Shoegazing" movement is 'Loveless' - My Bloody Valentine. | | | For the record, my favourite album from here has to be "Isn't Anything" by MBV. |
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http://www.randomville.com/Daily/about110.html
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| | Swervedriver: Mezcal Head - PopMatters Music Review |
| | Swervedriver weren't out to destroy the pop song (which was arguably the whole point of shoegazing), but ultimately, they achieved something far more controversial by inverting the relationship, by dragging the inherent pretensions of the shoegazing into the pop song. | | | MBV's masterpiece was a work of profound sonic genius, redefining both the structure of song and the accepted norms of guitar music. | | | but by the release of their first album had morphed into a shoegazer outfit. |
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http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/s/swervedriver-mexcal.shtml
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| | CONFESSIONS OF A MUSIC SNOB: Shoegazing to My Bloody Valentine |
| | More optimistically, shoegaze was about experimenting with the sonic texture of the electric guitar rather than simply assaulting the listener’s ears. | | | My Bloody Valentine had already shaped the musical landscape of Britain with their previous full-length album “Isn’t Anything.” With electric guitars that sounded alternately like an air raid siren and a sinister blender, the album helped inspire a rock movement whose main signature was waves of distortion and feedback. | | | Someone could argue that their music was as alienating to their audience as their performance style was. |
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http://www-tech.mit.edu/V124/N4/4_AndyLee.4a.html
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| | FirstCoast News.com - Print Article |
| | While shoegazing plays a huge part in Bellaparkerâs music, three of the five songs on The Things We Say show Bellaparker heading in three different directions that are all exciting. | | | While Bellaparker are obviously influenced by shoegazing the band is really an amalgamation of many British influences. | | | How Bellaparker manage to cram twenty years of musical history in the span of five songs is a mystery but they somehow manage to do it. |
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http://www.firstcoastnews.com/printfullstory.aspx?storyid=32634
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| | .*.*. welcome to the three imaginary girls .*.*. |
| | All Music Guide: Shoegazing is a genre of late '80s and early '90s British indie rock, named after the bands' motionless performing style, where they stood on stage and stared at the floor while they played. | | | In 1992 — after the groups had dominated the British music press and indie charts for about three years — the shoegazing groups were swept aside by the twin tides of American grunge and Suede, the band to initiate the wave of Britpop that ruled British music during the mid-'90s. | | | Each band offered up 2-4 true-to-the-original songs from their Shoegazer mix tapes. |
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http://www.threeimaginarygirls.com/hearSAY11903shoegazer.asp
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| | Motel de Moka |
| | So whilst most of the people in my generation were listening to grunge and that alternative genre later baptized as "nu-rock", I was in my room shoegazing and listening to Radiohead and 60's and 70's rock bands. | | | Although I wasn't listening to the sounds around me while growing up in the 90's, I later (when I was about 16) rediscovered amazing shoegazer albums like Slowdive's "slouvaki", Spiritualized's "ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space" and of course, My bloody valentine's "loveless" that cracked my head open. | | | Everytime I listen to shoegaze millions of scared hippies always come to mind. |
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http://mookamotel.blogspot.com/2006/03/shoegazing.html
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| | The Lost Generation: Pitchfork Feature |
| | And Th' Faith Healers, one of the earliest bands on the label, sounded midway between an American indie band (Pavement, Dinosaur Jr.) and a shoegazer act, a combination that left them plenty of room to move; "Don't Jones Me", their best-remembered single, sounds a bit like PJ Harvey in psych mode. | | | This was the original indie band that didn't want to be an indie band-- if anything, they wanted to be Aphex Twin, and just happened to bring their indie sensibilities with them. | | | From today's viewpoint, their method of combining the two things seems blindingly obvious: Wisps of shoegazer guitar and vocal, drifting and floating over the slow roll of breakbeats, something not entirely unlike Andy Weatherall's groundbreaking dance remix of My Bloody Valentine's "Soon". |
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http://pitchforkmedia.com/features/weekly/05-07-11-lost-generation.shtml
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| | Shoegazing's >guitar sounds are still the most forward looking, nothing more innovative >has been made for guitars since then, while Britpop looked back at the >Sixties, sometimes the Seventies, and had totally retro guitars, it took >everything from beat, mod and glam. | | | Perhaps the jaw-dropping ease in which three or four jungle songs can be mixed and strung together without anyone aside from the DJ knowing there's been a track change. | | | And also, what bands are you classifying as shoegazing and britpop? |
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http://www.monkey.org/~laps/ceremony/digests/_2001/v2001.n010
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| | Mess+Noise - SHOEGAZING! |
| | Speaking of shoegazing, I am currently listening to Loveless by My Bloody Valentine. | | | not to mention the first catherine wheel album which is a shoegazing gem | | | I shall never tire of this album, it is absolute magic. |
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| | revolutionslive - SHOEGAZING WITH THE STILLS |
| | After "Ready For It," Greg left his guitar on delay when they left the stage, suggesting the band was coming back on for more. | | | The next three songs had The Stills' signature elements of guitar driven space rock reminiscing back on the forefathers of shoegazer music - Catherine Wheel and Jesus and Mary Chain. | | | Personally, I see a large influence, both vocally and melodically. |
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| | tonevendor.com :. welcome |
| | Encompassing the best of shoegazer, post-punk, indie rock, no-wave, brit pop and space rock, Bright Channel is forging ahead with a new sound that is highly stylized and unique. | | | Their signature sound consists largely of swirling, melodic guitars lapping against a wall of pounding rhythms. | | | "Oceania", pushes the limits of a four track and weaves together layers of guitars, effects and vocals to create futuristic dream pop soundscapes reminiscent of early shoegaze. |
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http://www.tonevendor.com
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| | The History of Rock Music. Sigur Ros: biography, discography, reviews, links |
| | Von (Smekkleysa, 1997 - One Little Indian, 2004) was an album of conventional psychedelic rock that already emphasized the most haunting qualities of the sound of Pink Floyd, Gong, Cocteau Twins and My Bloody Valentine. | | | Very little happens in these "songs", but the mood is unusually mystical for a rock band, something that borders on Pink Floyd's A Saucerful Of Secrets, PIL's Albatros, Klaus Schulze's Irrlicht, Arvo Part's chamber music, Raphael's new age music, My Bloody Valentine's shoegazing technique and Tibetan mantras. | | | La poesia e l’abilità cinematografica della band si evidenziano nei poemi sinfonici Staralfur eVidar Vel Tl Loftarasa. |
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http://www.scaruffi.com/vol6/sigurros.html
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| | Topic list: Shoegazing? - Fried Chicken's Hockey Fight Site |
| | I was huge into shoegazing and still listen to shoegaze music to this day. | | | I was big into bands like SLOWDIVE, COLFAX ABBEY, THE BLUETONES, RIDE, JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, etc. My friend from college started a group called Aerial Love Feed in NYC which ultimately became my favorite shoegaze band and they were heavily influenced by Slowive. | | | I really liked Catherine Wheel for a while when I was a teenager, also wouldn't call them shoegazing.. |
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| | The Stypod » Little Britain – Shoegazing Down Under |
| | I agree, Sidewinder’s entire Tangerine album is excellent, and sounds as good now as it did back in ‘98. | | | What I was around for instead was the antipodean aftershock—the swirly psychedelic indie rock bands that got some airplay and major label attention as part of the mid-90s “alternative” craze. | | | Being a 24 year old Australian, I was too young and too geographically remote to catch the first wave of “shoegazer” bands to come out of the UK in the early 90s (Ride, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Swervedriver etc). |
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http://stylusmagazine.com/stypod/archives/346
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| | Shoegazing Rare Records, CDs, Vinyl, Memorabilia, Rare Records, CD Singles | | | Shoegazing Records, Shoegazing CDs, Vinyl, Memorabilia, Out Of Print, Rare Records, CD Singles (343 items found.) | | | Contact UsTel: +44 1484 421446 / Fax: +44 1484 531019 |
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http://www.vinyltap.co.uk/shop/style/Shoegazing.aspx
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| | CGR: Shoegazing Bands... |
| | I really like starflyer 59's early stuff, and a friend told me that it was shoegazing music. | | | I'll probably never sell any CDs (if I ever make any, that is) in that case. | | | I've been told that this is the genre I like. |
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http://www.christianguitar.org/forums/showthread.php?t=95033
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| | Band Index |
| | Here´s a list of all the Shoegazing bands I know of, with a bit of info on them and links to their official and unofficial pages: | | | Click here for a list of Non-Shoegazing bands I like | | | Click here for another article about the history of the scene, which even gives us some hope for the future :) |
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| | IPR - Encyclopedia - S |
| | If you are all into post-punk, "shoegazing," or any of that lucid-dreaming music, you need to buy this album. | | | This is the glittering star on top of the Springhouse Christmas tree. |
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| | Sinister: RE: Shoegazing..... (No B&S content) |
| | The probable height for most of the bands was the first Slough festival (this only ran for 2 years and the second one contained bands like Senseless Things and Silverfish!) The only band I associate with Shoegazing from your list is: MBV, and they soon distanced themselves from that tag. | | | Shoegazing was a totally UK based scene which involved any band who 'stared at their shoes'. | | | The bands I would think were best known for the period were Ride, Chapterhouse, Moose, Lush, Revolver, Catherine Wheel (early). |
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http://www.mail-archive.com/sinister@majordomo.net/1998-month-07/msg00471.html
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| | Shoegazing Revisted MetaFilter |
| | Are they technically not a shoegazer band since they are not guitar-driven? | | | I could go on and on about all these bands... | | | The song might have been called "I Want You." Not sure they were shoegaze, and I'm sure they weren't at all good, but I think they were of that era. |
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http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/40088
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| | NME.COM - News - Death In Vegas to appear at London 'shoegazing' club |
| | Alan McGee - who signed many of the original shoegaze bands to his legendary label Creation Records in the late '80s and early '90s - was due to DJ but has had to pull out. | | | Death In Vegas are to make a surprise appearance at acclaimed London 'shoegazing' club Sonic Cathedral tonight(March 2). | | | Find out more about Sonic Cathedral in the pages of NME Magazine, delivered straight to your door every week. |
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http://www.nme.com/news/sonic-cathedral/22373
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| | TrouserPress.com :: Githead |
| | The band's newfound authority also comes across on "Antiphon," a textured, driving instrumental that could almost be a lost track from PiL's Metal Box, largely due to Spigel's lumbering, juddering bass (one of the common sonic denominators on many of Profile's tracks). | | | Profile is a more fully realized exploration of the interface between organic and electronic musics that shows Githead expanding its range and developing a distinctive sound. | | | A more mature, assured feel is evident on the opener, "Alpha," whose densely layered wall of shoegazing guitars infuses the sound with a harder edge and a gravitas at which Headgit only hinted. |
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| | So So Deep: More Shoegazing |
| | After receiving some feedback on SHOEGAZING volume one I decided to take another crack at selecting my favorite and/or defining artists and tracks from the genre. | | | Posted by: amy v at October 4, 2005 07:20 PM Well, I don't really consider anything outside of the UK to be true shoegaze. | | | Posted by: J_John at October 5, 2005 02:43 AM Post a comment |
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http://www.urbanhonking.com/sosodeep/archives/2005/10/more_shoegazing.html
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| | Excellent Online: The History of Shoegazing |
| | Click the 'read more' link to see their list of shoegazing's defining albums. | | | This is probably a bit late, but my brother just found the current issue of Magnet (Mar/Apr 2002). | | | Ride's on the cover and they talk about the 'History of Shoegazing'. |
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| | Music CDs by genre Shoegazing The best music cds at 321-music.com |
| | Their pleasant tunes have supple melodies, a solid Velvets-derived groove, and pretty yet weathered vocals that occasionally sound like Sam Prekop from The Sea and Cake. | | | They have too much cojones, not to mention vaguely bluesy chops, to be considered third-generation "shoegazers." Ambulance Ltd. More... | | | Long before groups like Oasis and Blur provoked cross-Atlantic media hype, Catherine Wheel were evolving the Brit-Pop style that typifies the genre's distinction. |
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| | The Tunnel |
| | This site was created in August 1999 by The Shoegazer due to lack of sites promoting this kind of music. | | | If you're new to this music then this site will hopefully guide you in some way. |
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| | Lostvibe Zeitgeist |
| | A genre of the late 1980s and early 1990s, Shoegazing derives its name from the fact that players often spent most of the time motionless, head down and staring at the floor (or shoes). |
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| | DarrenBarefoot.com: Comment on Shoegazing Music |
| | The people who liten to Shoegazing music are called Shoegazers because they walk around looking at their shoes all day -- hunched shoulders, head down, etc. You know, your generally apathetic indie-music lovin' slacker. | | | Don't know who named it, but I think I know why (at least, this is the understanding I got the first time I heard of it many years ago)... |
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http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=1060
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| | Funender.com : View topic - "Wheels Whirling" and shoegazing, too |
| | For the shoegazers and dream poppers, and others who use the words "reverb" and "delay" in their everyday conversation, here is a brand new song for my first post at this friendly site: | | | Funender.com : View topic - "Wheels Whirling" and shoegazing, too |
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http://www.funender.com/phpBB2/about42720.html
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| | woxy.com > Boards - shoegazing |
| | Actually I did a search and shoegazing was mentioned in 10 or so different threads but I didn't go through and read them all. |
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| | Technorati Tag: shoegazing |
| | Become a member to save searches in a Watchlist. | | | This page shows blog posts, photos, and links that have been tagged shoegazing. | | | To contribute to this page, just post to your blog and include this code. |
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| | last sound of summer: M83 and engineers go shoegazing |
| | Party like it's the early nineties, M83 are offering a return trip to slowdive and early seefeel, and I for one am loving the nostalgia/enormous synth sounds. | | | Please leave comments, they makes me feel special. | | | last sound of summer: M83 and engineers go shoegazing |
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http://lastsoundofsummer.blogspot.com/2005/04/m83-and-engineers-go-shoegazing.html
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