Pitchfork's 50 Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time

Pitchfork's 50 Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time

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48.

Nothing - Tired of Tomorrow
May 13, 2016
Critic Score
74
18 reviews

A collection that sounds happy, and more importantly comforting, even when you know, as you always did, that there's no point in going on, but that we all do anyhow.

47.

The Telescopes - Taste
June 1, 1989
Critic Score
50
1 review

45.

Drop Nineteens - Delaware
June 5, 1992
Critic Score
70
2 reviews

44.

Autolux - Future Perfect
November 26, 2004
Critic Score
82
6 reviews
Azar, Edwards, and Goreshter now emerge from their slumber, preserved and prepared, ready to scorch the earth with their afterburn.

43.

The Veldt - Afrodisiac
February 8, 1994
Critic Score
80
1 review

42.

Adorable - Against Perfection
March 1, 1993
Critic Score
80
1 review

41.

Starflyer 59 - Gold
June 27, 1995
Critic Score
60
1 review

40.

Curve - Doppelgänger
March 9, 1992
Critic Score
73
3 reviews

37.

Asobi Seksu - Citrus
May 30, 2006
Critic Score
79
13 reviews

36.

Bowery Electric - Bowery Electric
August 16, 1995
Critic Score
80
2 reviews

34.

Pale Saints - In Ribbons
March 23, 1992
Critic Score
80
1 review

30.

Blonde Redhead - 23
April 10, 2007
Critic Score
77
17 reviews

29.

Medicine - Shot Forth Self Living
September 15, 1992
Critic Score
90
1 review

27.

Lush - Spooky
January 27, 1992
Critic Score
75
6 reviews

24.

Lilys - In the Presence of Nothing
September 1, 1992
Critic Score
70
1 review

22.

M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
April 14, 2003
Critic Score
77
10 reviews

An album like this extends far beyond your speakers, guiding you through an impossibly rich, detailed world of sound while also giving you room to explore it yourself; you don't listen to Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, you inhabit it.

20.

Jesu - Jesu
December 8, 2004
Critic Score
75
4 reviews

19.

Curve - Pubic Fruit
April 1, 1992
Critic Score
80
1 review

18.

Kitchens of Distinction - Strange Free World
March 18, 1991
Critic Score
78
2 reviews

17.

Chapterhouse - Whirlpool
April 29, 1991
Critic Score
80
2 reviews

15.

Swervedriver - Raise
September 30, 1991
Critic Score
82
2 reviews

14.

my bloody valentine - m b v
February 3, 2013
Critic Score
87
42 reviews

Where Loveless felt effortless, mbv strains, pushing at its boundaries with a sense of pensive gloom. 

13.

Seefeel - Quique
December 1, 1993
Critic Score
87
3 reviews

10.

Swervedriver - Mezcal Head
September 27, 1993
Critic Score
78
4 reviews

8.

Lush - Gala
November 13, 1990
Critic Score
82
3 reviews

3.

Ride - Nowhere
October 15, 1990
Critic Score
79
4 reviews

1.

my bloody valentine - loveless
November 4, 1991
Critic Score
90
7 reviews
Original Source: http://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9966-the-50-best-shoegaze-albums-of-all-time/
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