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Interesting Info: This EP featured Andrea Heukam who provided vocals on the Hill. It’s droning vocal and buzzing guitars would be a blueprint many subsequent bands would use. This may be a stretch, lumping the House of Love in with the shoegazers, but I would argue that Christine is early and influential in the scene. Interesting Info: Masters left the Pale Saints after their next album In Ribbons and Meriel Barham took over singing duties on the band’s final underwhelming album Slow Buildings. Your reward was Ian Masters shrieking at the top of his lungs. To hear it you had the lift up the needle and place it down. If you bought the vinyl version of this, it had a freaky hidden fifth track called The Colour of the Sky. This is probably the most straightforward the Pale Saints ever sounded. This EP was produced by Chris Allison who had recently worked with the Wedding Present and he did make them sound a bit more rocking. Singer and guitarist Mat Flint currently plays in Deep Cut.Ī concept EP about life in the womb. Interesting Info: Revolver released on one album called Cold Water Flat. Red All Over is great and their cover of Strawberry Switchblade’s Since Yesterday was a pleasant surprise. Their first two EPs (45 and Crimson) were spotty, but the third one really seemed catch them finally living up to their potential. Revolver were a trio of teenagers that took a powerpop bent on shoegaze. Interesting Info: I once interviewed Kevin Shields and asked him about his lyrics. Kevin Shields could probably make his guitar sound like purring kitty cat if we wanted to

These were guitars!?!? They sounded like flutes and sound tubes. The Tremelo EP upped the stakes for everyone. No shoegaze list is complete without the godfathers of shoegaze. Interesting Info: Toni Halliday put out a solo album called Hearts and Handshakes prior to forming Curve. The Frozen EP and the Cherry EP soon followed, but didn’t reach the heights of this one. The duo of Dean Garcia and Toni Halliday could do no wrong in the eyes of the British Press during the run of initial EPs. They had a rapper (JC-001) on Ten Little Girls, Wah Wah guitar on I Speak Your Every Word. Mining the industrial side of shoegaze, Curve’s first EP was pretty impressive. Interesting Info: Moose toured the US opening for the Cocteau Twins in the mid 90’s. Not really a surprise since this is brilliant also. They would do an about face and get Mitch Easter to produce their first album and it would be brilliant. Moose quickly eschewed the shoegaze tag on their first album XYZ, but their first two EP’s are firmly entrenched in the scene that celebrated itself. Headtime made one other EP called Graham before disbanding. Interesting Info: There is very little information to be be gleaned from the internet about this band. In any event it’s a much better instrumental choice than the flute (hello Blind Mr. The title track features some sitar which may be a first. Headtime probably got lumped into the shoegaze crowd because they favored a big guitar sound and had a slightly blurry fish cover for their first EP. Headtime – Have You Heard EP (Cherry Red) He would not only play it to death, but sing Mesmerize a capella at top volume. Interesting Info: My roommate in college played this EP so much he nearly made me hate it. Four songs pushing the boundaries of what people thought shoegaze was. This is the pinnacle of the Chapterhouse discography. Mesmerize was kind of a psychedelic curve ball after the blissed out Whirlpool album with its piano riff and tuba blasts. Interesting Info: Many people thought singer Ben Bently was a girl based on his singing voice. These guys released four ep’s and each one of them is a shoegaze classic.

At the time they got tagged as the T-Rex’s of scene. No one ever mentions Sweet Jesus when they talk about shoegaze which is a minor crime. Interesting Info: If you hadn’t noticed this blog is named after The Finest Kiss, the lead track on this EP. This EP along with Boo Up! and Kaleidoscope make for an unsurpassed shoegaze EP trilogy. The killer bass line of The Finest Kiss draped over by shards of blistering guitar are a recipe for single of any week.

I believe this got single of the week in Melody Maker and for good reason. The Boo Radleys – Every Heaven EP (Rough Trade) Here is my list of favorite shoegaze EP’s from that time. Often a band would do a brilliant EP and then never reach the same heights on the album, or never even make an album. Albums were slow to come and often disappointing but the EPs came quick and were often a band’s pinnacle. Those of us there at the time know that it was all about the EP. My recollection wasn’t about the great albums, though there were some, but about the EP’s. A couple of recent shoegaze album lists from Sounds Better with Reverb and Surfing on Steam prompted me to recall those heady days of shoegaze between 19.