Quote Originally Posted by Wales-Bales View Post
Loveless is the genre defining shoegaze album.
It's the best album of that era. But to me, it's not shoegaze. Kevin Shields is a genius. He had a vision and he wasn't shuffling around around looking at his pedals. Isn't Anything and especially Loveless are wall-of-sound, full-on sonic attacks. Massive drums and loads of guitar tracks. Imagine if it was a bloke singing and not Bilinda Butcher. No one would even consider it shoegaze. As far as I know, no one called it shoegaze at the time. That was reserved for the London and Home Counties bands and "the scene that celebrates itself" as Melody Maker called it.