Captured Tracks launches Shoegaze Archive

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Digging into the rich history of a well-known genre, Captured Tracks has announced the launch of The Shoegaze Archives. The first re-releases to spring forth from the archive will be Should’s A Folding Sieve and deardarkhead Oceanside 1991 – 1993 on 5 December.

Speaking about the reissues Captured Tracks Mike Sniper says:

“Shoegaze. Depending on what side of the fence you sit this is a compliment or a bane. A sound that seems definable only as: “you know, it’s shoegaze.” Loud, gauzy, melancholic and melodic, its appearance in the late 80′s has maintained a steady influence over the entire field of whatever it is we call indie rock ever since, and yet it’s ancestry is only now beginning to be understood. Of course, there was Jesus and Mary Chain, and then My Bloody Valentine, and then Slowdive and Ride. But that’s just the tip of the reverb and distortion iceberg…

Our aim is not to define whatever it was that Shoegaze was and is, or even if it ever was a “thing” in the first place, it’s merely to seek out and make available excellent music that’s currently off the shelves.”

Each release will come fully re-mastered with extensive liner notes and bonus tracks, ahead of which you can listen to efforts from Should and deardarkhead below.

Should – Faded

deardarkhead – Just For you