“Imagine if shoegazer became the standard in popular music like jazz did in the 1940s. Some equivalent of Ken Burns would at some point make a 10-hour epic chronicling the rise of Slowdive, Ride, Chapterhouse, and most notably My Bloody Valentine, and the shoegazing equivalent of Dave Brubeck would counter the attacks of purists with pronouncements like, "Any idiot can swirl."
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