On their third and final album, Pale Saints changed their lead singer and found a balance between expansive shoegaze and tight rock songs

Jangly American and Australian indie rock meets UK shoegaze and dream pop on Glide's 1995 debut album Open Up and Croon

On her third solo outing Only Everything, Juliana Hatfield cranked up the distortion and made one of best guitar rock albums of the 90s

After scoring a top 10 single on their debut album, Letters To Cleo followed it up with more power pop rock that deserved a bigger audience

Adorable pairs their brand of UK shoegaze with touches of 80s alternative and post-punk on their 1993 debut album Against Perfection

After leaving Straightjacket Fits, Andrew Brough layered shimmering guitars and lilting melodies for Bike's lone album Take In The Sun

Infectious hooks mixed with dreamy and distorted guitars save the 1993 album Bring It Down by Madder Rose from a flat production

The third record by that dog. almost didn't happen, but luckily Retreat From The Sun found the light of day loaded with fuzzy goodness.

On their album Split, Lush created a pop-friendly mix of shoegaze and dream pop, but are the layers of reverb and delay dated or timeless?

On their 1992 debut album Doppelgänger, Curve manage to sound simultaneously ahead of their time and firmly planted in the 1990s

What started as a side project for members of the Pixies and Throwing Muses resulted in an influential album that defies rock conventions

On the Jesus And Mary Chain's 1998 album Munki, is there a great album buried in an overlong and inconsistent seventy minutes of music?

American Thighs went platinum with three charting singles but did they falter with the followup?

We explore shoegaze - the bands, sounds, albums, guitar pedals and much more that made up this loosely defined sound and group of artists

Tanya Donelly and Kristin Hersh wield a twin-guitar attack on Throwing Muses 1991 album The Real Ramon that we wanted to like more

Medicine has been called the American My Bloody Valentine, we revisit their 1992 debut album Shot Forth Self Living

Known for the single "Fade Into You" from their sophomore release, She Hangs Brightly showcases the band in their dreamy shoegaze

Calling it "the greatest American shoegaze record" puts some high expectations the Swirlies, but also raises a number of questions

As fans of Vanishing Point, XTRMNTR and Screamadelica can tell you, Give Out... is a hard one to figure out.

Are they punk, post-punk, pop, alternative? And why did we gravitate towards the lyrics? We revisit the 1996 album by Tuscaderoo.

We check out The Juliana Hatfield Three album Become What You Are from 1993