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Coupled with the reformations that have taken place by most of its leading lights. My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive and Ride having all played a succession of sold out shows worldwide to a new wave of critical acclaim, with Lush set to follow suit in a few months time. So it was perhaps inevitable - and welcoming - that following on from last year's excellent 'Beautiful Noise' documentary there'd be an anthology boxset waiting to be unleashed somewhere soon.

Still In A Dream: A Story Of Shoegaze collects a mammoth 87 artists across five CDs in one glorious compilation, housed in a book-style box set that also includes a 12,word essay by esteemed music writer Neil Taylor, rare memorabilia and photographs from the era, biographies of each participating band and an American perspective of the genre by Springhouse drummer and editor of The Big Takeover fanzine Jack Rabid.

It represents the most definitive document yet of a scene that was much-maligned at the time, but has since gone on to be one of the most pivotal and influential in the development of modern music. Minor gripes aside first. My Bloody Valentine are conspicuous by their absence. Undoubtedly the leading exponents of shoegaze a tag they've never been comfortable with if the truth be told and responsible for two of its most influential records: Isn't Anything a track off which Still In A Dream Likewise Sonic Youth and The Brian Jonestown Massacre — while neither band would ever claim to be shoegaze in its most linear form, their presence and influence both then and now can never be underestimated.

And for a collection that focuses on the years between and , one would've hoped its creators would surely have considered their inclusion at the very least?

Nevertheless, what Still In A Dream Salisbury's Jane From Occupied Europe deserve a mention too, their excellent debut 'Oceans Run Dry' meriting an inclusion here, if only as a reminder of what a spectacularly underrated, if short lived, band they were. The Boo Radleys ' early single 'Kaleidoscope' - all feedback, reverb and distortion - is as far away from their Wake Up!

Galaxie - This Is Our Music, Drop Nineteens - Delaware, Young Team - Daydreamer, Tamaryn - Tender New Signs, Swirlies - Blonder Tongue Audio Baton, Experimental Aircraft - Third Transmission, For Against - December, Medicine - The Buried Life, Blind Mr.

Jones - Stereo Musicale, Mojave 3 - Ask Me Tomorrow, The Veldt - Afrodisiac, Bailter Space - Robot World, Mira - Apart, Luminous Orange - Luminousorangesuperplastic [EP], Ceremony - Ceremony, The Fauns - The Fauns, Cranes - Loved, Curve - Cuckoo, Asobi Seksu - Citrus, Astrobrite - Whitenoise Superstar, Fleeting Joys - Despondent Transponder, Starflyer 59 - Silver, The Telescopes - The Telescopes, Chapterhouse - Blood Music, Should - Feed Like Fishes, Highspire - Your Everything, Elika - Over Runways, Autolux - Future Perfect, Teenage Filmstars - Star, Difference Engine - Breadmaker, Just leave me a note.

I'm all set with the Butterfly Girl ep, but if you want to share for the sake of everyone else please do. Post a Comment. The whole has a lightness of touch. Then, abruptly, it stops. My Bloody Valentine were clearly inspirational, but the track sounds as fresh as if it were recorded yesterday.

Some forms of popular music, although petrified, are ever-contemporary and still drawn from. Nightblooms are a highlight of the track box set Still in a Dream - A Story of Shoegaze A more-than heroic attempt to corral something which was and remains barely definable as a musical genre, Still in a Dream also collects tracks deeply important to the evolution of British indie-slanted music.

The arrival of Still in a Dream is not a surprise. A genre-dedicated multi-disc set was inevitable at some point as interest continues. Different tracks by all the bands featured on that one appear on Still in a Dream. The shoegazing documentary Beautiful Noise was released in Various bands have been the subjects of reissues.

Shoegazing still exerts an influence, including on bands which have been covered by theartsdesk such as Beach House , M83 , Porcelain Raft , Ulrich Schnauss , and Sennen. Still in a Dream answers this. It is exhaustive: disconcertingly and possibly too-much so.