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Just for a Day, their debut studio album, was released on 2 September 1991. In the early 90s, there was another musical giant besides My Bloody Valentine - Slowdive. Heaven or Las Vegas is their sixth studio album, released on 17 September 1990 and is known as one of the best-ever releases of the label. The album Treasure truly lived up to its name, becoming a memorable record along with their 1982 debut Garlands, with the song Head over Heels being a gorgeous proto-shoegaze record. Singles released from it, such as Just Like Honey and Never Understand, became hits of the underground, and the album itself, with its sharp, detached, but melodic sound, became iconic.Īround the same time, the dream pop masterminds Cocteau Twins came to their characteristically unearthly, fueled by an absorbing reverberation of sound. It was an unusual combination of pop music structures and experimental noise arrangements. A remarkable melodic combination came from The Jesus and the Mary Chain in a release of their debut album Psychocandy in 1985, making them one of the earliest shoegazers in the 80s alternative music scene. The peak point of shoegaze's first wave popularity is an album by My Bloody Valentine Loveless in 1991 - a typical example of a perfectly knocked-down, overloaded sound and atmospheric melancholy. Its control requires concentration, so the musicians, like the Moose vocalist, don't move a lot and throughout concert carefully look at the floor The term was fixed because shoegaze band guitarists use bundles of many guitar methods to create a complex sound. It was as if he were gazing at his own shoes, which is what shoegaze means, "gazing at shoes". Throughout the performance, the band's vocalist stood with his head down, reading lyrics from a piece of paper on the floor. The term "shoegaze" was coined by an NME journalist after attending a concert by the British band Moose.