Friday fun: Shoegaze is popular again

I was at the coffee shop at the corner getting my morning cuppa last week, and the youngins working there were listening to something that surprised me: the song Sweetness and Light, by Lush. From 1990. I’m old enough to have bought this (it was an EP, on CD with just a few songs — yep, that was a real thing!) shortly after it came out, way back then. Because, like I said, I’m old.Thankfully, everything old is new again. Rolling Stone confirms it: Shoegaze Has Never Been Bigger Than It Is Right Now.The kids have re-discovered it, and they like it. Loud guitars, a bit ethereal, often undecipherable vocals, sort of like if you started with the Cocteau Twins and then added distortion. (If you’re a generation older than me, think of it like when Dylan went electric, if Dylan were the Cocteau Twins.) It’s noisy, and good.And so, for this week’s Friday fun post, I share with you Lush, one of my favorite bands in the shoegaze indie sub-genre, with their first single, and first big hit:…

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