shoegazing

shoegazing puhekieltä A type of Britpop or other indie music of the 1990s, characterised by a dreamlike sound making much use of effect pedals, and by a detached or introverted performance style.
2006, James Buckley, Celebrate Myself, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fbJt-4mncQ8C&pg=PA12&dq=%22shoegazing%22%7C%22shoegazings%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zbxwU97BEIWekwXXooEY&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22shoegazing%22%7C%22shoegazings%22&f=false page 12,

"(..)Anyway, correct me if I'm wrong here, Danny, but wasn't it you who told me that true shoegazing began and ended with Slowdive's 12-inch debut: the imaginatively titled, 'Slowdive'?”

“You're taking me out of context here, dude. What I meant was that it was the epoch of the genre. The other bands still made a valid contribution, they just didn't define the moment."

Johansson and Sitek started out in more faithful lo-fi style before filtering the songs through an indie-rock sensibility that's equal parts postpunk-gothic, 4AD dreampop, shoegazing drone, and TV on the Radio epicness.

Then in 2003, they released Still Electric only on their website; with this album, they'd taken on more of a shoegazing style of rock, similar to Chapterhouse or Catherine Wheel.