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A new genre, especially something called "shitgaze", is always going to grab the attention, but requires more to live beyond the shock moment.
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As an aesthetic club, bedroom pop could be seen as an outgrowth of, or at least born from the same circumstances as "shitgaze," the movement involving intentionally blown-out/sandblasted/tape-hissed recordings of sharp pop-punk songs that captured the hearts of electro-tired music bloggers over the past few years.
Baltimore City Paper 2010
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Or otherwise it's a pretty high quality pisstake (and consider that this is part of the no-fi or 'shitgaze' movement … yeah, cool) … Apparently highly popular in New York where Mr. Dog, it's one man behind the band, is based - and there's some link to Crystal Stilts.
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The best part, I think, is the Horseshit's take on the current trend of lo-fi recording, and a tirade on the whole "shitgaze" scene (a term which, Enbom points out, the interviewee Matt Whitehurst himself coined).
Portland Mercury 2009
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Fantastic Brooklyn transplants and "shitgaze" provocateurs,
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Fantastic Brooklyn transplants and "shitgaze" provocateurs,
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While snobs argue about the differences between lo-fi, shitgaze and post-whatever, these musical veterans bust out a combination of B-movie sleaze, sexploitation and prog that can awe the most jaded hipster.
Latest stories 2010
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Of all the embarrassingly named subgenres born over the past ten years-chillwave, hipster-hop, UK funky, shitgaze-my favorite is dubstep.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Or Goat by the Jesus Lizard, whose unhinged legacy echoes still today in the shitgaze aesthetics of Times New Viking, or the brutal guitar onslaught of, say, Boris.
PopMatters 2010
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King of the Beach a few weeks ago, I think it bears repeating here: what's so immediately gratifying about shitgaze is what ultimately undermines its attempts to resonate any more deeply-taking simplistic pop music and submerging it in distortion is a pretty cheap trick, and it's not substantial enough a gimmick to compensate for the vacuousness its used to obscure.
Cokemachineglow.com 2010
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