#shoegaze

Nine paragraphs about a guitar tone, as promised. Actually four. I have edited myself.

The thing about that whole sound is that it is distance rather than distortion, which took me an embarrassingly long time to actually hear. You can put as much fuzz on a guitar as you like and still sound like a person standing in front of you. What makes it work is the…

There is a volume at which this music stops being music and becomes weather, and finding it is most of the point.

Too quiet and it is a nice song with some effects on. Loud enough and the individual parts stop being separable. You cannot pick out the bass, you cannot follow the vocal line, and the whole thing arrives as one texture you are inside rather than…