shoegazing

From shoe +‎ gazing, because of the tendency of such performers to look down rather than at the crowd and the heavy use of effect pedals.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʃuːɡeɪzɪŋ/

shoegazing (uncountable)

1. (British, music) A subgenre of alternative rock music popularised in early 1990s, characterised by a dreamlike sound making much use of effect pedals, and by a detached or introverted performance style.

   Synonym: shoegaze

   • 2006, James Buckley, Celebrate Myself, 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."

   • 2011, Barney Hoskyns, Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits, page 491:

     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.

   • 2013, Pete Crigler, Majorlabelland And Assorted Oddities, page 91:

     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.

shoegazing

1. present participle and gerund of shoegaze

• shoegazing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

shoegazing m (plural shoegazings)

1. shoegazing