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music engineered to make heartbreak feel like floating through warm static.
sonic blurGuitars drenched in reverb until melody becomes weather.
buried vocalsLyrics mixed low as instruments, meaning optional.
cocteau rootsCocteau Twins built the genre's hazy blueprint.
shoegaze cousinSofter, prettier sibling of wall-of-noise shoegaze.
named 1980sA-R Kane coined the term describing their sound.