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learns what shoegaze is holy shit

‪this isn't even a shitpost i just have tragically bad genre literacy and this is cool‬

this is giving me a terrible but incredibly “me” idea and i will not tell anyone what it is so i can motivate myself to eventually do it

oops

this is gonna get me because it's electronic music — a sound is synthesised by an oscillator and further processed by an fx chain — except the oscillator is electric guitar strings

i've either just made an extremely bad or extremely good analogy. excited to find out which

@hikari giant pedal boards filled with boutique effects

@hikari Spending so long on it that you nearly bankrupt your record label which would have prevented them from subsequently signing Oasis.

@hikari I've been up front for some live shoegaze and the namesake answer is true: the guitarist was staring at her shoes and turning knobs on pedals the whole time.

@hikari pedals. so many pedals