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4 of the Saddest Shoegaze Songs of All Time

By Stephen Andrew Galiher

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Shoegaze is not winning awards for being a genre of rainbows and butterflies. In fact, underneath the wall of fuzzy guitars, you’ll find some of the saddest songs of all time.

Certainly, within context, of course, some shoegaze songs can really wrap their hands around your heart and just squeeze. These four, below, will definitely do that.

“Guilty of Everything” by Nothing

The title track from Philly-born neo-shoegazers Nothing’s second album, Guilty of Everything, is a real downer. But I’ll be damned if it isn’t also a f**kin bop.

It has a slow, melancholy build, like the musical version of a gloomy morning. Eventually, the track crescendos into a bombastic thunderstorm of depression and hopelessness. It’s literally one of my favorite songs ever.

Saddest Lyrics: “I’ll wait for you to go away again / And I will push you far away / I’ve given up, but you shoot anyway / I’m guilty of........

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