10 Shoegazing Epics You May Not Have Heard

10. Boards of Canada €“ Seven Forty Seven

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qthHlLyvplg Being responsible for some of the most transcendent music ever created, it only feels right that we should kick off our list with a particularly dense collage from Scottish wizards Boards of Canada. You'll find this on the 2009 Warp 20 (Unheard) compilation. There might be some purists out there who'll argue that €œif it ain't guitars, it ain't shoegaze€. But just listen to this kaleidoscopic swirl of lush drones and tell me that it doesn't owe a debt to Kevin Shields' sacred sonic palette. One of my favourite things about shoegaze is its power to evoke such vivid images in your mind; and for me, Seven Forty Seven conjures a disorientating woodland clearing in which the colours of the forest have started to bleed into one another. Further Listening €“ Dayvan Cowboy (Odd Nosdam Remix) (Trans Canada Highway EP, 2006)