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THE EDITORIAL STAFF'S FAVORITES

Ride - Nowhere
283
Catherine Wheel - Ferment
192
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
185
4
Horrors - Primary Colours
142
5
Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
134
6
Soda Stereo - Dynamo
124
7
Slowdive - Just For A Day
120
8
Slowdive - Souvlaki
103
9
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
101
10
Chapel Club - Palace
96
11
Kitchens Of Distinction - Strange Free World
88
12
Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
75
13
Lush - Spooky
73
14
Chapterhouse - Whirlpool
70
15
Swervedriver - Raise
67
16
My Vitriol - Finelines
62
17
Curve - Doppelgänger
61
18
Pale Saints - The Comforts Of Madness
57
19
Toy - Toy
50
20
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Methodrone
46
21
Swervedriver - Mezcal Head
45
Adorable - Against Perfection
45
23
Whipping Boy - Submarine
42
24
Flying Saucer Attack - Flying Saucer Attack
41
25
Levitation - Need For Not
39
26
DIIV - Deceiver
31
Serena-maneesh - Serena-maneesh
31
28
Deerhunter - Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.
30
29
Bardo Pond - Amanita
29
Ride - Nowhere
Anglo-Irish podium from the early '90s, in keeping with the genre's history. Ride's debut album comfortably takes the top spot with its own take on shoegaze formula, balanced between psychedelia, rock and pop and packed into eleven nearly perfect tracks that express fragility and power at once.
Next up: a surprise entry with Catherine Wheel's debut, followed closely by My Bloody Valentine's landmark second album, widely regarded as the quintessential shoegaze band.
Nothing - Guilty Of Everything
29
31
Walrus - Hikari No Kakera
27
32
Loop - Heaven's End
26
Furry Things - The Big Saturday Illusion
26
Pale Saints - In Ribbons
26
35
Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription
25
36
Lucybell - Lucybell
24
37
Dou Wei & E - 幻聽 (huan Ting)
23
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
23
39
Air Formation - Near Miss
20
Veldt - Afrodisiac
20
Bardo Pond - Bufo Alvarius, Amen 29:15
20
Lucybell - Peces
20
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal
20
44
Deafcult - Auras
19
Cranes - Loved
19
46
Venus Beads - Incision
18
Paik - Satin Black
18
48
Whirr - Distressor
17
49
Ride - Going Blank Again
16
Jesu - Jesu
16
51
A Place To Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
15
Loop - A Gilded Eternity
15
Medicine - Shot Forth Self Living
15
Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentleman We Are Floating In Space
15
Whipping Boy - Heartworm
15

THE EDITORIAL STAFF'S FAVORITE ARTISTS

Ride
299
My Bloody Valentine
286
Slowdive
223
4
Catherine Wheel
205
5
Horrors
142
6
Jesus And Mary Chain
134
7
Soda Stereo
124
8
Swervedriver
112
9
Chapel Club
96
10
Kitchens Of Distinction
88
11
Pale Saints
83
12
Curve
78
13
Alcest
75
14
Lush
74
15
Chapterhouse
70
16
My Vitriol
62
17
Whipping Boy
57
18
Toy
50
19
Bardo Pond
49
20
Brian Jonestown Massacre
46
21
Adorable
45
22
Lucybell
44
23
Flying Saucer Attack
41
Loop
41
25
Levitation
39
26
Spiritualized
37
27
Diiv
31
Serena-maneesh
31
29
Deerhunter
30
Ride
The race for best artist proves tighter, with the English quartet led by Andy Bell and Mark Gardener still edging out Irish shoegaze guru Kevin Shields' outfit by a handful of votes.
In third place are Slowdive, torn between "Just For A Day" and "Souvlaki", confirming their musical status suspended between shoegaze and dream-pop, unable to claim the top spot in either chart.
30
Nothing
29
31
Walrus
27
32
Furry Things
26
33
Spacemen 3
25
34
Dou Wei & E
23
M83
23
36
Air Formation
20
Veldt
20
A Sunny Day In Glasgow
20
39
Deafcult
19
Cranes
19
41
Paik
18
Venus Beads
18
43
Whirr
17
44
Jesu
16
A Place To Bury Strangers
16
46
Medicine
15
47
Lovesliescrushing
14
Swirlies
14
49
Monster Movie
13
Collider
13
Telescopes
13
Asobi Seksu
13
Loveliescrushing
13

CLAUDIO FABRETTI'S FAVOURITES

Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Slowdive - Just For A Day
4
Ride - Nowhere
5
Pale Saints - In Ribbons
6
Jesu - Jesu
7
Horrors - Primary Colours
8
Deerhunter - Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.
9
Cranes - Loved
10
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Methodrone
11
Lush - Spooky
12
Catherine Wheel - Ferment
13
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy

Shoegaze before shoegaze.
The brainchild of the fearsome Reid brothers, from Scotland with fury: a sweet din, rust and honey, deafening feedback and delicate melodies, giving life to a new, disorienting puzzle. It's the premise for the birth of the "shoegazers", even if it would take other bands to fully carry through the insights of Jesus And Mary Chain, since it's likely the Scottish band achieved with this record something well beyond its actual intentions
14
TOY - Toy
15
Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
16
Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde
17
Curve - Public Fruit
18
Verve - A Storm In Heaven
19
Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
20
A Place To Bury Strangers - A Place To Bury Strangers

THE EDITORS' FAVORITES

GIULIANO DELLI PAOLI

  1. Ride - Nowhere
  2. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
  3. Venus Beads - Incision
  4. Chapel Club - Palace
  5. Horrors - Primary Colours
  6. Soda Stereo - Dynamo
  7. Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
  8. Curve - Cuckoo
  9. Lucybell - Peces
  10. Revolver - Cold Water Flat
  1. Pin Ups - Time Will Burn
  2. Lush - Spooky
  3. Pale Saints - The Comforts of Madness
  4. Here - Entre deux soleils
  5. Drop - Within and Beyond
  6. Whipping Boy - Submarine
  7. My Vitriol - Finelines
  8. Slowdive - Just for a Day
  9. Drop Nineteens - Delaware
  10. The Darling Buds - Erotica

MICHELE CORRADO

  1. Ride - Nowhere
  2. Slowdive - Souvlaki
  3. Catherine Wheel - Ferment
  4. Soda Stereo - Dynamo
  5. Horrors - Primary Colours
  6. Whipping Boy - Heartworm
  7. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
  8. Swervedriver - Raise
  9. Pale Saints - The Comforts Of Madness
  10. Los Planetas - La leyenda del espacio
  1. Telescopes - Taste
  2. Blind Mister Jones - Stereo Musicale
  3. Levitation - Need For Not
  4. Chapel Club - Palace
  5. Nothing - Guilty Of Everything
  6. Toy - Toy
  7. Kitchens Of Distinction - Strange Free World
  8. Verve - A Storm In Heaven
  9. Lucybell - Lucybell
  10. Curve - Doppelgänger
  11. DIIV - Is The Is Are
  12. Flying Saucer Attack - Further
  13. My Vitriol - Finelines
  14. Jesu - Jesu
  15. Chapterhouse - Whirlpool
  16. Adorable - Against Perfection
  17. Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
  18. Klimt 1918 - Sentimentale Jugend
  19. Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde
  20. A Place To Bury Strangers - A Place To Bury Strangers

VASSILIOS KARAGIANNIS

  1. Soda Stereo - Dynamo
  2. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
  3. Paik - Satin Black
  4. Chapel Club - Palace
  5. Ride - Going Blank Again
  6. Lucybell - Lucybell
  7. Serena-Maneesh - Serena-Maneesh
  8. Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde
  9. TOY - TOY
  10. My Vitriol - Finelines
  1. Lush - Spooky
  2. Chapterhouse - Whirlpool
  3. Catherine Wheel - Ferment
  4. Walrus - Hikari No Kakera
  5. Veldt - Afrodisiac
  6. Furry Things - The Big Saturday Illusion
  7. She Sir - Go Guitars
  8. Southpacific - Constance
  9. Lilys - In The Presence Of Nothing
  10. Los Planetas - Super 8

GIANFRANCO MARMORO

  1. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
  2. Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
  3. Ride - Nowhere
  4. Swervedriver - Raise
  5. Chapterhouse - Whirlpool
  6. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating in Space
  7. Catherine Wheel - Ferment
  8. Kitchens Of Distinction - Strange Free World
  9. Slowdive - Souvlaki
  10. Pale Saints - The Comforts Of Madness
  1. Loop - Heaven's End
  2. Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels
  3. Brian Jonestown Massacre - Methodrone
  4. Cranes - Loved
  5. Curve - Doppelgänger
  6. Flying Saucer Attack - Flying Saucer Attack
  7. Asobi Seksu - Citrus
  8. Seefeel - Quique
  9. Secret Shine - Untouched
  10. The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa - Sussurate

FRANCESCO NUNZIATA

  1. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
  2. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
  3. Slowdive - Just For A Day
  4. Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
  5. Furry Things - The Big Saturday Illusion
  6. Walrus - Hikari No Kakera
  7. Lovesliescrushing - Xuvetyn
  8. Collider - -><-
  9. A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal
  10. Flying Saucer Attack - Flying Saucer Attack
  1. Ride - Nowhere
  2. The Ecstasy of St. Theresa - Susurrate
  3. Catherine Wheel - Ferment
  4. Veldt - Afrodisiac
  5. Serena-Maneesh - Serena-Maneesh
  6. Medicine - Shot Forth Self Living
  7. Bailter Space - Vortura
  8. Lilys - In the Presence of Nothing
  9. Swervedriver - Mezcal Head
  10. Band Of Susans - The Word and the Flesh
  11. Lush - Gala
  12. Slowdive - Souvlaki
  13. Bright Channel - Bright Channel
  14. Pinkshinyultrablast - Everything Else Matters
  15. The Meeting Places - Find Yourself Along the Way
  16. Pale Saints - In Ribbons
  17. Curve - Doppelgänger
  18. Serena-Maneesh - No 2: Abyss in B Minor
  19. Lovesliescrushing - Girl. Echo. Suns. Veils.
  20. Starflyer 59 - Starflyer 59 [Silver]
  21. A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers
  22. The Charlottes - Things Come Apart
other interesting albums (in alphabetical order)
Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde
Astrobrite - Whitenoise Superstar
Blind Mr. Jones - Stereo Musicale
Boo Radleys - Everything's Alright Forever
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Methodrone
Colfax Abbey - Drop
Kairon; IRSE! - Ujubasajuba
Lost Rivers - Sin and Lostness
Pyramids - Pyramids
Ride - Going Blank Again
Secret Shine - Untouched
Should - A Folding Sieve
Silversun Pickups - Carnavas

MICHELE SARAN

  1. Bardo Pond - Bufo Alvarius, Amen 29:15
  2. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
  3. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
  4. Brian Jonestown Massacre - Methodrone
  5. Slowdive - Just For A Day
  6. Bardo Pond - Amanita
  7. M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
  8. Catherine Wheel - Ferment
  9. Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription
  10. Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde
  1. Ride - Nowhere
  2. Spiritualized - Pure Phase
  3. Curve - Doppelgänger
  4. Fire To The Stars - Made Of Fire
  5. Loop - Heaven's End
  6. Flying Saucer Attack - Flying Saucer Attack
  7. Deafheaven - Sunbather
  8. Teenage Filmstars - Star
  9. Pinkshinyultrablast - Everything Else Matters
  10. Slowdive - Souvlaki
  11. Serena-Maneesh - Serena-Maneesh
  12. Swervedriver - Mezcal Head
  13. Exitmusic - Passage
  14. Th' Faith Healers Lido
  15. Pale Saints - In Ribbons
  16. Heave A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
  17. Seefeel - Quique
  18. Deerhunter - Cryptograms
  19. Bowery Elecric - Beat
  20. Ringo Deathstarr Colour Trip
  21. Spectrum Soul Kiss
  22. Julian Lynch Orange You Glad
  23. Swirlies Blonder Tongue Audio Baton
  24. Lush - Gala

CRISTIANO ORLANDO

  1. Ride - Nowhere
  2. Curve - Doppelgänger
  3. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
  4. Catherine Wheel - Ferment
  5. Lush - Spooky
  6. Slowdive - Souvlaki
  7. Chapterhouse - Whirlpool
  8. Swervedriver - Mezcal Head
  9. Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
  10. Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
  1. Pale Saints - In Ribbons
  2. Medicine - Shot Forth Self Living
  3. A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal
  4. Sweet Trip Velocity: Design: Comfort
  5. Adorable - Against Perfection
  6. Walrus - Hikari No Kakera
  7. LSD And The Search Of God Heaven Is A Place
  8. Malory Not Here - Not Now
  9. Kitchens Of Distinctions - The Death Of Cool
  10. M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts

FEDERICO ROMAGNOLI

  1. Soda Stereo - Dynamo
  2. Ride - Nowhere
  3. Horrors - Primary Colours
  4. Catherine Wheel - Ferment
  5. Kitchens Of Distinction - Strange Free World
  6. Whipping Boy - Submarine
  7. Levitation - Need For Not
  8. Chapel Club - Palace
  9. Grazhdanskaya Oborona - Солнцеворот (Solntsevorot)
  10. Dou Wei & E - 幻聽 (Huan ting)

MATTEO TRAPASSO

  1. Ride - Nowhere
  2. Horrors - Primary Colours
  3. Catherine wheel - Ferment
  4. Slowdive - Just for a day
  5. Kitchens of distinction - Strange Free World
  6. Soda Stereo - Dynamo
  7. My Vitriol - Finelines
  8. Chapel Club - Palace
  9. TOY - TOY
  10. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't anything
  1. Whipping Boy - Submarine
  2. Adorable - Against Perfection
  3. Lucybell - Peces
  4. Levitation - Need for not
  5. Swervedriver - Mezcal Head

VALERIO DONOFRIO

  1. Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
  2. Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
  3. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
  4. Slowdive - Just For A Day
  5. Ride - Nowhere
  6. Loop - A Gilded Eternity
  7. Bardo Pond - Amanita
  8. Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription
  9. Pale Saints - The Comforts of Madness
  10. Flying Saucer Attack - Flying Saucer Attack

CLAUDIO LANCIA

  1. Nothing - Guilty Of Everything
  2. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
  3. Slowdive - Souvlaki
  4. Deerhunter - Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.
  5. Ride - Nowhere
  6. A Place To Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
  7. Swervedriver - Raise
  8. DIIV - Deceiver
  9. Chapterhouse - Whirlpool
  10. Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
  1. Catherine Wheel - Ferment
  2. Curve - Doppelgänger
  3. Loop - Heaven's End
  4. Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
  5. Swallow - Blow
  6. Amusement Parks On Fire - Amusement Parks On Fire
  7. Swirlies Blonder Tongue Audio Baton
  8. Lush - Spooky
  9. Froth - Outside (Briefly)
  10. Lilys - In The Presence Of Nothing
  11. Brian Jonestown Massacre - Methodrone
  12. Klimt 1918 - Sentimentale Jugend
  13. Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
  14. Pale Saints - The Comforts Of Madness
  15. Adorable - Against Perfection
  16. Seefeel - Quique
  17. Flying Saucer Attack - Further
  18. My Vitriol - Finelines
  19. Whirr - Sway
  20. TOY - Toy

DANIEL MOOR

  1. Slowdive - Souvlaki
  2. Ride - Nowhere
  3. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
  4. Lush - Spooky
  5. Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
  6. Chapterhouse - Whirlpool
  7. Pale Saints - The Comforts Of Madness
  8. Catherine Wheel - Chrome
  9. Curve - Doppelgänger
  10. Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
  1. Horrors - Primary Colours
  2. Asobi Seksu - Citrus
  3. Swervedriver - Raise
  4. Kitchens Of Distinction - Strange Free World
  5. Veldt - Afrodisiac
  6. Swirlies Blonder Tongue Audio Baton
  7. DIIV - Deceiver
  8. Nothing - Guilty Of Everything
  9. Tamaryn - The Waves
  10. Jesu - Jesu

GIULIA QUARANTA

  1. Air Formation - Near Miss
  2. Deafcult - Auras
  3. Ride - Nowhere
  4. Whirr - Distressor
  5. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
  6. Catherine Wheel - Ferment
  7. DIIV - Deceiver
  8. Monster Movie - Keep the Voices Distant
  9. Horrors - Primary Colours
  10. Ringo Deathstarr Colour Trip
  1. Serena-Maneesh - Serena-Maneesh
  2. Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
  3. Lush - Spooky
  4. Tokyo Shoegazer - Crystallize
  5. Adorable - Against Perfection
  6. Swirlies - The Glittering World Of Salons
  7. Minor Victories - Minor Victories
  8. Lsd and the search for god - Lsd and the search for god
  9. Newmoon - Space
  10. The Veldt - Thanks to the Moth and Areanna Rose
Italogaze
1. Soviet Soviet - Endless
2. Felpa - Paura
3. Brothers In Law - Hard Time For Dreamers
4. Be Forest - Cold
5. Rev Rev Rev - Des fleurs magiques bourdonnaient
6. Klimt 1918 - Sentimentale Jugend
7. Novanta - Some Are Stars
8. Weird. - A Long Period Of Blindness
9. Obree - Haze
10. TENUE - Filtro

MARIA TERESA SOLDANI

  1. Ride - Nowhere
  2. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
  3. Slowdive - Souvlaki
  4. Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
  5. Adorable - Against Perfection
  6. Swervedriver - Raise
  7. Catherine Wheel - Ferment
  8. Loveliescrushing - bloweyelashwish
  9. The Meeting Places - Find Yourself Along the Way
  10. My Vitriol - Finelines
  1. Brian Jonestown Massacre - Methodrone
  2. Flying Saucer Attack - Flying Saucer Attack
  3. Drop Nineteens - Delaware
  4. Bowery Electric - Bowery Electric
  5. Windy & Carl - Depths
  6. Furry Things - The Big Saturday Illusion
  7. Chapterhouse - Whirlpool
  8. Telescopes - Taste
  9. Loop - Heaven's End
  10. Helen - The Original Faces
  11. Slowdive - Just For A Day
  12. Loveliescrushing - xuvetyn
  13. Medicine - Shot Forth Self Living
  14. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
  15. Jessica Bailiff - Even In Silence
  16. A Place To Bury Strangers - A Place To Bury Strangers
  17. Lush - Gala
  18. Soda Stereo - Dynamo
  19. Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
  20. Whirr - Distressor
  21. Whipping Boy - Submarine
  22. Band of Susans - The Word And The Flesh
  23. Starflyer 59 - Gold
  24. Seefeel - Quique
  25. Alison's Halo - Eyedazzler
  26. Blind Mr. Jones - Stereo Musicale
  27. Verve - A Storm In Heaven
  28. Pale Saints - In Ribbons
  29. Asobi Seksu - Citrus
  30. Kitchens of Distinction - Strange Free World
  31. Daniel Land & The Modern Painters - Love Songs For The Chemical Generation
  32. Lilys - In the Presence Of Nothing
  33. Candy Claws - Ceres & Calypso In The Deep Tim
  34. Nothing - Guilty of Everything
  35. Jesu - Jesu
  36. LSD and the Search for God - LSD and the Search for God
  37. Amusement Parks on Fire - Out of the Angeles
  38. No Joy - Wait to Pleasure
  39. Bardo Pond - Amanita
  40. Boo Radleys - Giant Steps

GIACOMO RIVOIRA

  1. Ride - Nowhere
  2. Horrors - Primary Colours
  3. Soda Stereo - Dynamo
  4. Kitchens of distinction - Strange Free World
  5. Chapel Club - Palace
  6. Slowdive - Just for a day
  7. TOY - TOY
  8. Catherine wheel - Ferment
  9. Whipping Boy - Submarine
  10. My Vitriol - Finelines
  1. Levitation - Need for not
  2. Swervedriver - Mezcal Head
  3. Adorable - Against Perfection
  4. Lucybell - Lucybell
  5. Curve - Doppelgänger

GIOELE SFORZA

  1. Ride - Nowhere
  2. Soda Stereo - Dynamo
  3. Horrors - Primary Colours
  4. Catherine Wheel - Ferment
  5. Slowdive - Just For A Day
  6. Kitchens of Distinction - Strange Free World
  7. Swervedriver - Mezcal Head
  8. Chapel Club - Palace
  9. Dou Wei & E - 幻聽 (Huan ting)
  10. My Vitriol - Finelines