Nu gaze

Nu gaze
Stylistic origins	Shoegazing
Cultural origins	Early 2000s, England, United States
Typical instruments	Guitar vocals bass drums keyboards

A sample of Silversun Pickups's song "Panic Switch", from their 2009 album Swoon. The song features distorted guitars, walls of sound, and modern synthesizers.

Nu gaze (sometimes called newgaze) is a form of alternative rock that originated in the 2000s that is directly influenced by the primarily British shoegaze scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s.^[1] A renewed interest in shoegaze occurred in the early 2000s when bands such as Maps, My Vitriol, Silversun Pickups, and The Radio Dept. first emerged across both sides of the Atlantic. The origin of the moniker "nu gaze" has been credited to an interview in 2001 with My Vitriol frontman Som Wardner about the band's music.^[2]

According to an article in The Oxford Student, music from the genre features "droning riffs, subdued vocals and walls of distorted, messy guitar or synth".^[3]

The shoegaze revival draws inspiration heavily from shoegaze but incorporates more modern synthesizers and drum tracks. Starting in the early 2020s, newer bands started to blend shoegaze with nu metal, grunge, post-punk & noise rock influences.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. Rogers, Jude (27 July 2007). "Diamond gazers". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 26 July 2009.
2. "Paint It Back // My Vitriol ~ Finelines - GoldFlakePaint". Goldflakepaint.co.uk. 5 April 2013. Archived from the original on 30 June 2022. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
3. Travers, Katherine (6 October 2010). "Hidden Treasures: Nu-Gaze". The Oxford Student. Retrieved 7 June 2011.