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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
4AD didn't really start the whole shoegaze thing. Their sound is more commonly thought of as kind of ethereal or goth-light. Perhaps i'm wrong, but i've always assumed that Creation, in a way, was more responsable for the 'shoegaze' factor of a lot of bands.
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The Cocteau Twins probably inspired the shoegaze thing, rather than started it. There was far too much going on in their music for it actually be called shoegaze, but some of the later-80s drifty/ambient stuff that they put out was probably something that many shoegaze-type bands picked up on.