The Charlottes - Could There Ever Be (from liar - the best of the charlottes)

This was released first in April 1990 when shoegazing got going in Britain. A style I have a soft spot for as it was dominating when I got into indie rock. Combine Lush's ethereal female vocals with My Bloody Valentine's wall of noisy guitar sound and Ride's melodicity plus a grain of the Pale Saints unworldliness and you come close to this.

Definitely a lost classic of shoegazing, dream pop, drone pop or however you want to call this music which gives a counterpoint to the grinding mill of everyday routine. I still like it, I still get immersed into it. Something I cannot say about most current music. Is it only because of the recognition factor? Maybe it is the simplicity I love most about it. It was new in 1990 and there seems to be nothing new now. And the newness has survived, shoegazing was one of the last styles in rock music which did it for me. If I wasn't such a late bloomer it would have been punk or post punk I suppose.