Still in a Dream : Shoegaze, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984–1994 | Simon Reynolds (SIGNED)

The definitive story of the slackers and shoegazers who reinvented underground rock in the UK and the US.

Twenty years after his acclaimed postpunk bestseller, Rip It Up and Start Again, Simon Reynolds tells the tale of what happened next: the underground explosion of noisepop, shoegaze, slacker rock and grunge that reverberated through the mid-1980s into the early 1990s.

Capturing the musical exhilaration of the era along with the alienation of youth during a period of ascendant conservative politics and glitzy mainstream pop, Still in a Dream celebrates a golden age of guitar reinvention, a second psychedelia of mind-blowing sounds pioneered by bands like My Bloody Valentine, Spacemen 3 and Sonic Youth. In Britain, groups like Cocteau Twins and Slowdive escaped into shimmering dreamworlds while American underground rockers like Dinosaur Jr. and Pavement blended apathy and urgency into thrilling noise.

A propulsive and personal account from a journalist who covered this music in real time from the frontlines, Still in a Dream vividly recreates a period that was the last blast for the analogue culture of vinyl records and music papers, before the internet changed everything.

Size: 153 x 235 x 37mm

Pages: 456

Publisher: White Rabbit