Simon Reynolds - Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock 1984 - 1994 SIGNED [Book]
This is a pre-order item and is expected 18th June 2026.
A groundbreaking history of late 1980s underground music and the emergence of shoegaze as the defining sound of an era, from acclaimed music journalist Simon Reynolds.
Twenty years after his acclaimed postpunk best-seller, 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 late eighties into the early nineties.
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 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.
PRODUCT DETAIL
Author: Simon Reynolds
Publisher: White Rabbit Books
Format: Paperback
Released: 18th June 2026
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