Still in a Dream : Shoegaze, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984–1994 - Signed First Edition with FREE Fanzine

by Reynolds, Simon | Music: styles & genres
Published 18/06/2026 by Orion Publishing Co (White Rabbit) in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 416 pages
234 x 153mm | 0g

Signed First Edition - Paperback - Publishes June 18th - Ships with Limited & FREE Fanzine

The definitive story of the slackers and shoegazers who reinvented rock.

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.