’90s music journalists coined the term “shoegaze” as a pejorative to describe bands such as Ride and My Bloody Valentine whose members were overly fixated on their effects pedals. Nowadays, musicians wear the tag proudly, perhaps none so much as singer-guitarist Danny Moffat, who leads the shoegazey-as-hell Boston-based outfit the Collect Pond.
“To me, ‘shoegaze’ means you have an aggressive wall of sound and you’re being very creative with layers of guitars, all of which is good,” Moffat says. “Plus, we tend to mix the vocals a little low, which is a shoegaze hallmark. We’re influenced by the whole scene, and we’re influencing it right back.”
