I find it's a fine line. Sometimes I love it when the vocals are obscured by the guitars and other times it makes the music completely dreary and boring.
For example, the vocals on "Just For A Day" make that album a complete fucking snoozefest for me but "Souvlaki" is great.
>>60017771>>60017794I tend to think of "shoegaze" as an umbrella term which captures related genres like dream pop, noise pop, noise rock, noisy shoegaze, ambient shoegaze, electronic shoegaze etc.