Shoegazer Granulate

[adam]

I wouldn't really count Spiritualized as shoegaze because the choices and melody and mixes don't really seem to me to be characteristic of the genre. But I was listening to "Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To" and it struck me as very much a stylistic predecessor to the washed out sounds of MBV et al. I've never heard that observation repeated elsewhere, so there may be some obvious fact that invalidates it, but that's how it seemed to me...