Roots of Whirl

Baggy-adjacent shoegazers of the Creation Records scene.

The definitive shoegaze band — Loveless remains the genre's north star.

Reading dream-shoegaze quartet that made rain sound cinematic.

Glossolalia and cathedral guitars; the blueprint for dream pop.

Codeine is an American indie rock band formed in 1989 in New York City. They released two full-length albums—Frigid Stars LP in 1990 and The White Birch in 1994. Although the group broke up in 1994 shortly after the release of The White Birch, their subdued and melancholic style helped pioneer the then-nascent slowcore subgenre of indie rock. Codeine has since reunited on two occasions: the first for a handful of shows in 2012, and a second time for a series of shows in New York City and Los Angeles in 2023.