first one is the one for me, all the rest have kind of been a gradual watering down of the original ideas.... sorry if that sounds snobbish, they are all good up in their own way.
shoegazer huh? lots of the stuff on kranky might appeal, stars of the lid, windy and carl - depths are pretty ambient, but, like, REALLY pretty. most people call it ambient post-rock or sth, but thats just splitting hairs to me. Low have released some classic records on kranky, again, strictly i guess it's slow-core, but well worth checking out. Hammock - Maybe they will sing for us again, is the stand out shoegazer this year to me.... if you get your kicks from the textures and space, i have to reccomend a couple of other, more abstract and experimental artists, tim hecker, and christian fennesz. for tim hecker - harmony in ultra violet, is a nice guitar oriented starting point, but radio amor is just in a league of it's own... fennesz - venice is just something else again...
