Catherine Wheel “Ferment” (1992)

The very definition of noisy pop, or “shoegaze” as we name it now, together with Ride’s “Nowhere”. As students in 1991 & 1992 we were so lucky (and didn’t realize it) to be witnessing the birth of the pure shoegaze era with Ride, Slowdive, Lush, My Bloody Valentine, Chapterhouse, Catherine Wheel and the return of The Jesus and Mary Chain…