Suno Shoegaze Prompt: Style and Exclude Lines

Shoegaze example: an electric guitar and a wall of effects pedals on a stage drowned in pink haze and blurred light — Mood still for this style, made with the Lookbook's image prompts. The page has no audio. Scene: an electric guitar and a wall of effects pedals on a stage drowned in pink haze and blurred light.

What it is

Early-90s guitar rock buried in its own noise: layers of reverb-soaked, pitch-bending fuzz guitars, buried breathy vocals and steady drums underneath.

Suno prompt

Two boxes, ready to paste. The Style line goes in Suno's Styles field, the Exclude line in Exclude styles.

Style

shoegaze, early 1990s, walls of reverb-soaked fuzz guitars with tremolo-bar bends, buried wordless breathy vocals, steady mid-tempo drums, warm bass, dreamy and overwhelming, 112 bpm

Exclude

clear lead vocal, lyrics, pop vocal, rap, screaming, metal, grunge, crunchy distortion, EDM, synth pop, acoustic, lo-fi hip hop, autotune

The parts

The lead is the one instrument that carries the tune. Colour instruments add texture and never take the melody. The bed is the rhythm section underneath.

Tempo: 112 bpm
Meter: 4/4
Swing: straight
Key: E major
Lead (carries the tune): fuzz guitar wall
Colour (never the melody): buried breathy vocals, tremolo-bar bends
Bed: steady drums, warm bass

Not this

Not grunge or metal: the distortion is soft and smeared, never crunchy. Not dream pop: denser, louder guitar walls.

Other names

nu-gaze, dreamgaze

Pairs with

out-of-focus handheld into the sun
overexposed film with heavy halation
a soft lowercase sans title

Build a full look around it

The Lookbook deals the camera, light, film look, palette and music that go with this card, and writes one prompt for the whole set.

Open Shoegaze in the Lookbook