#Guitar

A guitar is a type of string instrument that legitimizes noise under the guise of self-expression. It carves both pain and pride into your fingertips with every metallic string you pluck. It also deceives you into believing that turning up the amp can mask any lack of skill with a wall of sound. For beginners, it is a friend; for experts, an ever-present challenger that never relinquishes its grip.

Shoegaze is a musical style where performers stare intently at their pedalboards on stage, submerging audiences in a sea of noisy reverb. Band members lavish more affection on their effect pedals' LED lights than on the crowd, weaving poetic moods suspended between self-expression and deliberate absence. Their posture resembles meditating monks, yet it's actually a nerve-wracking pedal war. What lingers in your ears isn't melody or vocals, but the hushed unrest exhaled by walls of sound.