Cathedral Classics Volume One cover

Cathedral Classics Volume One

Various Artists

Released

2009

Collecting tracks from the first run of seven-inch singles that the Sonic Cathedral label released, 2009’s Cathedral Classics Volume One compilation served as an excellent full-length marker that shoegaze and similar approaches were fully alive and well in a younger generation of bands. A couple of veterans appear in the form of Ride’s Mark Gardener and Dean and Britta among others, but the presence of School of Seven Bells (in the form of a Robin Guthrie remix), Maps, Japancakes, Daniel Land and the Modern Painters and M83 all showed where the sound was going next.