@hifi_swlon I can definitely see understand the reference to the ‘shoegaze’ genre. I was a huge fan of many of the ‘shoegaze’ bands i.e. My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Ride, Chapterhouse and I can see the how Cigarettes After Sex have that genre applied to them, you can feel completely blissed out listening to them and can understand where the term came from, all the guitarists would gaze at the floor, lost in the music they were playing.
Incidentally there has been a big ‘shoe gaze’ revival in the last 5 years over in the U.S. Now called ‘Nu-Gaze’, one of my favourite current bands are School Of Seven Bells (very sad what happened to one of the founding members).
I actually have the original vinyl for those two albums.
867-5309. 
A few people had to change their phone numbers…
A classic Santana sample. Classic album cover too 
The awesome Pi3 touchscreen display and RoonBridge image, is courtesy of the incredible work of @spockfish (Harry) here: Introducing RoPieee - A RoonBridge-to-go image for the Raspberry Pi
I can’t believe how good this album is!
Imagine you are a composer; a famous composer although still plagued with financial worry. Your patron is being invested as an Archbishop, so you want to write a piece of sacred music for him. You have become profoundly deaf, but you still compose in your head. You spend a year preparing, reading all the scores of sacred music you can find. You hope to present your work to your patron at his investiture, but the work consumes you. You can’t stop writing and amending it. It takes five years, three years after the investiture. You sell exclusive rights to publish the work when finished to seven different publishers and shamelessly deny knowledge of their competing claims. You know it will be one of the last things you will ever write. You make it difficult to perform, asking great range and sustain from the soloist voices. Domestic happiness has eluded you and a nephew that you treat as a son has spurned you. You have a reputation as a rationalist, a freethinker. But you write at the start of the piece “To my God, who has never abandoned me”.
You are Beethoven. The work is the Missa Solemnis and the Benedictus, with a solo violin descending to the choir as a metaphor for the Holy Spirit descending to Earth is one of the most beautiful things you have ever written or that a human will ever conceive.
In 1965 Otto Klemperer made one of the definitive recordings of the Missa Solemnis. It’s on Tidal. The Benedictus is the third last section (10:18, the metadata is uninformative). Stop reading this and listen to it. In the dark. Loud.
