Oh, Chapterhouse. Last night’s sonic explosion at the Middle East was without a doubt the loudest show I’ve seen all year, and hearing “Pearl” performed live sure was some Bucket List shit for any die-hard shoegaze fan who was too young to experience the UK band in their early ‘90s heyday. Pardon the euphoric sing-a-long at the end of the clip, courtesy of Karina DeCosta and Jinsen Liu of 28 Degrees Taurus, who opened the show and ran amok around the Cambridge club pretty much the whole night.

One of the key bands in the early ‘90s “Scene That Celebrates Itself,” Chapterhouse’s contribution to the infamous but short-lived shoegaze genre can be summed up neatly within the four ultra-clean minutes of acclaimed 1991 single “Pearl.” With swirling guitars, a relentlessly smooth baggy beat (lifted from a John Bonham sample) and hypnotic, dream pop vocals wistfully dipped down from the moon and enhanced by Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell on backing vocals, few songs are as striking and identifiable.