They Are Gutting a Body of Water (TAGABOW) is the Philadelphia shoegaze project of Douglas Dulgarian, active since the late 2010s. Hazy guitars collide with glitchy, sample-based beats in a sound that's helped define internet-era shoegaze — Lucky (2022) is the one to start with. Explore They Are Gutting a Body of Water vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
They Are Gutting a Body of Water is a shoegaze and indie project from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, led by Douglas Dulgarian. Emerging in the late 2010s, the project (often abbreviated TAGABOW) became a prominent name in the modern shoegaze revival, building a following through a steady stream of releases and a distinctive blending of guitar-based and electronic textures.
The project combines shoegaze, slacker rock, and indie rock with glitchy, digital, and sample-based production, layering hazy guitars and washed-out vocals over unconventional, sometimes fragmented beats. The approach has helped define a strand of internet-era shoegaze that fuses traditional dreamy textures with contemporary electronic elements.
As a prolific contemporary project, much of the catalog has circulated digitally, making physical vinyl pressings - often in limited runs - of particular interest to shoegaze-revival collectors.
Listeners new to the project often start with Lucky (2022). For related listening, see and .
