The album featured the first instrumental track to be released by the band and has been described as more ambitious and experimental than Stuck in the Sound's previous effort, Nevermind the Living Dead.

Stuck in the Sound wrote the songs for Shoegazing Kids in their home country of France before travelling to New York in 2008 to work with American producer Nick Sansano.

[2] The band were effusive in their praise of Sansano, saying "we'd come up with an image or a colour for each track and Nick retranscribed our ideas perfectly, adding his own personal touch along the way".

[2] The band themselves felt that thanks to the fact they had worked together in one studio to produce the album, the tracks on Shoegazing Kids were more coherent than those on their previous record.

Stuck in the Sound bassist Arno Bordas explained: "All the tracks were recorded in the same place, written more or less around the same period and mixed by the same person.

[4] The indie rock style of Shoegazing Kids garnered comparisons to bands such as The Pixies, The Smiths and Nirvana,[2] and Fontao's vocals on the album were likened to those of Muse frontman Matt Bellamy.

[1] Thomas Lhuillery of Rock'n'France applauded the record's "catchy choruses and intoxicating riffs",[10] and hailed the track "Ouais" as "a perfect illustration of [the band's] frenzied Britpop".

[10] In her review, Rita Carvalho of Fluctuat praised the guitar work on "Dirty Waterfalls", comparing it to the style of The Cribs guitarist Johnny Marr.

[11] Another critic wrote that while none of the tracks stood out as being particularly bad, the album relied too heavily on its influences, claiming that the band needed "a dose of decadence" to distinguish them from their predecessors.