A good portion of shoegaze does make me bittersweet. But hey that's one of the reasons why I love it so much, it gets that feeling across to me more effectively than most other styles of music. Likewise other musical styles are better at making me feel other emotions than shoegaze. It's my favourite emotion to feel from listening to music and also from watching films.
As you've mentioned not every single song is like that, and 'The Perfect Needle' is a good example (The Telescopes are fucking awesome by the way). But here's an example of a tune that has a frustrated and angry mood:
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