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Dreampop Recommendations

M

Menome

Member
Dreampop is a musical subgenre I've got some examples of in my collection, but I need to branch out a bit more with it, especially with some good stuff turning up in the latest season of Twin Peaks.

So, I'm looking for some suggestions on bands + albums I should check out please. I won't try and remember off the top of my head what I have that classifies, so all ideas are welcome.

Thanks in advance to anyone who helps out.
 
W

Weetrick

Member
Asobi Seksu, Beach House and Blonde Redhead are essential. Listen to anything by them. If you've never heard these bands before, you're in for a treat.
 
E

El Topo

Member
Glass - Bat for Lashes
Black Cherry - Goldfrapp
Science & Blood Tests - Highasakite

Not sure if these songs really still fall into dream pop. Music classification is not my strong suite.

Edit:
Maybe also check out School of Seven Bells?
 
TissueBox

TissueBox

Member
Beach House, they are beautiful.

Particularly with the albums Teen Dream, Bloom, and Depression Cherry.

Also good:
DIIV
Cocteau Twins
 
C

Cosmic Schwung

Member
Nice, few names I've not come across before.

Here are a few suggestions:
Boardwalk
Tamaryn
Still Corners
The Fauns
On Dead Waves
Cigarettes After Sex
Silver Swans
Warpaint
School of Seven Bells

JadedWriter said:
I'm also going through some of the recommendations and some of this doesn't exactly strike me as dream pop. Unless I listen to a lot of the more darker themed dream pop. It's either that or new dream pop and the older stuff are two very different genres.
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Dream pop can be a bit variable. I'd personally consider Cranes to be on the heavier side of things.
 
E

ErrorMacro

Member
Beach House and Cocteau Twins are two staples of the genre.

Echo Lake is not as known, but it's pretty good. Both its albums are great.

Echo Lake - Era
Echo Lake - Swimmers

Japanese Breakfast is a new one, and its pretty good. They just launched their second album too!

Japanese Breakfast - The Woman That Loves You

Mazzy Star, Memory House also have some pretty nice stuff.

Pinkshinyultrablast is less dreampop and more Psychedelic Rock/Shoegaze I think, but I've been quite fond of it lately.
 
M

Myriadis

Member
Fishmans - Long Season might count, but they also have progressive/psychedelic elements. And yes, it is essentially one 35 minute song.

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Also, Youth Lagoon, sound kinda like Beach House.

Plus Kitchens of Destinction, if you like Smithesque 80s Dreampop
 
P

Psychoward

Banned
Beach House is one of my favorite bands ever, Wild Nothing is really good as well.

Mazzy Star is a classic

My Bloody Valentine is kind of dream pop

Really dream pop kinda encompasses a bunch of different styles so idk, but TR/ST is really good too, albeit that's more synth pop.
 
P

Psychoward

Banned
TissueBox said:
Beach House, they are beautiful.

Particularly with the albums Teen Dream, Bloom, and Depression Cherry.

Also good:
DIIV
Cocteau Twins
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Devotion is arguably their best album though?

I love them all though, I have Teen Dream and Depression Cherry on vinyl and Depression Cherry is this really nice velvet cover.

Saw them live too and they were mesmerizing, I loved how the lights synced up with 10 Mile Stereo and Levitation particularly. I've got a gif back on my laptop that I'll post once I'm home.
 
J

JadedWriter

Member
Psychoward said:
Beach House is one of my favorite bands ever, Wild Nothing is really good as well.

Mazzy Star is a classic

My Bloody Valentine is kind of dream pop

Really dream pop kinda encompasses a bunch of different styles so idk, but TR/ST is really good too, albeit that's more synth pop.
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MBV is TECHNICALLY what they would call Shoe Gaze.
 
S

Steamlord

Member
Psychoward said:
Devotion is arguably their best album though?

I love them all though, I have Teen Dream and Depression Cherry on vinyl and Depression Cherry is this really nice velvet cover.

Saw them live too and they were mesmerizing, I loved how the lights synced up with 10 Mile Stereo and Levitation particularly. I've got a gif back on my laptop that I'll post once I'm home.
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10 Mile Stereo live was transcendental.

JadedWriter said:
MBV is TECHNICALLY what they would call Shoe Gaze.
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Eh, there's a lot of overlap between the two.
 
J

JadedWriter

Member
Steamlord said:
Eh, there's a lot of overlap between the two.
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Sort of depends. Mira is also what people call shoe gaze, but they definitely pull off a very different sound than MBV, even when covering one of their songs. I think I am a bit dream pop picky though as evidenced by this thread. I like more of a layered ethereal touch to the music. Though I will admit that trying to tell the genres apart is a bit of a pain in the ass.
Mira - In Theory
Mira - Green
 
S

Steamlord

Member
JadedWriter said:
Sort of depends. Mira is also what people call shoe gaze, but they definitely pull off a very different sound than MBV, even when covering one of their songs. I think I am a bit dream pop picky though as evidenced by this thread. I like more of a layered ethereal touch to the music. Though I will admit that trying to tell the genres apart is a bit of a pain in the ass.
Mira - In Theory
Mira - Green
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I mean, if MBV isn't layered and ethereal then I don't know what is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUkggdQW2xE
 
C

Cosmic Schwung

Member
I consider the terms pretty much interchangeable. Heck, shoe gaze was a phrase coined to deride some bands, and I'd bet a lot of them would have said they were dream pop if the new label hadn't stuck.
 
Y

Yazzees

Member
Cosmic Schwung said:
I consider the terms pretty much interchangeable. Heck, shoe gaze was a phrase coined to deride some bands, and I'd bet a lot of them would have said they were dream pop if the new label hadn't stuck.
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I'd say the same. Whatever distinctions that exist aren't enough that I could imagine someone asking for "dreampop" to be disappointed receiving "shoegaze" instead.

Genre nit-picking is the lowest form of music discussion anyway.
 
J

JadedWriter

Member
Cosmic Schwung said:
I consider the terms pretty much interchangeable. Heck, shoe gaze was a phrase coined to deride some bands, and I'd bet a lot of them would have said they were dream pop if the new label hadn't stuck.
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Why would they deride those groups? It takes a lot of talent to step on all those effects pedals.
Speaking of effects pedals...
Medicine - The Pink (1993)
Medicine - She Knows Everything
Yazzees said:
I'd say the same. Whatever distinctions that exist aren't enough that I could imagine someone asking for "dreampop" to be disappointed receiving "shoegaze" instead.

Genre nit-picking is the lowest form of music discussion anyway.
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"I asked for Ethereal Darkwave and got dream pop..." I seriously lump those two together.
 
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