Dream Pop

They were always accused of being a poor-man's Smiths, but I've always considered The Ocean Blue's Cerulean more of a dream pop record than anything else. "When Life Was Easy," "Breezing up," "Falling Through The Ice" are the most obvious examples.

Modern dream pop:

Engineers ("One In Seven"; "Thrasher")

Citified ("Weddings"; "March Through Mayday"; "There's A Way To Make You Try")

The Clientele?

Dreampop seems to mean so many different things to different people.

Dreampop seems to mean so many different things to different people.

You said it.

Does Hood count? Destroy All Dreamers, epic45, Lanterna, Manual, Ulrich Schnauss ...

I like when it's dreamy because of some musical "talent" (for lack of a better word I promise!) rather than dreamy because it's sloppy and drained in grungy delay. Does that mean I'm confined to the obvious picks, like Cocteau Twins?

it does not get significantly dreampoppier than Ariel Pink, in my estimation...

It seems to be this catch-all term that means, like... girly but not twee, shoegazey without the noize or the 60s affectations... though it also seems to be applied to stuff that's too electronicky to be shoegaze or nu-gaze. I'm still confused by people who actually try to retroactively apply some kind of genre statement to Shoegaze (I read somewhere recently a "history" of shoegazing trying to propose that My Bloody Valentine were not a seminal shoegaze band, that the first shoegaze band was Ride. Um, what?)

also not mentioned but worth contemplating is hex. haven't heard that album in years but i rembember it fondly.

July Skies newest one. Sounds a bit like Manual in some spots.

charmparticles = dream pop luv

Sorry for the thread necromancy, but thought the self-titled album by sister duo 2:54 deserved more attention than a blurb in the faves of 2012 thread, but perhaps less than its own thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWbL8uXonQ8

http://foxesinfiction.bandcamp.com/album/ontario-gothic

Moka was asking about this record. I worked on it. I love the record so much I basically gave them a standing offer to sit in at a gig whenever they wanted. I'm not at all into modern dream-pop or this style of production usually, but something about the stateliness and simplicity of this guy's songs destroys me. It's on Orchid Tapes which means it's pwyc on Bandcamp and 500 copies pressed (and it sold out quick).

oh hey, did not know that my dude beau (fantastic engineer who mixed my first LP) played on this.

This is really nice, thanks!

Oh, so that's why there's so little information about the release! They're fantastic, I just checked and the album is on Spotify so I'll be giving it a spin later this night. Their music reminds me of Atlas Sound at certain points so it's definitely the sort of modern 'dream pop' that's up my alley.

Swung from the Branches (2010) was gorgeous, although they could have trimmed many of the ambiance of the first half and I find it odd that one of my favorite tracks by them, 'Flashing lights have ended now', only appears as a bonus track.

The new one seems like it's only 8 tracks long so it should definitely be more concise than the past album. Will report back.

Already took a first listen and I'm loving it. My favorite song was Altars because I'm a sucker for women voices in dream pop, makes me wish he added a female singer as a permanent band member. March 2011, Shadow Song and the title track are great. Nice work on those ones Owen! Specially in Shadow Song, love the string crescendos throughout the track.

Thx. My favourite part is the Maurice Deebank-y solo on Into The Fields, gets me every time.

Ha, I hadn't even listened to that one. I had Spotify on shuffle by accident and it sent Fields and V079 to the bottom. Is that you as well? I thought Hildebrand was using some synths at first.

Nope it's all Warren

http://fastnbulbous.com/lucky-17/#dream

Brilliant, thanks dude!

You missed Star Tropics:
https://star-tropics.bandcamp.com/album/lost-world