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Topic: Shoegaze & Dream Pop Posted: November 10 2013 at 13:11
Any fans of slow melancholic music here?
I personally adore a lot shoegaze and dream pop music (those genres are very similar and often confused, although shoegaze must have a lot of noisy distorted guitar walls of sound, whilst it's not necessary for a dream pop band). I quite like its dreamy and spacey psychedelic atmosphere and laid-back vocals.
The first time I've heard dream pop it was Julee Cruise singing in 'Twin Peaks' (I was 12 when I was watching it for the first time), and recently, let's say in the last year and a half, I discovered a lot of great dream pop and shoegaze bands, such as Slowdive, Ride and Cocteau Twins.
A bunch of dream pop and shoegaze bands can be found on the archives, namely Dead Can Dance (ethereal wave/dream pop), Mew (post-progressive/shoegaze), No-Man (dream pop/post-rock/dance), Paatos (post-progressive/dream pop) and the cluster of blackgaze bands (Alcest, Amesoeurs, Heretoir, Cold Body Radiation).
It would be interesting to discuss dream pop here, if there are any fans of it.
Edited by ole-the-first - November 10 2013 at 13:21
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Posted: November 10 2013 at 13:34
I don't know much about this scene (have one each by MBV, Ride and Cranes and two DCD). I somehow managed to pick up the debut full-length Pipe Dreams by Whirr earlier this year, and I just got their new Around EP. Definitely shoegaze, and quite good. Very similar to MBV, with the "in the background" style female vocals. I like it quite a bit.
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Posted: November 10 2013 at 14:27
I loved Mercury Rev in their early days, not so much later on. I like Flaming Lips quite a bit too. Neither is really quintessential dream pop/shoegaze (as you've made clear). In its purest form, those genres aren't really my thing. Many bands like them do incorporate elements of those styles, though, and I do like some of them. One that wasn't listed that I really love is the Brian Jonestown Massacre. Their debut album "Methodrone" is a fantastic shoegaze-like album, but the band as a whole, over their many albums, has covered a lot of stylistic ground.
voted: Flaming Lips
Edited by HolyMoly - November 10 2013 at 14:27
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Posted: November 10 2013 at 17:45
I don't know many of these very well. But I have been a fan of the Cocteaus for a long time. I prefer their early gothic stuff rather than later ethereal stuff. But in the end them and This Mortal Coil are my tea of cup but I also like Dead Can Dance.
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Posted: November 10 2013 at 20:38
I got really into Mew and tried out a mixture of bands labelled 'Shoegaze' and 'Dream Pop' on RYM. The dream pop bands won out heavily and that's how I got into Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dance. But Mew still tops them both by a long shot.
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