Shoegaze / Dream Pop
Listen to our playlist of songs that flirt or are in the genres dream pop and shoegaze.
Shoegaze and dream pop are two subgenres of alternative rock that are often confused and mixed. It is not easy to distinguish them. After all, some sound elements are common to both and the main artists of these styles are generally associated with both.
Some scholars of pop music consider that the elements that gave characteristics to dream pop were born in the 1960s and 1970s with works by bands like Beach Boys and Velvet Underground, and albums produced by Phil Spector, like All Things Must Pass of 1970 by George Harrison . It is understood that dream pop acquired a sound form in the early 1980s, mainly with the Scottish band Cocteau Twins. Many consider shoegaze to be a derivation of dream pop.
But, what is the difference between them? In a brief and simple way, shoegaze presents a harsher sound, in which the ethereal vocals are buried under layers of guitars, creating nebulous songs. In dream pop, there is more clarity in vocals and melodies, with soft sonorous textures that evoke dreams.
Their experiments gave an air of renewal to the aesthetics and sound structures of pop music. Their influence, over the years, contributes to the emergence of bands, which, although not labeled within these styles, flirt with their elements.
- A Place to Bury Strangers
To Fix the Gash in Your Head - Slowdive
Souvlaki Space Station - Galaxie 500
Blue Thunder - Ride
Vapour Trail - The Sundays
Here's Where the Story Ends - M83
Run Into Flower - DIIV
Under the Sun - My Bloody Valentine
Sometimes - Cocteau Twins
Heaven or Las Vegas - Deafheaven
Near - Galaxie 500
Listen, The Snow Is Falling - A Sunny Day in Glasgow
Close Chorus - Slowdive
Alison - DIIV
Doused - The Clientele
We Could Walk Together - Curve
Horror Head - The Horrors
Three Decades - Teenage Fanclub
Star Sign - M83
Don't Save Us from the Flames - My Bloody Valentine
Only Shallow - Low
Words - The Jesus and Mary Chain
Reverence - Slowdive
When the Sun Hits - Beach House
Myth - Ride
Leave Them All Behind - Ringo Deathstarr
Kaleidoscope - My Bloody Valentine
Soon - Swervedriver
Duress - The Jesus and Mary Chain
Just Like Honey - Beach Fossils
Sleep Apnea - R.E.M.
Let Me In - Deerhunter
Hazel St - DIIV
Mire (Grant's Song) - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Hyperventilation - The Cure
Plainsong - Lush
De-Luxe - Medicine
Miss Drugstore - Primal Scream
Shoot Speed/Kill Light - Yo La Tengo
Deeper into Movies - Cocteau Twins
Carolyn's Fingers - Mercury Rev
Chasing a Bee - Cocteau Twins
Cherry-Coloured Funk - Galaxie 500
Tell Me - Dinosaur Jr.
Tarpit - Pale Saints
Sight of You - The Joy Formidable
Whirring - Chromatics
Kill for love - Beach House
Gila - Spiritualized
Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space - The Clientele
Reflections After Jane