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.
- Cocteau Twins
Carolyn's Fingers - DIIV
Doused - M83
Don't Save Us from the Flames - The Jesus and Mary Chain
Reverence - Curve
Faît Accompli - My Bloody Valentine
Sometimes - Primal Scream
Shoot Speed/Kill Light - The Jesus and Mary Chain
Just Like Honey - Yo La Tengo
Deeper into Movies - M83
Run Into Flower - Cocteau Twins
Heaven or Las Vegas - A Sunny Day in Glasgow
Close Chorus - Spiritualized
Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space - The Sundays
Here's Where the Story Ends - R.E.M.
Let Me In - A Place to Bury Strangers
To Fix the Gash in Your Head - Mercury Rev
Chasing a Bee - Dinosaur Jr.
Tarpit - Teenage Fanclub
Star Sign - The Clientele
Reflections After Jane - Ringo Deathstarr
Kaleidoscope - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Hyperventilation - Swervedriver
Duress - Ride
Leave Them All Behind - Deerhunter
Hazel St - Cocteau Twins
Cherry-Coloured Funk - The Joy Formidable
Whirring - Slowdive
Alison - Chromatics
Kill for love - A Sunny Day in Glasgow
Boys Turn Into Girls (Initiation Rites) - DIIV
Under the Sun - Slowdive
When the Sun Hits - Beach House
Myth - The Verve
Star Sail - Yo La Tengo
Nowhere Near - Grouper
When We Fall - The Horrors
Three Decades - The Cure
Plainsong - My Bloody Valentine
Soon - Curve
Horror Head - Lush
De-Luxe - DIIV
Mire (Grant's Song) - Beach Fossils
Sleep Apnea - Galaxie 500
Tell Me - Low
Words - The Clientele
We Could Walk Together - Mazzy Star
Fade Into You - Deafheaven
Near - Galaxie 500
Listen, The Snow Is Falling - My Bloody Valentine
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