dream pop
Track: Chloe Mae’s entrancing new single ‘Falling’ is a delicately hazy, psych-folk dream
Rising Brisbane vocalist Chloe Mae has been enchanting listeners with her ethereal sound since the release of breakout single Flowers last year. Blending beautifully blooming, serenading vocals with melodic elements of psych-folk, Chloe’s delicate style returns with the release of new track Falling (produced by Aaron Shanahan – Miami Horror, Sunday) out now. Emanating with …
Premiere: Melbourne indie popsters Telescreen return with another widescreen, shimmering delight ‘Onward (To You)’.
‘Onward (To You)’ has a bittersweet melancholic thread that runs through the celestial synth sounds, evidence that Melbourne’s Telescreen is a massive shining star in the indie pop firmament. There is without doubt an eighties sparkle with the washes of synths that bubble and sweep across the wide horizons of this band’s scope. Backseat Mafia …
Track: Auckland’s Silk Cut unveil an immersive shoegaze dream pop debut in ‘Getting In Close’ and announce new EP
Andrew Thorne has graced these pages under a few different guises. He first came to my attention in Modern Chair– a collaboration between him and another veteran of the NZ music scene, Wayne Bell. Modern Chair can best be described (and indeed have been) – as dirty, stomping squalls of pure joy laced with a …
Track: Cardiff’s Inland Murmur release the delicate and fragile ‘Waterline’
The intricate layers and wistful air of ‘Waterline’ creates a delicately organic piece of music that is ethereal and dreamy. Created by Cardiff band Inland Murmur, the result is something that captures the essence of vulnerability and, indeed, anxiety that defines our current times. The band says the single was the product of the early …
News: The divine French duo Overland Inn sign to False Peak Records, announce new album ‘Proxima’ and release the shimmering single ‘Les Mauvais Jours’
French duo Overland Inn, purveyors of the sweetest electric dream pop laced with ethereal bubbling textures, have announced their signing to the enigmatic Brisbane label False Peak Records and will be releasing new material soon in the way of an album entitled ‘Proxima’. Overland Inn have no boundaries, physical or aural. They are now based …
Track: Brisbane’s sparkling Cheap Date unveil a dreamy poppy delight ‘Woman to You’, and announce launch gig.
Proving itself yet again to be a hotspot for unbounded talent of the shoegaze/dream pop variety, Brisbane has produced another dreamy dream pop delight in the band Cheap Date, whose new single ‘Woman to You’ is a gloriously shimmering immersive slice of heaven. Punctuated by crisp dappling guitars and wry, humourous lyrics, singer Lara Dee’s …
Track: Sydney’s Fabels release the dreamy mesmerising reverie of single ‘Waiting’ in anticipation of their new album ‘Minds’
Sydney band Fabels have just released an enormously immersive and atmospheric single ‘Waiting’ ahead of their new album ‘Minds’ to be released on 10 September 2021. ‘Waiting’ is enigmatic, dreamy and ambient: sparse repeated lines are cloaked in mystery and soaked in reverb and an ethereal aura. There is an icy, chilling air to the …
Track: New Zealand’s Nik Brinkman’s new single ‘Sugarland’ is a delicious shimmering wonder.
With a theme running to the sweeter side, New Zealand’s Nik Brinkman follows up ‘Candy’, premiered by us back in June with another languid, hazy delight, ‘Sugarland’. The crystalline guitars form a crisp, crunchy background to the dreamy haze of the song with its recurring riffs and floaty atmosphere. Brinkman’s magical vocals are evocative and …
Track: Perth dreamy dream pop duo The Money War unveil the sparkling and melancholy delight ‘Miles Away’.
Gliding out of the world’s most remote city, Perth, duo The Money War (Carmen and Dylan Ollivierre) have today released the ethereal and dreamy track ‘Miles Away’. This is a coasting, sparkling and very delicious slice of melancholy, punctuated by the most languid and evocative breathy saxophones and subtle horns, and gilded by reflective, immersive …
Track: The enigmatic Us and I reveal dreamy and delicate new single ‘Fragile’ and announce debut EP ‘Loveless’ for 27 August 2021
Bangalore’s Us and I have unveiled a deliciously chill and ethereal debut single ‘Fragile’ and announced the release of their debut EP ‘Loveless’ for 27 August 2021. ‘Fragile’ matches a muscular synth riff with dreamy, ethereal vocals, mixing an M83 vibrant synth spine with distant haunting vocals that float across the firmament. There’s an eighties …