dream pop

Pipes + Sky return with a glittery new dream-pop jam, produced by Chicago's Christian Rich (who also produced Vince Staples' great new single).

California "kaleidoscopic pop" duo Bouquet follow up one of the most dreamily beautiful tracks of the year with their haunting debut EP, In A Dream. From the warm and gently woozy opening track, to the jaunty/slightly creepy longing of "Come To Your House", the gorgeous, bittersweet melancholy of "Over the Mountains", and the lilting, romantic dream pop perfection o

Greece's Keep Shelly in Athens introduce the wistful, breathy sighs of new singer Myrtha with a softly shimmering new Balearic-pop gem: smoldering new single "Fractals" evokes the kind of hopeful, dreamy melancholy and vague nostalgia the group has mastered in the time since we first met back in the day, and it's a promising preview of the wealth of lovely new material the duo are set t

Yumi Zouma came out of nowhere early this year with an EP of softly shimmering, twilit dream-disco that was so pitch-perfect (right down to the cover art; some might even suggest it was 'custom-built' for us) that it almost felt like it was destined to be a fluke, a debut that was surely the result of some kind of serendipitous long-distance magic that a young group has trouble ever recapturing.

Yumi Zouma's excellent debut EP is officially out tomorrow on Cascine (if you haven't been following along, you can stream the whole thing after the jump), and to commemorate the occasion, like-minded dream pop mastermind Wild Nothing offers up his own hypnotic, gently pulsing take on the group's soft-disco-funk EP opener/mood-setter, "A Long Walk Home For Parted Lovers". Listen below,

Washington D.C.'s GEMS follow up their gorgeous recent singles "Medusa" + "Ephemera" with a floating shadow-pop take on a '90s MTV staple, complete with some faithfully re-created cover art. Regardless of how you feel about the original in 2014, I think you'll find that GEMS' dramatic, dreamily atmospheric version makes perfect sense...

"Laura is Fading" is the dreamlike first single from Tokyo's Jesse Ruins' debut LP A Film, out May 21 via Lefse Records.

Prior to gracing our state for SXSW in March, Brighton's Fear of Men will release the "reverse chronological singles collection" Early Fragments, compiling the very nearly perfect run of singles + b-sides that the band has released on various labels over the last year and a half or so...

Beautifully shot official video for "Mosaic," the excellent single from one of the best new bands of 2012, London/Brighton's Fear of Men. Shot in a freezing cold church, and directed by Williams & Tardo, with Fear of Men. The limited Mosaic 7" single is out now...

Here's the dreamy, lovesick a-side from the new single by ex-Sleep ∞ Over members Christa Palazzolo + Sarah Brown, aka Austin's Boy Friend. The Lovedropper 7" drops May 16 on Hell, Yes! Limited to 1000 copies, with the first 300 coming on orange vinyl...