dream pop

Malmö, Sweden group Death and Vanilla share the haunted opening track from their forthcoming LP Are You A Dreamer?, premiering here today with our highest recommendation for fans of Mazzy Star, Broadcast, and Twin Peaks. "A Flaw in the Iris" is a shadowy, softly twinkling late night pop-noir apparition that the group calls "the perfect soundtrack for driving at night in the middle o

Quebecois artist Josianne Boivin aka MUNYA continues to captivate and delight with her sweet, gently psychedelic dream-pop on new single "Benjamin", which happens to be her first track sung in both English and French, making it all the more charming...

We've been entranced for weeks by the title track from Galway, Ireland artist Maria Somerville's forthcoming self-released debut LP All My People, an eerie, vaguely foreboding lullaby that Maria says was influenced as much by experimental, ambient, and club music as it was by traditional Irish folk ballads...

Toronto's Linnea Siggelkow aka Ellis shares the prismatic video for one of the emotional highlights from her lovely 2018 debut EP The Fuzz, soon to get a much-deserved, proper vinyl release via Fat Possum. Video directed by Andy Friesen + Linnea Siggelkow. Watch below, look out for Ellis down in Austin at SXSW in March, and pre-order the record on limited coke bottle green vinyl here.

New Zealand group French For Rabbits share their lovely and poignant new single, taken from their forthcoming LP, out early next year via our friends at Muscle Beach Records. "I wanted to make you feel as hollow as I felt, I wanted to make you feel as sorry as hell", sighs a heartbroken Brooke Singer, her dreamy voice softening the cutting lament with a serene, wintry wistfulness for th

Saguenay, Quebec's Josianne Boivin aka MUNYA continues to regale us with her endlessly charming and dreamy "new synth folk" on "If I'm Gone Tomorrow (It's Because of Aliens)", her first release sung in English. The song's title was inspired by Josie's lifelong fear of aliens -- “Independence Day really messed me up as a child,” she says -- and it's a disarmingly sweet breakup s

Saguenay, Quebec's Josianne Boivin, aka MUNYA, follows up her absolutely perfect North Hatley mini-EP with another, perhaps even more enchanting 3-song EP, coming very soon on Luminelle Recordings. Premiered this morning by Stereogum, exquisite lead single "Hotel Delmano" is a blissfully transportive dream-pop escape inspired by an actual dream...

Shout out Łukasz for the heads up on this twinkling, '80s tinged soft-focus synth-pop dream from Warsaw, Poland's agus. Watch agus brush her teeth on the beach in the gauzy video for her debut single "piasek" below + download the song here...

Montreal ambient dream-pop duo Alexia Avina + Nick Schofield -- aka Best Fern -- gently ease us into the weekend with the video for their exquisite new single. If you enjoyed the duo's soothing a-ha cover or Avina's beautiful recent solo record, you'll definitely want to take a moment to bask in the cozy, soft-lit warmth of "I Know You Know" and its dreamily gauzy accompanying visuals,

Austin's Sun June call their beautiful debut LP Years a "we’ve-been-broken-up-a-long-time" record, and the video for their new single "Young" couldn't possibly be a more perfect or lovely intro to the band's dreamily bittersweet "regret pop"...