dream pop
Emma Anderson – formerly of Lush and Sing-Sing – generously takes us deep inside the mechanics of making her first solo album
These are the fifty albums of 2022 that have meant the most to us, alongside our compilations & archives of the year
Gloria de Oliveira and Dean Hurley’s Oceans of Time is Lana Del Rey reimagined as a Lynchian dream pop masterclass
Dean Wareham accounts for adapting under pandemic living and rebooting his songcraft upon the release of a deeply enjoyable new solo album
Jorja Chalmers’s second album Midnight Train is a confidently noirish affair that is as much dream pop as dreamscape
The regenerated Andy Bell explains the backstory to his recent solo work as well as adding insights into his parallel Ride and GLOK lives
Lisbon’s Beautify Junkyards have brought a dangerously dreamlike world to life on Cosmorama, their inviting new record for Ghost Box
Nightmares of a ruined dreamland inspire Brighton’s psychic popster Dog in the Snow on her second album, Vanishing Lands
Nathaniel Cramp, the head and the heart behind London’s long-surviving Sonic Cathedral label, shares all on fifteen years of auditory congregation
Having recently brought us the first Madder Rose LP in twenty years, Billy Coté serves-up an equally reflective and deep-sounds-mining mixtape
The synth-based tracks of Jorja Chalmers’s deep-dreaming debut Human Again are a cartography of unreal things that feel very real indeed
Glen Johnson recalls the gestation of Piano Magic’s inventive and sublime second album, upon its twentieth-anniversary vinyl reissue
Daniel O’Sullivan’s mixtape for Concrete Islands allows a further glimpse into the displaced-in-time otherly pop music of his solo musical universe
Innsbruck’s MOLLY channel their alpine environs into mountain-gaze epics on this promising full-length debut
The Blue Pine EP is dream pop loaded with Twin Peaks signifiers that floats out of the night without getting weighed down
Penelope Trappes’s second album delivers beautifully unsettling art installation dream pop while exploring interior worlds and minimal industrial zones