Dream Pop

Popular dream pop albums in the last year.

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Album • May 27 / 2024
Dream Pop Ethereal Wave Slacker Rock
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X's
Album • Jul 12 / 2024
Dream Pop Slowcore
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The lights are low, the radio’s playing the soft hits of yesteryear, and Greg Gonzalez has just been struck by a cartoon vixen in a Marvel comic from the early ’90s—that look on her face reminds him of someone. “I need that sweet life with its decadent ways,” sighs the lead singer of TikTok’s biggest dream-pop band on the woozy “Silver Sable,” a Cigarettes After Sex mission statement if there ever was one. Gonzalez formed the band in 2013, though he’d written songs under the evocative moniker since 2008: sultry songs that float along in a post-coital haze in the vein of ’90s bands like Mazzy Star or Cowboy Junkies, the kind of thing you play in headphones to feel like the main character in the noir film of your life. The band’s third full-length album, *X’s*, plays out like a dream you might have after a few hours of scrolling Tumblr. The title track is a pleasant blur of cinnamon and leopard print, candlelight and birthday cake, with a nod to Marilyn Monroe’s last photo shoot to fully set the mood, all sung like a horny lullaby as is Gonzalez’s trademark. “Hot” is all pink lemonade and backyard pools, while “Dark Vacay” reads like Eve Babitz at the Chateau: sleeping on the cool tile of the bathroom floor, drinking expensive bordeaux and listening to old voicemails. And on lead single “Tejano Blue,” El Paso native Gonzalez is the only guy at the beach in leather pants. The mood hardly deviates from the usual slow burn (though the muted disco pulse of “Holding you, Holding me” passes for upbeat in the Cigs’ catalog), but who needs bangers when you can wallow instead?

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Album • Sep 06 / 2024
Slowcore Dream Pop Ambient Pop
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Album • Nov 15 / 2024
Dream Pop Bedroom Pop
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Album • Oct 04 / 2024
Dream Pop Alternative Dance
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Album • Apr 25 / 2025
Dream Pop Indie Folk
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Album • May 03 / 2024
Bedroom Pop Singer-Songwriter Dream Pop
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Album • Feb 28 / 2025
Neo-Psychedelia Dream Pop
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Album • Apr 25 / 2025
Dream Pop Ambient Pop Ethereal Wave
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The Irish musician wrote her self-released debut album, 2019’s dreamy, reverb-drenched *All My People*, while living in Dublin and pining for her hometown of Connemara on Ireland’s Atlantic coast. Writing its follow-up, Maria Somerville returned to the rural landscapes of her youth, drawing inspiration from its wild terrain, its weather patterns and various bodies of water, and the Irish folk traditions still cherished by the locals. Between a pair of artist residencies on the nearby island of Inis Oírr, long conversations with her fisherman father, and home recording sessions with a small crew of new collaborators (Henry Earnest, Finn Carraher McDonald, Roisin Berkeley) emerged the ethereal songs of *Luster*, Somerville’s sophomore album and her 4AD debut. Wistful dream-pop numbers like “Garden” and “Projections” channel the woozy romance of Grouper, Mazzy Star, or Cocteau Twins, while evoking Somerville’s misty, windswept surroundings.

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EP • Jun 07 / 2024
Dream Pop Chillwave
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Album • Oct 18 / 2024
Dream Pop Post-Rock
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Album • May 03 / 2024
Psychedelic Folk Dream Pop Indietronica
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Album • Sep 13 / 2024
Dream Pop
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Album • May 03 / 2024
Shoegaze Dream Pop
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Album • Sep 13 / 2024
Indie Pop Dream Pop
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Album • Apr 04 / 2025
Shoegaze Dream Pop
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Album • May 02 / 2024
Dream Pop
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Album • Jul 09 / 2024
Dream Pop
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Album • Jul 26 / 2024
Dream Pop Bedroom Pop
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Album • Feb 28 / 2025
Dream Pop
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Album • Sep 20 / 2024
Dream Pop
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Album • Sep 20 / 2024
Indie Pop Indie Rock Dream Pop
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EP • Nov 22 / 2024
Dream Pop Slacker Rock
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EP • Apr 25 / 2025
Shoegaze Dream Pop
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Album • Nov 01 / 2024
Dream Pop Neo-Psychedelia Indie Rock
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Album • Feb 07 / 2025
Post-Punk Dream Pop
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Album • Feb 05 / 2025
Dream Pop Shoegaze Indie Rock
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EP • Feb 14 / 2025
Dream Pop Noise Pop
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Album • Nov 01 / 2024
Dream Pop
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Album • Dec 18 / 2024
Shoegaze Dream Pop
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Album • Jun 21 / 2024
Dream Pop Indie Pop Art Pop
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Album • Apr 18 / 2025
Dream Pop Indietronica Glitch Pop
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EP • Nov 01 / 2024
Dream Pop
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Album • Jan 24 / 2025
Dream Pop Bedroom Pop
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Album • Jul 26 / 2024
Dream Pop Shoegaze Post-Rock
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Album • Jul 10 / 2024
Dream Pop Bedroom Pop
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Album • Jul 19 / 2024
Dream Pop Ambient Pop
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Album • Apr 25 / 2025
Dream Pop
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Album • Nov 15 / 2024
Shoegaze Post-Metal Dream Pop
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Album • Feb 07 / 2025
Dream Pop Post-Punk Revival
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Album • May 10 / 2024
Indie Rock Dream Pop
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Album • Sep 20 / 2024
Shoegaze Dream Pop Noise Pop
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EP • Feb 12 / 2025
Shoegaze Dream Pop
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Album • May 17 / 2024
Dream Pop Shoegaze
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EP • May 03 / 2024
Dream Pop Indie Pop
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Album • Mar 07 / 2025
Dream Pop Jangle Pop
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Album • Dec 13 / 2024
Dream Pop Indie Pop
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Album • Mar 14 / 2025
Dream Pop Slowcore
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Album • Sep 06 / 2024
Dream Pop Indie Pop