Genre

Dream Pop

Dream Pop on LoudQuietLoud: more than 300 artists, including Beach House, Clairo and Cigarettes After Sex. It runs alongside chillwave, bedroom pop and shoegaze.

Beach House

dream pop · indie pop · indie

M83

electronic · shoegaze · post-rock

Album art: Mitski, Nothing's About to Happen to Me

Mitski

indie rock · indie · indie pop

Album art: Clairo, Charm

Clairo

bedroom pop · indie pop · dream pop

Cover of X’s by Cigarettes After Sex

Cigarettes After Sex

dream pop · shoegaze · slowcore

Mazzy Star

dream pop · shoegaze · female vocalists

Album art: beabadoobee, Pylon

beabadoobee

indie pop · indie rock · bedroom pop

Cocteau Twins

dream pop · shoegaze · post-punk

Slowdive

shoegaze · dream pop · ambient

Current Joys

indie · indie pop · indie rock

Yo La Tengo

indie rock · indie · alternative

Blonde Redhead

indie · indie rock · alternative

Caribou

electronic · experimental · indie

Wolf Alice

indie rock · indie · british

Cover of Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? by Deerhunter

Deerhunter

shoegaze · experimental · psychedelic

Crumb

dream pop · indie rock · psychedelic pop

Crumb

dream pop · indie rock · psychedelic pop

Japanese Breakfast

dream pop · indie pop · indie rock

Elbow

indie · alternative · indie rock

Cuco

dream pop · experimental · indie pop

Washed Out

chillwave · electronic · lo-fi

Alvvays

dream pop · indie pop · indie

The Radio Dept.

shoegaze · indie · swedish

Beach Fossils

lo-fi · indie · surf rock

Broadcast

electronic · indie · indie pop

First Aid Kit

folk · swedish · indie

Low

slowcore · indie rock · post-rock

Dean Blunt

experimental · lo-fi · avant-garde

Tennis

indie pop · lo-fi · indie

Cover of Everything Was Beautiful by Spiritualized

Spiritualized

space rock · shoegaze · psychedelic

Album art: Slow Pulp, Melodie

Slow Pulp

dream pop · shoegaze · indie pop

Real Estate

lo-fi · indie · surf rock

Lush

shoegaze · dream pop · britpop

Sweet Trip

shoegaze · idm · electronic

DIIV

shoegaze · dream pop · lo-fi

Soccer Mommy

indie pop · indie · indie rock

Wild Nothing

dream pop · shoegaze · indie pop

Charlotte Gainsbourg

french · female vocalists · indie

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

shoegaze · indie pop · dream pop

Belly

alternative · female vocalists · indie

Melody's Echo Chamber

dream pop · psychedelic · psychedelic rock

Pale Saints

shoegaze · dream pop · 4ad

Galaxie 500

shoegaze · dream pop · slowcore

Au Revoir Simone

indie pop · female vocalists · indie

Mojave 3

dream pop · shoegaze · folk

Mercury Rev

dream pop · indie rock · indie

Candy Claws

dream pop · shoegaze · psychedelic

The Clientele

indie pop · dream pop · indie

Connan Mockasin

psychedelic · experimental · psychedelic pop

Atlas Sound

shoegaze · experimental · psychedelic

Turnover

pop punk · emo · dream pop

Asobi Seksu

shoegaze · dream pop · indie

Cherry Glazerr

indie · indie rock · female vocalists

Jay Som

dream pop · shoegaze · indie pop

Widowspeak

dream pop · shoegaze · indie rock

Tamaryn

shoegaze · dream pop · experimental

Azure Ray

female vocalists · indie · folk

This Mortal Coil

ethereal · ambient · gothic

Felt

post-punk · indie pop · hip-hop

Craft Spells

dream pop · indie pop · indie

Album art: The Durutti Column, Renascent

The Durutti Column

post-punk · experimental · instrumental

Drop Nineteens

shoegaze · dream pop · indie rock

Empress Of

synthpop · dream pop · electropop

Blackbird Blackbird

chillwave · electronic · glo-fi

Dan Croll

indie pop · indie · electronic

Stina Nordenstam

female vocalists · swedish · singer-songwriter

Ivy

indie · female vocalists · indie pop

School of Seven Bells

shoegaze · dream pop · electronic

Flower Face

dream pop · indie · folk

Blondshell

indie rock · indie · dream pop

Club 8

swedish · indie pop · indie

Helvetia

lo-fi · indie rock · post-rock

Chapterhouse

shoegaze · dream pop · indie

Album art: feeble little horse, bitknot

feeble little horse

shoegaze · noise pop · indie rock

Autolux

shoegaze · indie · indie rock

Julianna Barwick

ambient · experimental · dream pop

Bowery Electric

shoegaze · trip-hop · post-rock

Album art: Hovvdy, Big World

Hovvdy

lo-fi · slowcore · shoegaze

Sunflower Bean

indie rock · psychedelic rock · psychedelic

The Blue Nile

dream pop · scottish · alternative

Baxter Dury

indie rock · singer-songwriter · indie

Winter

doom metal · death metal · death doom metal

Winter

doom metal · death metal · death doom metal

Hazel English

dream pop · indie pop · female vocalists

Barrie

dream pop · indie pop · indie

Laurel Halo

electronic · experimental · witch house

Blouse

dream pop · shoegaze · indie

Blouse

dream pop · shoegaze · indie

Blue Hawaii

dream pop · chillwave · lo-fi

Album art: Dehd, Blue Skies

Dehd

indie rock · post-punk · garage rock

The Boo Radleys

shoegaze · britpop · indie

Fazerdaze

dream pop · shoegaze · indie

Swirlies

shoegaze · dream pop · lo-fi

Album art: Chanel Beads, Your Day Will Come

Chanel Beads

experimental · dream pop · indie pop

Album art: Jim James, Wowed Out

Jim James

folk · indie · dream pop

Cover of Star Tiger Star Ariel by Delays

Delays

indie · britpop · indie rock

Radio

On public radio, last 30 days

Last 30 days · via public radio playlists

Public radio airplay for Dream Pop artists, last 30 days
Rank	Album	Stations	Days on chart	Spins
1	Wowed Out Jim James KCRW, KRCL, KUTX, The Current · 22 days on chart	KCRW, KRCL, KUTX, The Current	22	121 spins
2	Big World Hovvdy KCRW, KEXP, KRCL, KUTX · 2 days on chart	KCRW, KEXP, KRCL, KUTX	2	8 spins
3	Pylon beabadoobee KEXP, The Current, WXPN · 13 days on chart	KEXP, The Current, WXPN	13	58 spins
4	Melodie Slow Pulp KEXP, KRCL, The Current · 1 day on chart	KEXP, KRCL, The Current	1	3 spins
5	Nothing's About to Happen to Me Mitski KUTX, The Current, WXPN · 1 day on chart	KUTX, The Current, WXPN	1	3 spins
6	bitknot feeble little horse KUTX, The Current · 5 days on chart	KUTX, The Current	5	18 spins

Press

Recently reviewed

LatestPitchforkAug 28, 2026

Wowed Out (opens in new tab)

The My Morning Jacket frontman sounds graceful and unburdened on his latest solo album.

PitchforkAug 20, 2026
Big World (opens in new tab)
Reflecting candidly on aging, forgiveness, and self-improvement, the indie-pop duo returns with a charming new album that takes the world in stride.
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Beats Per MinuteAug 12, 2026
Album Review: The Durutti Column – Renascent (opens in new tab)
If you are a close follower of modern music, the name of Vini Reilly’s longstanding project The Durutti Column should be lingering there somewhere as something special, even if it is only for one of…
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Aquarium DrunkardAug 10, 2026
The Durutti Column :: Renascent (opens in new tab)
In Ocean of Sound , David Toop describes ambient music as being more about a smell than a sound.
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PitchforkJul 30, 2026
Renascent (opens in new tab)
Long in the works, Vini Reilly’s first album in 16 years distills minimalism, romanticism, and ambient into a sort of universal music.
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Beats Per MinuteJul 14, 2026
Album Review: Chanel Beads – Your Day Will Come (opens in new tab)
The title of Chanel Beads’ second record, Your Day Will Come, which is also the namesake of their debut, doesn’t quite announce itself.
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New NoiseJun 9, 2026
Album Review: Turnover – Down On Earth (opens in new tab)
I’ve long been a fan of Virginia’s Turnover.
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Labels

Labels in this genre

Captured Tracks

Home to DIIV, Wild Nothing & Widowspeak

Audiotree Music

Home to Japanese Breakfast, Cuco & Turnover

Bella Union

Home to Beach House, Cocteau Twins & Wild Nothing

Partisan Records

Home to Cigarettes After Sex, Mercury Rev & Blondshell

4AD

Home to Cocteau Twins, Lush & Pale Saints

Dead Oceans

Home to Slowdive, Japanese Breakfast & Julianna Barwick

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