Zoe Polanski combines ambient electronics with lo-fi indie pop and a voice that could (will) launch a thousand crushes – count me in. Kevin Press One-sentence music…… Read more “OSMR: Zoe Polanski – Violent Flowers”
Category: Dream Pop
Muldue – A Place Both Foreign and Familiar
Max Ramsden’s first release on Hush Hush Records opens with a short, evocative instrumental. Neither ambient nor minimalist, it nonetheless serves as an engaging, contemplative primer. The…… Read more “Muldue – A Place Both Foreign and Familiar”
Power Therapy – Warmth For Bad Skaters
It is difficult to overstate the influence of a small set of bands in the 1980s and 1990s spearheaded by Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine. Their…… Read more “Power Therapy – Warmth For Bad Skaters”
The Parlor – Kiku
The Parlor’s new album takes its name from the Japanese word for chrysanthemum, written 菊. Like the Albany, New York couple’s music, the name is devastatingly sweet.…… Read more “The Parlor – Kiku”
Midday Static – Dreamcatcher
After producing a trio of richly sentimental discs under the titles Kodachrome, Ektachrome and Verichrome, Dylan Boyd has emerged from his Tulsa, Oklahoma darkroom with a hypnotic…… Read more “Midday Static – Dreamcatcher”
Jen Gloeckner – Vine
Dream pop is not a tag Iowa’s Jen Gloeckner uses to describe her most recent album Vine. Her preferences include ambient, alternative and experimental, all of which…… Read more “Jen Gloeckner – Vine”