Tag Archives: Dream Pop

While Davye Hawk’s otherworldly and anachronistic electronic compositions seemingly cover behind such utilitarian monikers as Weird Tapes, Memory space Tapes, and Memory space Cassette, the onetime frontman for Philly indie rockers Hail Social statements to be not willfully anonymous. When Hawk was still a teenager, his compositions captured the hearing …

Minneapolis music group the Violettes, comprising singer/keyboardist Sarah Khan, singer/drummer Scott Haughawout, guitarist Tag Ilaug, and bassist John Ancell, are actually two groupings. As the Violettes, they play ethereal pop/rock and roll. However they also show up (and in the same locations) beneath the name Softshow, adding specific Eastern and …

Area of the loosely defined band of contemporary indie rock rings heavily influenced by first-generation shoegazers want My Bloody Valentine, the Jesus and Mary String, the Cocteau Twins, and Slowdive (see also Ringo Deathstarr and Asobi Seksu, amongst others), San Francisco’s Foxtail Somersault audio uncannily just like the sort of …

Reputedly named after a Ride EP track, shoegazers Sennen formed in Norwich, England in 2002. This is a installing moniker for the quartet for several reasons, and not just because Sennen’s atmospheric and multi-layered post-rock frequently nodded with their important Oxford-formed forebears. The lengthy length from Norwich towards the Cornish …