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  • The album's pretty great, the kind of dreampop that

    brooklynvegan brooklynvegan 2010

  • With David Essex currently charming the divorcees down Walford way, now is probably as good a time as any to cover his supremely weird 1973 glam-funk hit Rock On in a voguish lo-fi dreampop style.

    This week's new singles 2011

  • Consider the aspirations of CocoRosie's mystical hip-hop/dreampop in this stunning pink light.

    S.X. Rosenstock: CocoRosie Turns It On: Passion Is the Pull of Your Past S.X. Rosenstock 2010

  • Consider the aspirations of CocoRosie's mystical hip-hop/dreampop in this stunning pink light.

    S.X. Rosenstock: CocoRosie Turns It On: Passion Is the Pull of Your Past S.X. Rosenstock 2010

  • Consider the aspirations of CocoRosie's mystical hip-hop/dreampop in this stunning pink light.

    S.X. Rosenstock: CocoRosie Turns It On: Passion Is the Pull of Your Past S.X. Rosenstock 2010

  • Consider the aspirations of CocoRosie's mystical hip-hop/dreampop in this stunning pink light.

    S.X. Rosenstock: CocoRosie Turns It On: Passion Is the Pull of Your Past S.X. Rosenstock 2010

  • Having started band life as Jesus & Mary Chain-influenced noise-poppers, they shifted to synth-driven dreampop a la Pet Shop Boys and now seem on the march again, their latest hinting at dub and a heavier commitment to bass guitar and loops beneath the usual shimmering cool of Duncansson's reverbed vocals and lyrics that touch on youth culture and politics.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Chris Young 2011

  • High Places sound far more like eccentric New Wave revivalists than the introspective dreampop ethnophiles I was anticipating, but they do it so well that I don't care.

    Brainwashed 2010

  • Describing themselves as "dreampop folk-gaze", Foxx Bandits are so new to the world that they're yet to play their first live show (more on that later).

    The Line Of Best Fit Rich Thane 2010

  • Take a hearty stock of of rhythm (as in TWO rhythm sections), add a liberal dose of dreampop-postrock guitar (a la Mogwai or Three Mile Pilot), drizzle in a tincture of emocore (of the ethereal harmony variety) and voila! you've got the formula for what ails ya.

    The Bay Bridged - San Francisco Bay Area Indie Music Ben Van Houten 2010

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