Pitchfork: 30 Best Dream Pop Albums
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- Chart updated: 09/04/2021 21:15
- (Created: 09/04/2021 21:06).
- Chart size: 30 albums.
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Low’s 1994 debut found them extending the hazy, ethereal guitar-pop of Galaxie 500, aided in part by the reverb-heavy production of Kramer. By the time they released Things We Lost in the Fire, they’d figured out how to craft stargazing dreaminess with the simplest of ingredients and nothing extra. Their minimalist bent had been refined to a point as fine as an acupuncture needle, where every note in their music felt like it came from great emotion. On Fire, a couple of guitar notes, a cymbal brush, and the heavenly harmonies of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker were all Low needed to transport you to another world, and the ultra-clean and dry recording by Steve Albini heightened the effect. –Mark Richardson
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2001
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It takes courage for a band to play as quietly as Low do on I Could Live in Hope, their debut album. Mimi Parker brushes her drums as if fearful of waking a sleeping child, John Nichols’ trebly basslines are sparse to the point of abstraction, and Alan Sparhawk’s skeletal guitar suggests the gaseous atmosphere of Brian Eno’s ambient works, set off by vocal melodies of a powerful, understated economy. The effect urges leaning in, paying attention, but Low don’t want to seduce you; they want to unnerve you. I Could Live in Hope inhabits a world of disquiet, like the lingering malaise of a bad dream, where a line as seemingly innocuous as “She used to let me cut her hair” feels ridden with shame and discomfort. Dream pop records often come steeped in instrumental flourishes and pillowy effects; on I Could Live in Hope, Low prove that small gestures can be transformative, too. –Ben Cardew
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1994
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Pitchfork: 30 Best Dream Pop Albums composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1970s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1980s | 5 | 17% | |
| 1990s | 8 | 27% | |
| 2000s | 10 | 33% | |
| 2010s | 7 | 23% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Mazzy Star | 2 | 7% | |
| Low | 2 | 7% | |
| Beach House | 2 | 7% | |
| Galaxie 500 | 2 | 7% | |
| Grouper | 2 | 7% | |
| Cocteau Twins | 2 | 7% | |
| Chromatics | 1 | 3% | |
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