Pitchfork: 30 Best Dream Pop Albums
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https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-30-best-dream-pop-albums/
- Chart updated: 09/04/2021 21:15
- (Created: 09/04/2021 21:06).
- Chart size: 30 albums.
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M83 has made dreamier albums, and ones that are more pop. Saturdays = Youth sits at the intersection, the record that shares most of dream pop’s defining qualities: blushing, soft-focus co-ed harmonies, cocooning reverb, emotional polarities on a song-by-song basis. The similarities end there; whereas most other bands on this list meekly want to see movies of their dreams, Anthony Gonzalez breaks the bank to shoot them in HD. With the addition of powerhouse vocalist Morgan Kibby and co-producers Ken Thomas and Ewan Pearson, Gonzalez forgoes the distended, saturated shoegaze tones of his earlier, insular work for a different kind of maximalism; everything from symphonic post-rock droning to skyscraping pop is rendered with an overwhelming, hyperreal clarity.
The cover is a fake-out: “Kim & Jessie,” “Graveyard Girl,” and “Skin of the Night” aren’t John Hughes characters, relatable and realistic teenage archetypes tied to single decade’s pastel aesthetics. Saturdays = Youth is more attuned to the highly stylized sensuality of Sofia Coppola and Baz Luhrmann’s big-top operatics, vessels of romantic indulgence. The message with M83 here: Youth isn’t wasted on the young, Saturdays are wasted on the old. –Ian Cohen
The cover is a fake-out: “Kim & Jessie,” “Graveyard Girl,” and “Skin of the Night” aren’t John Hughes characters, relatable and realistic teenage archetypes tied to single decade’s pastel aesthetics. Saturdays = Youth is more attuned to the highly stylized sensuality of Sofia Coppola and Baz Luhrmann’s big-top operatics, vessels of romantic indulgence. The message with M83 here: Youth isn’t wasted on the young, Saturdays are wasted on the old. –Ian Cohen
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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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| Galaxie 500 | 2 | 7% | |
| Grouper | 2 | 7% | |
| Cocteau Twins | 2 | 7% | |
| Mazzy Star | 2 | 7% | |
| Low | 2 | 7% | |
| Beach House | 2 | 7% | |
| Mojave 3 | 1 | 3% | |
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