 | | Dan Snaith's early recordings as Manitoba underlined his status among the chattering electronic classes as one of the brightest talents to emerge during the early 2000s. |
 | | The Portland-based duo Helio Sequence is comprised of vocalist/guitarist Brandon Summers and keyboardist/drummer Benjamin Weikel. |
 | | Spawned from the urge to do something apart from his post-rock band Fridge, Kieran Hebden's Four Tet project balances organic and programmed sounds. |
 | | Austin, Texas shoegaze/dream pop group Should were formed in the early '90s by brothers Marc and Eric Ostermeier, and Tanya Maus. |
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 | | Initially known as a cryptic, small-caps only electro-pop project, ceo was revealed to be Eric Berglund, one half of Sweden’s the Tough Alliance and co-owner of the label Sincerely Yours, which included Memory Tapes, jj, Air France, and the Honeydrips among its roster. |
 | | The Sanctuaries were formed in 2010 when friends singer/guitarist David Stern and drummer Brian Indig solidified a set of upbeat pop songs after playing together in various combinations for several years at Skidmore College. |
 | | Dayton, OH-based dream pop quartet the Lab Partners formed in 1998 -- singer/guitarist Mike Smith and drummer Matt Schulz previously teamed in Honeyburn, while guitarist Kevin Parrett previously tenured with Ten O'Clock Scholar. |
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 | | Ex-Stars touring guitarist Stephen Ramsay founded space rock outfit Young Galaxy with girlfriend Catherine McCandless. |
 | | The Scandinavian experimental group This Empty Flow never achieved the success of their dream pop/space rock peers. |
 | | With a unique sound that samples equally from electronica, noise pop, post-punk, and shoegaze, Autolux formed in 2000 in Los Angeles. |
 | | Dream pop band Mahogany was formed in December 1995 by Allysa Massais and Andrew Prinz, who shared a love for composers such as Debussy and bands such as Section 25. |
 | | The duo known as Loveliescrushing first came together in the early '90s, when vocalist Melissa Arpin and multi-instrumentalist Scott Cortez decided to try their hand at the emerging dream pop scene. |
 | | Singers/guitarists Richard Millang and Ray Lake, bassist Chris Preston and drummer David Mac Wha formed the ambient pop outfit Bethany Curve in Santa Cruz, CA in May 1994; adopting the motto "Atmosphere, Arrangement, Sound, Layering and Noise," the group issued their debut cassette Mee-eaux in 1995, signing to Unit Circle the following year for the full-length Skies a Crossed Sky. |
 | | Copenhagen, Denmark's Jakob Skott debuted his heavily processed dream pop productions as Syntaks in 2001, when the MP3 label DataMusik issued a three-track recording. |
 | | Meshing dreamy, feedback-drenched guitars with airy, catchy melodies, Lush were one of the most prominent shoegazing bands of the early '90s. |
 | | A sugar-spun mix of shoegaze and indie pop, Blackebourg, Sweden's Sad Day for Puppets features guitarists Martin Kallholm and Marcus Sandgren, bassist Alex Svenson, drummer Micael Back and vocalist Anna Eklund. |
 | | The dream-pop, space-rock group Stella Luna formed from the ruins of Starbelly. Hailing from Northeast Florida, Stella Luna is comprised of Susan Hanson (guitar/vocals), Devon Smith (guitar/vocals), Rhonda Roberts (bass), Jennifer Sterling (keyboards) and Darin Fitzpatrick (drums). |
 | | Ambient instrumental post-rock ensemble Joy Wants Eternity had their origin in a Seattle basement in fall 2003, as a response to an ad requesting interested parties for experimenting with the creation of instrumental walls of noise. |
 | | An audio-visual collaboration between some of shoegaze's leading lights and visual artist Simon Welford, Hush Delirium combined Welford's abstract paintings with instrumental tracks from each musician. |
 | | Soundpool, a dream pop ensemble whose reverb-drenched sound draws heavily from seminal artists like My Bloody Valentine and Lush, formed in New York City in 2005 with Kim Field, John Ceparano, Mark Robinson, James Renard, and a rotating cast of bassists who included Ben Malkin, Rich Bennett, Dean McCormick, and Andy Durutti. |
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 | | Chicago's dream-pop quartet Melochrome consists of vocalist/bassist Darlene Poole, vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Pramod Tummala, guitarist/bassist/keyboardist Thomas Stanley, and drummer Josh Isaacs. |
 | | 19-year-old Southern California native Alex Jacob began recording under the moniker Therapies Son(the name was settled on after a “horrible breakup”) in 2010, and within months of releasing his first single, he had become the latest in an increasingly crowded field of 21st century bedroom pop auteurs. |
 | | Dream pop cult icons the Telescopes formed in Burton-on-Trent, England, in 1986 -- singer/guitarist Stephen Lawrie, guitarist/singer Jo Doran, lead guitarist David Fitzgerald, bassist Robert Brookes, and drummer Dominic Dillon comprised the original lineup, which in 1988 issued its first single, Forever Close Your Eyes, a split flexidisc with Loop issued on Cheree in honor of the two groups' joint New Year's Eve performance. |
 | | Space age pop collagists Broadcast formed in Birmingham, England, in 1995; comprised of vocalist Trish Keenan, guitarist Tim Felton, bassist James Cargill, keyboardist Roj Stevens, and drummer Steve Perkins, the quintet came together out of a shared affection for the psychedelic cult band the United States of America, a primary influence on their subsequent work as a group. |
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 | | The Radio Dept. were one of the more successful shoegaze-influenced indie rock bands to come out of Sweden in the early 2000s, making waves among indie aficionados on the strength of their critically acclaimed first release, Lesser Matters. |
 | | Also a member of the Icelandic indie acts Seabear and Sin Fang, Sóley Stefánsdóttir performs delicate electronic pop on her own as just Sóley. |
 | | Although the High Llamas are nominally a group, they're pretty much the brainchild of singer and guitarist Sean O'Hagan. |
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 | | Even within the eclectic world of alternative rock, few bands were so brave, so frequently brilliant, and so deliciously weird as the Flaming Lips. |
 | | A mixture of the quirky psych-pop sensibilities of the Elephant 6 bands (particularly the Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel and Of Montreal) and the more studied coolness of Yo La Tengo or the American Analog Set, Champaign-Urbana Illinois quartet Everybody Uh Oh plays a unique blend of psychedelia and slowcore that combines the best qualities of both while avoiding each style?s excesses. |
 | | Brought together by a common love of the Legendary Pink Dots, the Dutch duo Beequeen came together in the late '80s, comprised of vocalist/instrumentalist Freek Kinkelaar and laptop artist Frans de Waard, whose desire to make abrasive, thoughtful music fit well into the emerging industrial pop scene. |
 | | Wet Hair grew from the ashes of long-running Iowa City, Iowa noise collective Raccoo-oo-oon, begun as a solo project by Raccoo-oo-oon founding member Shawn Reed in the final months of his band's existence. |
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 | | Vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Monica Lionheart is a New York City-based musician with a bent toward her own brand of chillwave/baroque pop and Spanish-language cuts. |
 | | Long acclaimed as one of the most innovative and spellbinding bands on the contemporary British pop scene, the Verve finally broke through to a mass international audience in 1997 with the instant classic "Bittersweet Symphony. |
 | | The Album Leaf is the solo project of Jimmy LaValle, a San Diego-based songwriter who began recording solo material one year after forming the post-rock band Tristeza. |
 | | With their first records, Ride created a unique wall of sound that relied on massive, trembling distortion in the vein of My Bloody Valentine but with a simpler, more direct melodic approach. |
 | | Fronted by identical twin sisters Lauren and Robin Daniels and masterminded by their brother Ben, A Sunny Day in Glasgow emerged in the early 2000s with synth-laden experimental noise-pop that echoed 1980's shoegaze acts like the Jesus and Mary Chain. |
 | | Named in honor of a turn-of-phrase in the J.D. Salinger classic Catcher in the Rye, the noise-pop band Rollerskate Skinny was formed in Dublin, Ireland in 1992 by vocalist/guitarist Ken Griffin, guitarist Ger Griffin (no relation) and bassist Stephen Murray. |
 | | Multi-instrumentalist/writer Thomas Meluch -- who uses Benoît Pioulard as one of his musical alter egos -- combines found sounds, electronics, and atmospheric rock and pop in his various projects. |
 | | Five rail-thin longhairs from Reading, England, Chapterhouse was first linked to the space rock likes of Spacemen 3 and Loop -- the connection with the former being inextricable during the band's youngest months, thanks in part to vocal support from Sonic Boom. |
 | | Eclectic Santa Cruz indie rockers Division Day formed in 2001. Excellently named singer and keyboardist Rohner Segnitz, guitarist Ryan Wilson, bassist Seb Bailey, and drummer Kevin Lenhart recorded their self-titled debut EP that summer before the band ever played a single gig. |
 | | Amnesia was essentially frontman Brad Laner, who had been the driving force behind the Los Angeles-based, alternative rock band Medicine through several albums during the ‘90s. |
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