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Mazzy Star
Mazzy Star, built around Hope Sandoval's hazy, understated vocals and David Roback's atmospheric guitar work, became one of dream pop's most commercially significant acts following the surprise mainstream success of their 1993 single "Fade Into You." That song's unexpected radio and MTV success brought dream pop's typically niche, atmospheric sound to a mainstream alternative rock audience during the early 1990s, a period when the genre had little commercial visibility outside dedicated underground and college radio scenes. Sandoval's deliberately reclusive public persona, rarely giving interviews and maintaining a low media profile even at the height of the band's commercial success, gave Mazzy Star a mystique that became closely intertwined with the hazy, mysterious atmosphere of their recorded music itself. Their combination of "Fade Into You's" unexpected mainstream breakthrough and Sandoval's distinctively atmospheric vocal style has made Mazzy Star one of the most commercially significant dream pop acts to emerge from the genre's original 1990s scene.
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Cigarettes After Sex
Cigarettes After Sex built a devoted international following around a minimalist, extremely slow-tempo take on dream pop, built on Greg Gonzalez's deep, breathy near-whispered vocals layered over sparse, reverb-heavy guitar and understated production. Their 2017 self-titled debut album, built on songs Gonzalez had written and refined over more than a decade before the band's breakthrough, became a major streaming-era success story, with the band's atmospheric sound finding a particularly strong audience through curated mood-based playlists. Gonzalez's androgynous, deliberately affectless vocal delivery became one of the most distinctive and immediately recognizable vocal styles in contemporary dream pop, distinguishing the band's sound clearly from both its 1990s genre predecessors and its more immediate 2010s contemporaries. Their combination of their distinctively minimalist sonic approach and their significant streaming-era commercial breakthrough has made Cigarettes After Sex one of the most commercially successful dream pop acts of the genre's most recent generation.
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