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The Sundays
The Sundays combined dream pop's atmospheric guitar textures with Harriet Wheeler's clear, emotionally direct vocals, building a smaller but critically beloved catalog across three albums released between 1990 and 1997 before the band's extended hiatus. Their 1990 debut "Reading, Writing and Arithmetic" became one of the era's most acclaimed indie debuts, and its jangly, melodically bright take on dream pop's atmospheric textures distinguished the band from genre contemporaries leaning toward denser, more shoegaze-adjacent production. Wheeler's clearer, more conventionally melodic vocal delivery, relative to the more textural, less lyrically foregrounded approach of some dream pop contemporaries, gave The Sundays' catalog a distinctly more immediately accessible entry point into the genre's broader sound. Their combination of "Reading, Writing and Arithmetic's" critical acclaim and Wheeler's distinctively clear vocal approach has made The Sundays one of the most beloved, if smaller-catalog, acts in dream pop's original 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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