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Can you suggest some energetic, dream-like alternative songs?

Really didn’t know how to word this. All I know is that I’ve been completely in love with The Shelter of My Love by Astropol. I’m looking for some more alternative, dream-like, cinematic, emotionally intense songs. Songs that make you have flashbacks of things you never experienced. Songs that make you lose yourself before the voice of the artist jolts you awake. Songs that sound like how perpetual fogs and inevitable spirals feel.

I’m not sure what to call this specific genre, either. What the hell is shoegaze, anyway?

Strayce ,

Your description made me think of The Golden Palominos.

Poogona ,
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The entire album Symbol by Susumu Yokota might hit the right nerve, though it’s heavier on the dreamlike side and doesn’t have lyrics. I use it for driving, writing, anything that needs a kind of hypnotized but functional state of mind.

miseducator ,

How about some Beach House?

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

Rapture by Iio.

mindbleach ,

Listening to your example, compare the Deftones’ “Knife Party.”

From the description - hypnogogic pop? Tame Impala, especially anything off Currents. An album that begins with “Let It Happen” and ends with “New Person, Same Old Mistakes.”

Kinda progressive rock, especially post-70s. Kingston Wall - “Could It Be So?”

Songs that make you lose yourself before the voice of the artist jolts you awake.

Oh, so more My Morning Jacket. “Touch Me I’m Going To Scream, Pt.1.” “Dondante.” Or arguably Mew’s “Comforting Sounds.”

UltraGiGaGigantic ,

If you like tame impala, you gotta check out the live rendition of innerspeaker at the wave house. It’s so much better then the studio album.

The video starts at dusk and as the album plays it transitions to night. Just steller shit

theywilleatthestars ,

open.spotify.com/playlist/1p3DNAi9fsqSXNeU0bbi44?…

tiefling ,

I have a playlist called Kodak Daydreams that be what you’re looking for. It’s mostly dreampop and shoegaze

teawrecks ,

Some of the guitar work reminds me of Ratatat.

You might also like Washed Out.

Songs that make you have flashbacks of things you never experienced.

There are all kinds of bands that do that for me. The first two that come to mind are Explosions in the Sky and The Midnight.

Also there’s a recently invented word for that feeling:

Anemoia - n. Nostalgia for a time or a place one has never known.

UltraGiGaGigantic ,

Washed outside paracosm’s album is a masterpiece

selokichtli , (edited )

I concur with those Beach House suggestions and add maybe EMA, Slowdive and possibly Cocteau Twins and Piano Magic. Maybe even the work of Brian Eno in Another Green World?

Oh, and by the way, “shoegaze” is nothing more than a journalistic name to group all bands in the popular musical scene that made a heavy use of pedals to distort or generally modify their guitar sound. They spent so much time watching at their pedals in contrast of earlier guitar players, that they looked like they were gazing at their shoes.

UltraGiGaGigantic ,

Wild Nothing - nocturne

UltraGiGaGigantic ,

Might be to electronica for your tastes but try Tycho’s Dive and awake albums

UltraGiGaGigantic ,

AIR - Moon safari

UltraGiGaGigantic ,

The drums - portamento

Mesa , (edited )
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If you don’t have a particular need for lyrics, or lyrics that you can understand (presumably), I’ve got a few for you.

Nyokabi Kariũki - > YT Link

Aivi & Surasshu - > YT Link

The following is a very short performance for a promotional video for the Lumatone keyboard, but I have it saved in my playlist because of how beautiful it is.

Lumatone performance (YT Link)

I think it demonstrates the vastness of the musical realm by splitting the notes we typically associate with western music into different (and often more numerous) divisions of the octave. One of the best applications of this besides getting that ethereal feeling is that it allows you to explore intervals to a finer degree i.e. achieve cleaner melodic and harmonic tones that are mathematically pleasing to the human ear and mind. This whole concept is called microtonality if anyone is interested. And to your question, OP, I think searching in this area can help you find some of that cosmic, alternative sound you’re looking for.

I know I got a little bit away from the question here, but getting into the microtonal/xenharmonic realm was so magical for me because while I enjoy your typical music theory teachings, I’m very much on the more scientific side of things, and music has always been that intriguing intersection between the indiscriminate and cosmic nature of mathematics and the emotional and beautifully flawed nature of artistic expression. Finding the community and literature around xenharmonic music helped me find my way of exploring music in a way that comes naturally to me.

Edit: One that’s a little more “energetic” that I always get lost in. The entire album is great, but this track in particular - Homestuck: Medium -

choss ,

Hey thanks for the suggestion! I really dig that song!

I think TTRRUUCES - Sensations of Cool hits this prompt pretty perfectly, especially the dream-like quality of the video

Same for Jon Worthy - Please Tell Me

A few more that are close but not quite perfect:

TTRRUUCES - TTRRUUCES

Hiatus Kaiyote - Red Room

Hiatus Kaiyote - And We Go Gentle

Robotaki - All I Can Do

I’m looking forward to listening to the other suggestions, I’ve listened to a few of them and so far they’ve been great!

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