List of dream pop artists

This is a list of dream pop artists. Individuals are alphabetized by their surname.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

A–M

• Air ^[1]
• All About Eve ^[2]
• Alvvays ^[3]
• A.R. Kane ^{[4] [5]}
• Atlas Sound ^[5]
• Au Revoir Simone ^[6]
• The Autumns ^{[7] [8]}
• Azure Ray ^[9]
• Basement Revolver ^[10]
• Bat for Lashes ^[11]
• Beach Fossils ^[12]
• Beach House ^{[5] [13]}
• Bell Hollow ^[14]
• Belly ^[15]
• Blonde Redhead ^[5]
• The Boo Radleys ^{[16] [17]}
• Braids ^[5]
• Broadcast ^[18]
• Candidate ^[19]
• Candy Claws ^[20]
• Catherine Wheel ^[21]
• Chapterhouse ^[16]
• Chromatics ^[22]
• Cigarettes After Sex ^[23]
• Cocteau Twins ^{[5] [24]}
• Cranes ^[25]
• Julee Cruise ^[26]
• Crumb ^[27]
• Cults ^{[28] [29]}
• Curve ^[30]
• The Depreciation Guild ^[31]
• Devics ^[32]
• DIIV ^[33]
• Echo Lake ^[5]
• Elysian Fields ^[34]
• Engineers ^[35]
• Eskobar ^[36]
• Ethel Cain ^[37]
• Fear of Men ^[38]
• Field Mouse ^[39]
• Fishmans ^[40]
• For Against ^[41]
• For Tracy Hyde ^[42]
• Galaxie 500 ^{[24] [43]}
• Kenneth James Gibson ^[44]
• Girl in Red ^[45]
• Grimes ^{[46] [47] [48]}
• Hatchie ^[49]
• Her's ^[50]
• High Highs ^[51]
• The High Violets ^[52]
• The Hundred in the Hands ^[53]
• I Break Horses ^[5]
• The Innocence Mission ^[54]
• It Hugs Back ^[55]
• Japanese Breakfast ^[56]
• Jay Som ^[57]
• Jadu ^[58]
• jj ^[59]
• The Joy Formidable ^[60]
• Kitchens of Distinction ^[61]
• Lab Partners ^[62]
• Landing ^[63]
• Lana Del Rey ^{[64] [65]}
• Letting Up Despite Great Faults ^[66]
• Lykke Li ^[67]
• Little Dragon ^[68]
• London Grammar ^[69]
• Lorde ^[70]
• Lovesliescrushing ^[71]
• Lower Dens ^[72]
• Lush ^{[16] [30]}
• M83 ^[73]
• Magic Wands ^[74]
• Mahogany ^[75]
• Mazzy Star ^[76]
• Medicine ^[77]
• Men I Trust ^{[78] [79] [80]}
• Mira ^[81]
• Mr Twin Sister ^[5]
• My Bloody Valentine ^{[24] [82] [83] [30]}

N–Z

• The Nightblooms ^[84]
• The Ocean Blue ^[85]
• The One AM Radio ^[86]
• Pale Saints ^[16]
• Palm Ghosts ^[87]
• Papercuts ^[88]
• Parannoul ^[89]
• Parekh & Singh ^[90]
• Parker and Lily ^[91]
• Plastic Flowers ^[92]
• Porcelain Raft ^[5]
• Purity Ring ^[5]
• The Raveonettes ^[93]
• Ride ^[16]
• Sarah P. ^[94]
• Alexandra Savior ^[95]
• Say Lou Lou ^[96]
• School of Seven Bells ^[97]
• Secret Shine ^[98]
• Seely ^[99]
• Sigur Rós ^[5]
• Troye Sivan ^[100]
• Slowdive ^[16]
• Snakadaktal ^[101]
• Snow & Voices ^[102]
• Soundpool ^[103]
• Spirea X ^[104]
• Spotlight Kid ^[105]
• SRSQ ^[106]
• Still Corners ^[107]
• Stripmall Architecture ^[108]
• Sugar Plant ^[109]
• The Sundays ^[110]
• Sweet Trip ^[111]
• Tanukichan ^[112]
• The Telescopes ^[113]
• Them Are Us Too ^[114]
• This Mortal Coil ^{[5] [115]}
• Trance to the Sun ^[116]
• Turnover ^[117]
• Vansire ^[118]
• Venus Hum ^[119]
• Vision Eternel ^{[120] [121]}
• Vivian Girls ^[122]
• Warpaint ^[123]
• Washed Out ^[124]
• Wet ^[125]
• White Violet ^[126]
• Wild Nothing ^[5]
• The xx ^[127]
• Your Friend ^[128]
• The Zephyrs ^[129]

See also

• List of shoegaze musicians

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