The 10 Best Dream Pop Albums

Coined in the late 1980s to describe the slow, jazzy psychedelia by the British duo A.R. Kane, the term “dream pop” soon came to describe a genre of its own. Coalescing first around the trendsetting London label 4AD, the new sound discovered whole musical universes inside its gauzy lullabies. Three decades later, dream pop possesses a rich, generation-spanning canon of its own.