Lilys – Tone Bender
If you don’t like this, then you should just pack it in right now. Meaning pack your suitcase, pack all your shit in your suitcase. Stay alive though, as everyday is unique unto itself like a snow...
View ArticleBlack Swan Lane – In the Ether
“Whenever you have had a dream, the grace of it stays with you all the time, in the ether…” Filed under: Videos Tagged: alternative, art, Beauty, Black Swan Lane, dream pop, fan video, Goth, i...
View ArticleSIGNS – BANANA CLIP – FREE DOWNLOAD ENTIRE EP
When you live like I live, you really cling to shit, not knowing where you’re headed, or where you’ll be next week, I feel like I’m beyond any sort of explanations, but I used to watch Signs the M....
View ArticleJesse Ruins – SOFIJA
Let this beautiful track kick in, turns from ambient to dream-gaze, making me sad as shit right now. I don’t think I want to talk about it now, maybe later. When life pisses on you, some say get an...
View ArticleMushy + A.R. Kane –“My Life So Far” FREE DOWNLOAD
http://soundcloud.com/selftitledmag Filed under: Free Downloads, MP3S, Music Tagged: 2012, A.R. Kane, art, Beauty, collab, dream gaze, dream pop, Electronic, Free, Free Download, heavy, i vacation in...
View ArticleI VACATION IN YOUR FILTER CULTURE COLLIDE DAY 1: GALAXIE 500 (DEAN WAREHAM...
The world of festivals for the most part have become overpriced and homogenized, providing nearly identical experiences across the country, sometimes you can enjoy a twin of the spring festival you...
View ArticleI VACATION IN YOUR: PLEASURE CURSES INTERVIEW + EXCLUSIVE TRACK FREE DOWNLOAD
I heard about PLEASURE CURSES when they wrote me to let me know about their tracks, which are FUCKING AMAZING!!!! They realized you have to speak my language to get my attention, which they reference...
View ArticleDREAM COP – WARM THRASH // MAROONED
Continuing my dream jag that I’m currently moving into the dry heave stages of. Change the C to a P and you pretty much got their vibe. The first track is a builder, but I like where it goes, and the...
View ArticleMushy –“When You Say Time” (1984)
I honestly don’t have a lot of money, barely enough to get by and eat most days, still not finding a place to crash for more than a few nights in a row. I went to a soup kitchen to try to get dinner...
View ArticleWhite Blush – White Blush EP
The white witch really comes out in the track “True Luv” in an album that is very casio driven and at times a bit raw. Several of the dozen or so listens gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling just like...
View ArticleHazy Mountains – Breeze – LP
Filed under: Music Tagged: ambient, Breeze, chillwave, Crystal Echoes, deep, dream pop, Eavesdrop, Electronic, Hazy Mopuntains, hazy-mountains, hazymountains, Night Swim
View ArticlePrison for Kids: An Interview (I Vacation in Los Angeles)
My obsession with dreamy noise-pop goes back long before I started musing this journal. I grew up on this shit. It is the ultimate mind escape. It is paired well with insert your favorite designer...
View ArticleSatchmode – Best Intentions
Everyone has the best of intentions in life. I know I did. There was so much I wanted to do and escape from. Sometimes I gaze deep into artists like this and their sound and it takes me to a place...
View ArticleSatchmode /// Collide EP
This came down the IVIYH chimney a few days ago, and shit this first track is blowing my shit. I’m not sure I can wrap my mind around the name Satchmode, does this refer to european satchel fashion? I...
View ArticleAncient Babes – Futuristic Demon // Free Download
Ancient Babes is the moniker of Vancouver B.C.’s Sam King. The release of his Futuristic Demon EP coincides with the completion of his PhD in particle physics. Indeed, the first Ancient Babes single...
View ArticlePastel Ghost // Prism
This ghost displays in a pastel tone so you won’t confuse it with Former Ghosts, Featureless Ghost or Ghosts. Sometimes I like to get lifted to dream pop, even when the cover art of this one suggests...
View ArticleCurseWords // Nature’s First Green is Gold
Out of all the shit I had to listen to this weekend, this release by Cursewords made it all worthwhile. These are some mellow ambient productions produced enough to make it palatable by outsiders. You...
View ArticleKat Haus // Beautiful Things EP
These Kats are dropping a debut EP this Friday entitled Beautiful Things. It wasn’t just but a week ago that I discovered their back catalog of sounds which had me on a bender of sorts. When I get...
View ArticlePrison for Kids // Revived Divine
The Kids are one of my all-time favorite artists doing what they are doing today in the modern shit fest which is the post apocalyptic days of the dead music industry. When I say “artist” I mean that...
View ArticleGrimes Pulls Off Amazing Chris Gaines Style Alter Ego With New Project Pixx
There is not a living man, woman or child who doesn’t know about Grimes, one of the most celebrated german songstresses alive. Taking a page from Garth Brooks, she has just completed her latest studio...
View ArticleUltraviolet // Lock & Key
Coming straight from Shoegazeville, Texas with this one. I like the swarming melodies these cats create with instrumentation fed through a multitude of effects while her voice swims alongside it for...
View ArticleLush // Out Of Control
It has been a long time since these cats have delivered new material. Talking about going all the way back to 1996! After reuniting the right way by releasing new material and planning an all out...
View ArticleDEAR BABY DEER /// THIN /// DREAMPOP MAGICK
I wanted to be terrified by a band that would name itself something like Dear Baby Deer, but it’s not terrifying, very mellow and pretty nice. I’ve had a hard fucking run lately, most people don’t...
View ArticleFUNERAL ADVANTAGE /// PLEASE HELP ME // FULL ALBUM
One of the strongest tracks of the year, I like his crystal. This is what Funeral Advantage say about Funeral Advantage: Funeral Advantage have been mostly hermetic since the release of ‘Body Is Dead’,...
View ArticleWILD NOTHING /// BEGIN AGAIN /// NEW SINGLE
Not bad for a single dropped out of the blue, for some charity thing, being a nihilist goth charity doesn’t ring my bell, but helping the cause of my fav indie top 40 bb will never die. What’s with...
View ArticleYEULE /// POCKY BOY /// NEW TRACK
They had me at experimental Dreampop model from Singapore, clearly she had it subconsciously planned to hit IVIYH’s audience hard. Good shit, has a real smoothed out feel, dream pop seems to be...
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