Dream Pop & Shoegaze
Cascading layers of reverb guitars, whispery ethereal vocals, and floating weightless cloudscapes.
Essential & sibling bands
Bands that share this sound. Each one opens a search on Spotify or YouTube.
- SlowdiveSpotify search for SlowdiveYouTube search for Slowdive
- Cocteau TwinsSpotify search for Cocteau TwinsYouTube search for Cocteau Twins
- Beach HouseSpotify search for Beach HouseYouTube search for Beach House
- M83Spotify search for M83YouTube search for M83
- Washed OutSpotify search for Washed OutYouTube search for Washed Out
- The Postal ServiceSpotify search for The Postal ServiceYouTube search for The Postal Service
- LushSpotify search for LushYouTube search for Lush
Species in this vibe
Bed Bug
The flat, blood-drinking insect that mates by piercing the female's abdomen and can go months between meals.
Casper Octopus
The nearly translucent deep-sea octopod that nobody has named, because nobody has ever caught one.
Coypu
A webbed-footed marsh rodent with its eyes, ears and nostrils on top of its head.
Deer Tick
Waits on a plant for a passing host to brush by, then feeds for days.
Domestic Rabbit
Sees almost all the way around, twists in midair when happy, and eats its own droppings for a second pass at its food.
Giant Prickly Stick Insect
A leaf-mimic that sways like a branch in the breeze, and hatches looking like an ant.
Great Horned Owl
Feathered horn tufts, tiger of the air, and nocturnal forest ambush conqueror.
Harbor Seal
Whiskers that detect a swimming fish's wake, a heart rate that can drop to three or four beats a minute on a dive, and the widest range of any seal on Earth.
Immortal Jellyfish
A bell up to 3.3 millimetres wide that can turn back into a polyp instead of dying, in the lab at least.
Japanese Macaque
The world's northernmost wild monkey, meeting -20°C mountain winters with long fur, huddles and, in one valley, a hot-spring soak that may help keep it warm.
Long-Bodied Cellar Spider
The ceiling spider that raids other spiders' webs and spins itself into a blur when threatened.
Long-Tailed Chinchilla
An Andean rodent with up to 60 hairs growing from one follicle.
Megamouth Shark
A filter-feeding shark first known from 1976, when one got tangled in a research ship's parachute anchor.
Orchid Mantis
Flower-colored to a bee's eyes, it draws in wild pollinators at a higher rate than real flowers do, then catches them.
Silkworm
A caterpillar that grows thousands of times heavier in a month, then wraps itself in one silk thread up to 1,800 metres long.
Snow Petrel
An all-white Antarctic seabird that sometimes nests hundreds of kilometers inland and spits stomach oil that can build up around its nest for thousands of years.
Snowy Owl
A powerful owl of the Arctic tundra that often hunts by day, colored for winter camouflage and able to take birds as big as geese.
Whale Shark
World's largest fish, an ocean giant armored in tooth-like scales down to its eyeballs, that filters its food out of seawater.