Editing Dream pop (section)

=== Early–mid 1980s: Development ===
[[File:Cocteau Twins - Los Angeles Times (1985).jpg|thumb|upright|Newspaper clipping of Cocteau Twins, 1985]]
A.J. Ramirez of ''[[PopMatters]]'' recognises an evolutionary line from [[gothic rock]] to dream pop.<ref name="goth">{{cite web|last=Ramirez|first=A.J. |url=http://www.popmatters.com/post/115525-bela-lugosis-dead-thirty-years-of-goth-gloom-and-post-post-punk/|date=31 October 2009|title='Bela Lugosi's Dead': 30 Years of Goth, Gloom, and Post-Post-Punk |website=PopMatters |access-date=2017-01-11}}</ref> The early 1980s gothic-derived "[[ethereal wave]]" subgenre, with its [[effects unit|effects]]-laden guitar sounds and female vocals, led to the dream pop and shoegaze scenes; it was represented by [[Cocteau Twins]] and labels such as [[4AD Records|4AD]] and [[Projekt Records]].<ref name="Bernard2013-99" >''"L'ethereal wave s'est développée à partir du gothic rock ... Cela est rendu par des effets d'écho, de reverb et de delay très imposants sur les guitares ... On relève une prédominance d'un chant féminin haut perché ou très ample et de voix masculines soufflées, douces at contemplatives. Les paroles sont parfois difficilement compréhensibles ... L'ethereal wave (et notamment les Cocteau Twins) a grandement influencé le shoegaze et la dream pop. Les labels principaux promouvant le genre sont 4AD et Projekt Records."''</ref> ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' describes "modern dream pop" as originating with the early 1980s work of Cocteau Twins and their contemporaries.<ref name="rs"/> [[AllMusic]]'s Jason Ankeny credits the Cocteau Twins' "distinctly ethereal" sound and singer [[Elizabeth Fraser]]'s operatic, indecipherable vocals with defining their label, the UK-based 4AD.<ref name="all 2">{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/cocteau-twins-p3932/biography|title=Cocteau Twins' Biography|last=Ankeny|first=Jason|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=8 March 2012}}</ref> According to ''[[Paste Magazine|Paste]]'', the band crystallized their "swelling, euphoric" dream pop sound on the 1984 album ''[[Treasure (Cocteau Twins album)|Treasure]]'', with guitarist [[Robin Guthrie]] conjuring an array of "woozy textures from his arsenal of effects pedals."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Schoenfield |first1=Zach |title=The 25 Best Dream Pop Albums of All Time |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/best-albums/dream-pop-albums-of-all-time-cocteau-twins |website=Paste}}</ref>

The 1984 album ''[[It'll End in Tears]]'' by 4AD's "dream-pop supergroup" [[This Mortal Coil]]<ref name="rs"/> was conceived by label head [[Ivo Watts-Russell]] and featured members of Cocteau Twins and [[Dead Can Dance]]. The album helped "set the template for dream pop" and associated the formerly gothic-affiliated UK label with the style.<ref name="Best">{{cite web |last1=Berman |first1=Judy |title=The 30 Best Dream Pop Albums |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-30-best-dream-pop-albums/?page=3 |website=Pitchfork |date=16 April 2018 |access-date=27 May 2021}}</ref> The album's 1983 single, the [[Tim Buckley]] cover "[[Song to the Siren#This Mortal Coil version|Song to the Siren]]", became an influential work in the genre, and saw success in the [[UK Indie Chart]], remaining there consistently for two years.<ref name="Best"/> Other early acts to touch on the style included [[Lori and the Chameleons]], [[Dif Juz]], and [[the Durutti Column]].<ref name=keymag/> According to ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'', [[Vini Reilly]] of the Durutti Column "embodied the cliché of the suicidal dream-pop guitarist in the mid-1980s" with his "narcotic performances" presaging later acts such as [[My Bloody Valentine (band)|My Bloody Valentine]] and [[Galaxie 500]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Unknown |title=The Durutti Column: Keep Breathing Album Review |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2490-keep-breathing/ |website=Pitchfork |access-date=26 March 2022}}</ref> The Dif Juz album ''[[Extractions (album)|Extractions]]'' (1985) would expand the dream pop sound, incorporating saxophone, shifting tonalities, and off-kilter rhythms.<ref name="vinyl">{{cite web |title=The Top 40 Essential Dreampop Vinyl |url=https://longlivevinyl.net/2019/10/30/the-essential-dreampop/ |website=Long Live Vinyl |date=30 October 2019 |access-date=4 August 2024}}</ref>

Film director [[David Lynch]], unable to obtain the rights to This Mortal Coil's version of "Song to the Siren" for his 1986 film ''[[Blue Velvet (film)|Blue Velvet]]'', enlisted composer [[Angelo Badalamenti]] and singer [[Julee Cruise]] to record a replacement track. The result was "Mysteries of Love", described by ''Rolling Stone'' as a significant development of the dream pop sound which "gave the genre its [[Synthesizer|synth]]y sheen".<ref name="rs">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/dream-team-the-semi-mysterious-story-behind-the-music-of-twin-peaks-20140725|title=Dream Team: The Semi-Mysterious Story Behind the Music of 'Twin Peaks'|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|publisher=Wenner Media|last1=Grow|first1=Kory|date=25 July 2014|access-date=6 August 2016}}</ref> The trio of Cruise, Lynch and Badalamenti later recorded the 1989 album ''[[Floating into the Night]]'', which further elaborated on the style and featured the ''[[Twin Peaks]]'' theme and UK top 10 single "[[Falling (Julee Cruise song)|Falling]]".<ref name="rs"/>