Cherry Stars Collide: Dream Pop Shoegaze / Various Cherry Stars Collide: Dream Pop Shoegaze / Various CD

Journey Through Key Tracks, Lesser Known Half-Lit Gems And Sleepy Pop Nuggets Of The 1980s And 90s. Featuring Mazzy Star, A. R. Kane, Cocteau Twins, Spiritualized, This Mortal Coil, Slowdive, Chapterhouse, Bel Canto, Julee Cruise, The Chameleons, Dead Can Dance, Talk Talk, Lush, Low And Many More. A Companion Set To 2016's 'Still In A Dream' Set. During the latter half of the 1980s, a wave of alternative artists began to explore a gentler, more ethereal sound, bringing a dream-like aesthetic to the rock and pop idiom. Taking it's lead from the UK (and the 4AD label in particular), this refined approach soon spread, particularly to the United States, slowly picking up the moniker "dream pop" - a catch-all term rather than a genre within itself. Curated by the same team as our successful 'Still In A Dream' 2016 shoegaze set, 'Cherry Stars Collide' explores that sound as it emerged in the mid-80s and proceeded to define a less grounded, more thoughtful approach to musical expression than was offered elsewhere. Fusing and blending with other genres along the way. - from the guitar driven shoegaze movement and proto-Britpop to the post 'C-86' generation and the nascent leftfield clubbing scene - that sound both drew in artists already operating elsewhere and inspired new artists to embark their own journey.

1. AR Kane - Lollita 2. Frazier Chorus - Sloppy Heart 3. Area - With Louise 4. Louis Phillipe - When I'm An Astronaut 5. The Chameleons - I'll Remember 6. Dead Can Dance - In The Kingdom Of The Blind The One-Eyed Are Kings 7. 14 Iced Bears - Hay Fever 8. Talk Talk û Eden (Edit) 9. Shelleyan Orphan - Tar Baby 10. Ultra Vivid Scene - A Dream Of Love 11. This Mortal Coil - Drugs 12. David Sylvian - Pop Song 13. Julee Cruise - Falling (Twin Peaks Theme) 14. Cocteau Twins - Iceblink Luck 15. Eternal - Sleep 16. The Dream Academy - Love 17. Lush - Breeze (Gala version) 18. The Wake - English Rain 19. Blow-Up - Heaven Tonight 20. His Name Is Alive - As We Could Ever 21. Penelope's Web - Lowsun 22. Cranes - Tomorrow's Tears 23. The Heart Throbs - Kiss Me When I'm Starving 24. Breathless - Over and Over 25. Kitchens Of Distinction - Hypnogogic 26. The Innocence Mission - Evensong 27. The Telescopes - Celeste 28. Secret Shine - Grey Skies 29. The Charlottes - Prayer Song 30. Spirea X - Signed D.C. 31. The Cranberries - Them 32. Drop - Within And Beyond 33. Spiritualized - Feel So Sad Glides And Chimes 34. The Ocean Blue - Ballerina Out of Control 35. Lycia - Ionia 36. Chapterhouse - Mesmerise 37. The Sweetest Ache - If I Could Shine 38. Levitation - Rosemary Jones (Coppelia Version) 39. For Against Today Today 40. Red House Painters - Japanese To English 41. Smashing Orange - Strange Young Girls 42. All About Eve - Some Finer Day 43. The Darling Buds - One Thing Leads To Another 44. Sweet Jesus - Your Baby Loves Me (Original Version) 45. The Sundays - God Made Me 46. Love Spirals Downwards - Stir About The Stars 47. Alison's Halo - Sunshy 48. Insides - Yes 49. Mazzy Star - She's My Baby 50. Bel Canto - Unicorn 51. Swallow - Cherry Stars Collide 52. The Ecstasy Of Saint Theresa - Fluidum 53. An April March - All The Flowery 54. Slowdive - In Mind 55. Half String - Sun Less Sea 56. Tse Tse Fly - Dog-Eared 57. St Etienne - California Snow Story 58. Blind Mr Jones - Hey 59. Drugstore - Superglider 60. Pale Saints - Fine Friend 61. Low - Stay 62. Dubstar - Just A Girl She Said 63. Mojave 3 - Where Is The Love 64. This Ascension - August Rain 65. The Autumns - Abbey In An Oak Tree