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"Dream About Me"

I'm sorry, Mario, but our princess is blissed-out. Again. The Depreciation Guild first delivered us their surprisingly complementary combo of videogame blips and shoegaze ethereality on 2007's self-released In Her Gentle Jaws. The Brooklyn band's frontman, Kurt Feldman, also happens to be the drummer for a little band called the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, who've managed to level-up successfully this year. The new single from Feldman's main band upgrades their debut album's sound with the confidence generated by that kind of experience. It's wispy dream-pop about dreaming-- but it's solidly wispy.

As with Pains, your mileage with this stuff may depend on whether you can hear the music through the reference points. In either case, it's worth the effort. On "Dream About Me", the Deprecation Guild's 8-bit elements are mostly there in the arcade (pre-Fire) synths. The drum sounds have more of that heavy thud from Loveless. And where Pains work in the noisy twee-pop milieu of earlier My Bloody Valentine or my beloved Rocketship, Depreciation Guild are slower and just a touch more sensitive. In fact, this song's combination of reverb-saturated guitars, electronics, and the androgynous whispers sent me scrambling through iTunes for my Field Mice comps. Hey influence-spotters, remember a few years ago when Brazilian electro-punks CSS suggested "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above"? Well, let's kiss and make up and download an emulator for "Mike Tyson's Punch Out".
