Only In Dreams is rich enough that it is not hard to imagine people bickering about the standouts.
The record has taken adversity and chosen to stand atop it, looking to the future instead of being buried beneath its weighty pressures.
The pristine production sounds great, but it makes the lack of complexity and occasional shortcomings ... all too apparent.
It’s time for the Dum Dum Girls to join our sordid reality rather than swoon at it from afar.
Only in Dreams is emblematic of an entire strain of prosaic, backward-looking indie rock that’s given too much leniency contrary to what it actually has to offer.
There are some songs to love, but you can only take so many variations of the same theme.
Returning back to the year 2011 and revisiting some of the best albums that year had to offer, I stop here at Dum Dum Girls and wonder what it would have been like to listen to this album back when it first released. Right now I'm not just not that all enamored with what I hear. I recognize that this is a sound that was becoming more and more popular for indie music at the time and the theme and lyrics of the songs off Only In Dreams are compelling, but the sound doesn't touch me now. I've ... read more
The album is slow in disposition, but at the same time, it is very haunting and contemplative.
1 | Always Looking 2:18 | 83 |
2 | Bedroom Eyes 3:54 | 86 |
3 | Just a Creep 2:56 | 81 |
4 | In My Head 3:48 | 84 |
5 | Heartbeat 2:50 | 85 |
6 | Caught in One 3:44 | 87 |
7 | Coming Down 6:29 | 94 |
8 | Wasted Away 3:39 | 87 |
9 | Teardrops on My Pillow 2:48 | 83 |
10 | Hold Your Hand 3:57 | 84 |
#4 | / | Spinner |
#17 | / | SPIN |
#40 | / | Under the Radar |
#46 | / | One Thirty BPM |