New York City-based dream pop outfit
Dream Diary formed in 2009 around the talents of
Jacob Danish Sloan,
Madison Farmer, and Alexander Iezzi. The Brooklyn trio’s melodic blend of retro shoegaze, twee pop, and indie rock owes as much to veteran romancers like
the Smiths and
the Pastels as it does more recent acts like
the Pains of Being Pure at Heart and
Frightened Rabbit. The band unleashed its first collection of breezy, self-described “cardigan rock,”
You Are the Beat, in 2011 on Kanine Records. ~ James Christopher Monger