Belle And Sebastian - today this army's for peace, 2015

"One fandom I haven’t touched on in a long time is Belle & Sebastian, specifically their 2015 hit album Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance. Longtime readers may remember that I was mildly obsessed with this record when it came out. Belle & Sebastian, of course, were one of the progenitors of dreampop; their lo-fi acoustic-folk balladry formed the roots of the genre back in the 90’s. Though their early work was notably more raw and analog than than the electronic smoothness associated with the genre at its peak, they introduced many of its most recognizable elements: twee aesthetics, an emotional palette of the mournful and the sentimental, gentle tunefulness, dreamy vocals, etc."