If dream-pop and shoegaze colliding with ’90s grunge, noise, and garage rock sounds like your bag, dollhouse, the debut album from New York five-piece Slow Fiction, is a pretty compelling proposition. Following three sparkling EPs and a run of singles, including the excellent “When” for Speedy Wunderground, the band have crafted a record that shifts from hazy and dreamlike to abrasive, strident, and propulsive, yet remains threaded throughout with a wistful, often hypnotic beauty.
Previous single “junior year” opens the album with a restless bass line and shimmering, twisting guitars, as frontwoman Julia Vassallo asks, “Who are you when no one’s looking back or through?” It’s a question that hangs over much…