A very comprehensive curated playlist of dream pop and easy listening pop songs by new artists and brought to you by Dream Pop Productions. Here you'll find several hours of sounds pleasing to your ears and soul. Thanks.

Best New Dream Pop Songs 2025

Just what the title says. Almost exclusively new easy-listening dream pop songs for relaxing with a glass of...whatever you like!

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Steve Bareham All Tracks

It's the Livin' That Counts

Woman leaves man so he hits the dating scene with all the usual trappings. His goal is to find a new love, but he's stuck in an emotional rut and finds out that what he's really looking for is a copy of his lost love. Old story....

Runaround

Man leaves woman after avowing forever love. He's a cad. She's sad. Her friends warned her. Listen to your friends. 

Full Moon Shining

Woman leaves man so he's destitute and believes she has no heart. 

Do You Have a Heart

Man falls for woman who turns out to be not so nice, so now he's down and playing the blues on his steel guitar. Old story....still worth listening to if you like tasty guitar licks.

Blue Steel

Man catches woman kissing another man; he's not impressed. But now he's depressed so he writes a song to tell the world. You should listen to his sad story. :) 

Blues are Made for Bad News: Blues goes dream pop

Man is head over heels in love, i.e. "Just One Love" and he's singing her praises. He's not really at the Eiffel Tower, but it's in the lyrics. You'll have to listen to learn more.

Just One Love

Man gets depressed with work-a-day world so flies off to Mexico where he consumes too much tequila but then meets a beautiful Mexican girl and falls deeply in love. But then he has to return to his real life; years later, he still laments the love he left -- his Tequila Cecelia. Below are complete lyrics, thanks for listening:

TEQUILA CECELIA

[Chorus]
Cecelia is her name, our love a livin’ flame
Cecelia is her name, I’ll never be the same…never be the same…

[Verse 1]
Nine to five wearin’ weary, feelin’ so down
Found myself in Mexico, my sorrows to be drowned
The sun and tequila the only way to go
Forgetting past heartache the only way I know

Feelin’ so hung, woke by the sun
a vision in white kissed by the light 
Raven hair, soft brown eyes
her warm embrace, her lovin’ sighs
Our passion burned, days flew by
ocean breeze where we lie

[Chorus]
Cecelia is her name...Tequila Cecelia...I’ll never be the same
Cecelia is her name...Tequila Cecelia...my memories remain…memories remain…

[Verse 2]
Life called me back, I had to go, a fevered kiss, a promise spoke  
Time escaped, life’s rut took hold, a young lost love so long ago
To this day I wonder why, in my dreams I still see her cry.

[Verse 3]
Again I’m so lonely, for a lost one and only…
Her raven hair, soft brown eyes, her warm embrace, her lovin’ sighs

[Chorus]
Cecelia was her name...Tequila Cecelia...I’ll never know her love again 
Cecelia was her name...Tequila Cecelia...I’ll never be the same, I’ll never be the same…my tequila Cecelia

Tequila Cecelia

Classic story of romantic break up and heart break. Woman laments loss of her love so she does what many people do: sits in her apartment drinkin' and smokin' and feelin' alone. Nice lyrics and instrumentation in my view. What do you think? 

Smokin' Drinkin' Feelin' Alone

Smoking Drinking Feeling Alone

The classic song with one of the best melodies of all time. The lyrics were written in 1910 by Frederic Weatherly and refitted to the tune Londonderry Air in 1913. To my surprise, the song works well recovered in a dream pop vein with female vocals. You must hear the beautiful female chorus!! Complete lyrics below:

OH DANNY BOY

[verse 1]
Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side
Summer's gone, and all the flowers dying
'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide.

[Chorus]
Come ye back when summer's in the meadow
Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow
For I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow, 
Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so.

[Verse 2]
And if you come, when all the flowers are dying
And I am dead, as dead I well may be
You'll come and find the place where I am lying
And kneel and say a prayer there for me.

[Chorus]
Come ye back when summer's in the meadow
Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow
I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow, 
Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so.

[Verse 3]

And I shall hear, tho' soft you tread above me, 
And all my dreams will warm and sweeter be
If you'll not fail to tell me that you love me
I'll simply sleep in peace until you come to me.
I'll sleep in peace until you come to me…

Danny Boy

Danny Boy (dream pop style with lyrics)

Many may not know that the original House of the Rising Sun lyrics were written in the 1920s and represented a song popular with American miners of the day. The lyrics differ somewhat from the popular versions recorded in the '70s. Since the original lyrics were written 100 years ago, the song is now copyright free as long as renditions do not infringe on previous artists. This version does not. 

House of the Rising Sun

House of the Rising Sun (Dream Pop)

Lonely man in old dusty mansion laments loss of his lover. He just can't get over her so he sits around in dust and ashes which sounds like it could get a bit uncomfortable after awhile...

Dust & Ashes Blues

Lonely girl waits under a weeping willow tree for her lover who never arrives. Heart broken she asks the willow tree to cry for her. By morning the willow tree still stands but the young woman is gone, the willow knows about the power of the flowing waters nearby...have a listen.

Weeping Willow Weep for Me

Man loved woman but she left him for another guy who turns out to be not as nice or caring as he used to be. So she's sad the guy she left now sees a new opportunity to win her back...but, of course, he spent years crying, denying, and dying inside waiting for this day to come.  

Crying Denying Dying

Denying Crying Dying

MUSIC MADE IN CANADA: Music has been a large part of my life since my teen years when I started playing guitar. Used to play popular pop and country songs in bars, songs written by other artists but for past couple decades have focused entirely on writing and producing my own songs across a number of genres: pop, country, blues, and more recently dream pop and what I'm calling whiskey blues dream pop, a style that merges the two and that seems complimentary to my ear. I believe each style can sound good and give people pleasure: that's my goal in writing. Now I produce sounds featuring both male and female vocals as the lyrics dictate; variety is the spice of...well, you know. Thanks for listening.