A Disappears show isn’t the place where you’d ordinarily find children sipping on juice boxes or older folks crunching on chips at metallic silver tables. Then again, this was no ordinary Disappears show.

It was a free show for Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago‘s concert series, “Future Sounds: New Music From Chicago And Beyond,” and as it was open to the general public, an unusually eclectic bunch of interested museum goers, families and near-fauxhemians gathered on a wet Tuesday evening to check out one of Chicago’s most interesting bands.

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What is it about dream pop and, especially, dream pop bands with female vocalists? Genres come and go in my appreciation, but not dream pop. Whether it was Lush in the ’90s, Broadcast in the early aughts, or Beach House today -all great bands with disconsolate songstresses – my interest never wanes.

Of course, a long-standing appreciation can make one critical of new comers. It’s difficult to impress. Enter: Architecture, a two-piece consisting of Rebecca Scott and Melissa Harris. Their debut EP When We Were Young is a study in the genre.

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Not many young bands these days have patience for the slow burners. With nary a catchy hook to their name, Nude Sunrise rewards the long listen in their impressive full-length LP Hunks Like Us. The Chicago-based foursome draws from genres as disparate as psych-jam, kraut-rock, New Wave, and the sweet licks mentality of soulful southern rock. It’s a motley hybrid that the album pulls off successfully in eight songs inviting the listener to come in, have a seat, and stay a while.

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We Repel Each Other’s Murmur is about as strong as a debut as you can get for a Noise rock band. They find a way to define their own personal sound in abrasive in unconventional ways, especially when considering the genre.

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At one point, I referred to Chicago’s Village as a less robotic Spoon fed a diet of the Jam. If that were the case then, it’s surely is not the case on Local Moves. Yes, there’s still a jangle to the guitars and a bit of detached cool, but for the most part, it conjures up a more straight forward Television more than anything else. Indie rock used to be all about that 70′s New York art rock scene, and it is that era that seems to permeate Local Moves.

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Plenty of assumptions could be made about a band that takes its name from the 1985 Michael J. Fox film “Back to the Future.” The first being, its members are really into fantasy dreamscapes. On Chicago trio Save the Clocktower’s sophomore effort Carousel, the band takes us on a very visual journey of swirling, electronica-filled dream destinations that feel comfortably familiar.

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Chicago psych-punks Disappears return with a powerful punch to the senses on their jam-heavy second album Guider. Even though the album clocks in at a mere 30 minutes, Disappears’ rattling drones exist outside of time, extending past the salt in the hourglass.

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