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>>55028168
Heaven or Las Vegas (which i also love) is kind of CT's ambassador album. By the time they recorded it the tropes of dreampop that we know and love had been established (largely by CT themselves), and they were already starting to prefigure the themes that would later dominate shoegaze. Treasure was at the frontier of the genre and lacked the formula (I don't use that word dismissively) for dreampop, giving it an organic feel that much of their later work lacked. Their next album, Victorialand, still has a lot of that feeling. If you really want to explode your head a little, give their first album, Garlands, a listen as well. It sounds almost like a mid 90's darkwave album, and probably influenced the genre as much as CT's postpunk contemporaries.
As a side note, Ivo Watts-Russell, one of the founders of 4AD and CT's early producer probably had a lot to do with their sound, and the sound of dreampop and shoegaze in general. He was also the mind behind >>55021784. I consider him the oft-forgotten father of dreampop and shoegaze.
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