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.

One can easily forget that Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and all of those in their circle were real people, and in those early days of live performance not that much older ...