Daughter – “Not Enough”

I was going to say “London’s Daughter” but considering that the three members are now scattered across the globe, the geographic qualifier seems misplaced. I believe the logistics, amongst other factors, were why the band didn’t tour or play live (almost) at all for their last record, 2023’s Stereo Mind Game, which means if you […]

Beach House – “Space Song”

Since I’ve switched to Apple Music for streaming in 2022, it has been very insistent that the most appropriate autoplay selection for whatever album I’ve just finished is Beach House. And not just any Beach House song, but almost always “Space Song”. Sometimes “Myth”, sometimes “Silver Soul”, but most often is “Space Song”, and I’ve […]

Slow Salvation – “The Ghost Of Last Christmas”

The trope of multi-instrumentalist dude and ghostly-voiced girl is a familiar one in dreampop – some might want to use the word cliche – but there’s a reason it persists; when it hits, it hits just right. Slow Salvation score pretty high on both precision and accuracy, with Nashville’s Travis Trevisan (formerly of Tape Deck Mountain) […]

Hatchie – “Sage”

Somehow lost in the rollout of Hatchie’s third album Liquorice last month was that, following what had been a pretty conventional rollout of singles/videos leading up the record’s street date – “Lose It Again” in September, “Only One Laughing” in October – there was a big ol’ video dump on release day, consisting of an […]

Whitelands – “Songbird (Forever)”

We’ve got us another teaser of Whitelands‘ second album Sunlight Echoes ahead of its official release on January 30 of the new year. That makes this the third preview song, if we’re keeping track. Of the soaring, string-laden “Songbird (Forever)”, singer Etienne Quartey-Papafio says: It’s about my friends, the important people in my life, and […]