Whitelands opened up the year with the best shoegaze debuts of the year in Night-Bound Eyes Are Blind To The Day, and clearly cognizant of the fact that time moves fast and memories are short, they’ve just released a new non-album single to remind you that their lush dreampop is some kind of delicious.
Regarding the accompanying video, they band say it was created:
with some video footage edited by @innerstrings that we recorded on our tour with @slowdiveofficial! A really beautiful capsule on hotels and family guy re-runs, and admittedly a lot of fun :).
Whitelands @ Instagram
And further, the band are teasing some big news for next Tuesday, so who knows, maybe I’ll be back again in this space next week with more?
“Cheer” is not a new song, though. It appeared on their self-titled mini-album back in 2018 in a much rougher form.
There’s also a live recording from last year that’s obviously much closer to the version released today:
And for completeness, here’s an interview the band did with The Culture Crypt in April, some months after my last Whitelands post:
