Enveloping with a dreamy post-punk magnificence that remembers the likes of The Chameleons UK, “Dream Hangover” is a gripping new single from Dream Our bodies. Los Angeles-based artist Steven Fleet is the only real songwriter and instrumentalist, along with his longtime pal Josh Achziger offering mixing and mastering. Ghostly synths, a driving rhythmic pulse, and twanging guitar chills conjure a sound with deep ’80s nostalgia, centering across the “only a stunning dream,” chorus in its wistful eager for a greater actuality.
Private tumult is mirrored within the total lyrical prowess, although additionally presenting a hope following the strife. “It’s about going via a painful breakup after having misplaced your id and given it away to a poisonous relationship, however then discovering your method and sense of self within the aftermath,” Fleet explains.
“I don’t wanna get up,” Fleet’s decisive vocals hypnotize amidst the synth/guitar intertwining, capturing the title’s essence of recovering from a beforehand blissful interval — and now encountering a extra lonesome actuality. The manufacturing basically stirs all through, and one can really feel echoes of emotive isolation inside. “I had been dwelling alone in an remoted home on the Oregon Coast after I wrote and recorded this and the opposite songs from this batch of recordings,” Fleet says. “It was a darkish and lonely time, however mandatory.”
We’re excited to listen to what’s forthcoming from the brand new mission, with “Dream Hangover” representing the primary of a number of upcoming releases from Dream Our bodies.
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This and different tracks featured this month could be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Rising Singles’ Spotify playlist.
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