Tamarin

«Tamaryn has been crafting gothic dreampop and soaring shoegaze records for the better part of a decade. With each subsequent release she has both expanded her sonic palette and playfully deconstructed it, the project itself an iconoclastic exploration involving a variety of collaborators and genre-melding that has spanned three previous albums, an EP and a handful of singles. While 2015’s lush Cranekiss marked a synth-inflected left turn for the artist, Dreaming the Dark pushes her sound even further. It’s simultaneously her hardest, darkest record and still somehow her most accessible, landing squarely in the sweet spot between between pop and post-punk.

Produced by and co-written with Jorge Elbrecht (Ariel Pink, Frankie Rose, Wild Nothing, Gang Gang Dance), the nine tracks on Dreaming the Dark represent an emotional and aesthetic evolution, the front and center guitar washes and foggy ennui of her earlier records giving way to crystalline beats, synths and lyrical narratives aimed directly at the jugular. While the record still occasionally mines a 4AD-adjacent musical palette—all manner of Cocteau Twins gauze, her Kate Bush meets Tears for Fears level vocality and melodic guitar lines that might have swirled off of a mid-80’s Cure record— Dreaming also pack a hefty emotional wallop. The album flirts with the aesthetics of classic 80’s synthpop while playing at the fringes of hip hop production and forward-thinking electronica.»

«Dreaming The Dark» out March 22nd 2019 on Dero Arcade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UU1n4RPsD8
https://tamaryn.bandcamp.com/

Some Ember

De Berlin, mais d’origine californienne, le duo de dreampop Some Ember arrive avec deux albums dans une biographie musicale qui expérimente un spectre entre le synthpop et l’environnement. Dylan Travis compose et produit avec Nina Chase une pop de résonances éthérées et de séquences spatiales qui se développe entre cassettes et deux disques depuis 2014. Les paroles vocales de Travis sont reliées aux voix les plus personnelles et idylliques d’un genre forgé dans les années 80 et cela n’a cessé de produire de la beauté en abondance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR9pylnvY_0
http://someember.bandcamp.com/