deary – “Seabird”

After three years with tireless shoegaze champions Sonic Cathedral, London trio deary have announced they are leaving the label. In an Instagram post, they thanked Slabel head Nathaniel Cramp for everything he’d done for them and enumerated all their releases under the marque, including two proper EPs – 2023’s deary and 2024’s Aurelia – and […]

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 […]

Parannoul – “연말 다짐”

Happy New Year, not only from me, but also from Parannoul who rang in 2026 with a new single. “연말 다짐” – which translates to “Year-end Resolutions” – showed up online on New Year’s Day via an Instagram story with the caption, “Happy 2026 – I Hope To Achieve Something This Year”. To imply that […]

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) […]