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World On Fire

Glaring - Blood (Glorious Din Cover)

SF Bay Area textural pop group Torrey delve deep into a translucent dreamworld on their self-titled sophomore album. Bending classic shoegaze, rainy day indie rock sounds, and 90s alt rock flair into more intricate forms, the band uses these guitar-forward songs to shape-shift between gentle drifting and noisy breakthroughs. Some touchstones might include Lush, Drop Nineteens, Cocteau Twins and The Breeders, but Torrey have a deft grasp of their craft and a forward-thinking studio approach that places them very much in the NOW. Singles like "No Matter How," "Bounce" and "Moving" are pure 2024 and place Torrey firmly alongside like-minded groups like Seablite, Mo Dotti, Winter and Alvvays who are enlivening a similar set of inspirations.

It's fitting that Torrey's most masterfully crafted album is also their first for Slumberland. As the album plays out, it perfectly arranges contradictory expressions of angst and tenderness, exaltation and melancholy, restlessness and acceptance. These songs are obsession-worthy for any dream pop enthusiast, with Torrey managing to call on some
familiar spirits for guidance while sounding more like themselves than ever before.

Torrey

Torrey - No Matter How

Wait, are you going to be there for me
Wait, are you going to break so easily
You feel it on the ground, clutching now
Wait for my sign, I can see you bowing out 
If you stitch me up right here 
Will I be sewn into your fears and your ego
Your doubts and my fears cutting me down to size
Your doubts are sewn deep into my wounds
In December we’ll go there 
But the summers will drive you crazy
Now you’re all dressed up 
Did you want to look pretty for me
I’ll be the one who stuck it out
I’ll be the one for you

Embroidered

Naughty Americans

In the Room

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I Prefer Adventure

Midnight Drive

vhs dream is Matthew Hosking and Mayzie Wallen
Written by vhs dream and Dave Turner
Performed by vhs dream

Recorded and Mixed by Matthew Hosking
Mastered by Guy Louis
Artwork and Design by Matthew Hosking


COME AROUND

Fragments by Bootblacks

Produced by Hillary Johnson, Panther MacDonald, Barrett Hiatt
Mixed by Hillary Johnson, Seaside Lounge Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Mastered by James Cruz, Zeitgeist Sound Studios, Queens, NY
Art by Eckhard Kremers, "Morija II," 1991, acrylic on canvas
Manic Depression Records 2017
All songs copyright Bootblacks 2017

For You (Lois)

💘 indie/dreampop 💘
www.lettingupdespitegreatfaults.com

Letting Up Despite Great Faults is an American indie dreampop band from Los Angeles, CA and Austin, TX. Making their mark with their acclaimed debut album (self-titled 2009) and Untogether (2012), they carved out a little corner of the dreampop world with their take on electronic shoegaze and indiepop jangle. After taking a hiatus which songwriter Mike Lee hails as their time to "become real adults," they came back to their familiar form with IV (2022). Gearing up for their next release, Reveries, we hear them push forward and further like never before, exploring new sounds and structure with a mature patience and confidence emblematic of "real adults." Now inspired by vastly different genres from drum 'n' bass to post-punk to K-pop, their version of dreampop has become larger and simultaneously very refined. Meticulously mixed by the amazing Melina Duterte (Jay Som), the new album Reveries yet again shows Lee wearing it all on his sleeve.

Touring U.S. in Spring 2025 and Asia in Summer 2025.