Pia Fraus - Empty Parks (2020) EN

Pia Fraus are an absolute legend of the airy music from Estonia. Although the over-two-decade-old band recently got at least successors under the name of Holy Motors, they are not going to silently go into the night and released first album for three years, called Empty Parks.

Their style sounds like non-pretentious twee pop with guitars and tons of dream pop atmosphere added. That's why their songs are bot light and melodic as well as dense and ethereal. It's very much thanks to the vocals of course, the softness of which can barely be achieved by others, especially when they add some subtle backing vocals (as in the great Mr. Land Freezer). In fact, their music could be shown in Sèvres as a blueprint for dream rock. Soothing and delicate but also one that doesn't make you fall asleep and have some of the shoegaze pugnacity (in Paper Flower Projects for example).

Empty Parks costs 10 EUR.

Check: Mr. Land Freezer

Country: Estonia

Genre: dream pop-rock

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