young prisms - Drifter (2022)

It's been already a decade since the Californian band Young Prisms released their last album. Finally, the third installment of their discography was shown to the world this year with Drifter having all of the qualities a good dream pop/shoegaze record should have.

While staying within the frames of the dreamy genres, the band decided to thematically reach the opposite of the ethereal as it "explores the tension and release that comes with bringing your head down from the clouds and making sense of the tangible entanglements that make up everyday existence". Stefanie Hodapp's beautifully airy vocals contrast the theme drastically being one of the airiest and dreamiest out there at the moment. Sounding both sweet and melancholic, they convey the message of praising the boring and the normal in your life in a surprising but effective way.

Song like Honeydew make instant shoegaze classics with the short but concise chorus and incredibly catchy melodies. But the album is fairly long and within its length can fit also moody and ballad-like parts. In those, the mellow melodies generate an incredibly ethereal soundscape on which the soft vocals paint sad and poignant stories (as is the case in Melt Away).

Drifter costs 10 USD.

Check: Honeydew 

Country: California, US

Genre: airy shoegaze

Label: Fire Talk

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