NToM #45
Dream Pop, Indie Folk, Alternative, Crooning Soul
This week’s set feels cinematic — hazy dream-pop, lush folk reveries, slow-burn indie urgency, and moody crooner pop that glows like twilight. One foot in dreamland, one in the dirt.
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New Album
Poliça – Dreams Go
Top Tracks – Carlines, Creepin’, Dreams Go
Genre – Electronic, Dream Pop
My take – Poliça return to their misty synth cocoon with something softer and more spectral. The beats still pulse, but they feel like heartbeat echoes in a fog — intimate, nocturnal, and quietly majestic. If you like Hundred Waters or early Grimes before the chaos, this one floats right in that space.
New Album
The Barr Brothers – Let it Hiss
Top Tracks – Let it Hiss, Naturally, Upsetter
Genre – Indie Folk, Americana/Canadiana
My take – The Barr Brothers keep threading that line between folk intimacy and widescreen rock. Let It Hiss has dusty slide guitars, gentle harmonies, and that unmistakable Montréal warmth. Imagine The War on Drugs and Calexico jamming on a front porch while a storm rolls in over the lake.
New (to me) Album
Cuffed Up – All You Got
Top Tracks – Finer Things, Small Fry, Little Wins, The Feeling
Genre – Indie Rock, Post-Punk
My take – Big catharsis energy. Think Interpol meets Wolf Alice with some grit from early Metric and throw in a splash of Smashing Pumpkins. Guitars stab and shimmer, vocals crack open, and the whole thing moves with the urgency of someone sprinting through downtown L.A. at 2 a.m.
Fave Album
Joseph of Mercury – WAVE II
Top Tracks – Keep You Around, STOP
Genre – Alt-Pop, Soul, R&B
My take – Sleek, romantic, and just a touch tragic. Joseph of Mercury layers his throwback voice over synths that shimmer like streetlights in rain. Gorgeous melancholy crooning for late-night romantics.
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