Listening to their sunny, beachy sound, you'd probably never guess that Dreambeaches are from chilly Buffalo New York. Here's a pleasant track from their most recent EP for your Sunday morning and afternoon pleasures.
RIYL: Rooney, Walter Etc., Nada Surf, Ben Kweller
Every day’s another shot
But all I do is fuck it up
Screaming cause I’ve got it too good to cry
I put the medicine inside my head
Apologize for all the things I said
Girl it takes guts to just surviveI gotta oh, I gotta find another way
I’m learning to live
I’m trying to be better
I’m learning to give
But I don’t know if I’m a giver
Kristine Flaherty was raised in Illinois and started making music while a psych major at Stanford. It kind of blows my mind that she started out as a hip-hop artist and still describes herself as a low-fi hip-hop-rock hybrid because I first heard "Blood in the Cut" last year and thought it was a pretty lame but solidly alt-rock anthem. Come to find out her make-it-up-as-you-go, true indie cred (leaving behind 60 songs written while under contract at RCA), and that her fans range from Taylor Swift to Dan Reynolds, who signed her to his small imprint and put her on tour currently (with Imagine Dragons). Anyway, this single reached my ears this week (from Everywhere is Somewhere, same album as "Blood in the Cut") and I can't believe how much more nuanced and enjoyable it is. Or how she slipped my notice before all this!
RIYL: Bishop Briggs, Lewis Del Mar, Meg Myers, Grieves
So the good man said
Turns out God is dead
We’re on our own this time
To work out what is yours and mine
No reward to being kind
No quick fix for the day, you’ll find
Welcome to the spiritual dark age
Posting Childcare yesterday (with it's former TKAK member) prompted me to check and behold I was rewarded with a long-awaited new release. It's another darkly upbeat track like their best off their debut. I love how percussive and urgent it gets midway. Right now they have plans to tour native UK early next year and my fingers are crossed they'll be invited back to SXSW.
RIYL: Frightened Rabbit, Cold War Kids, Foals, The National
