Earlier this month we introduced As Far As the Eye Can See, the new album from New York’s Van Chamberlain, with ‘Miracle Drug’. The first single of a planned ‘waterfall release’ which will see songs unveiled each month until the entire record is available, the track sat “somewhere between the dreamy haze of dream pop and something more jangly and bright,” as we put it, allowing for a sound as confident as it was heartfelt. “The result is decidedly bittersweet in nature,” we continued, “a nascent crush brought to life in all of its longing and shimmering potential. Where the line between melancholy and possibility is porous and the world itself feels new.”
Wasting no time, Van Chamberlain are already back with the album’s second single, ‘Solutions’, and the song highlights a slightly different dimension to their sound. Where the freshness and promise of ‘Miracle Drug’ carried an inherently hopeful, forward-looking vibe, ‘Solutions’ is more languid and ruminative. A song delivered from the mire of the present, dreaming of a fresh start that’s not yet quite in reach and all the more alluring for it. “I only need a chance to change / a thing or two,” as Chamberlain sings in the opening verse, “and I’ll be on my way driving / back to you.” A romantic vision of a possible future that’s so compelling it carries an urge to scrunch up your life and begin anew.
the more it takes
one more and i might break
the less it makes
solutions for anything
control alt & delete up til now
Watch the video below, directed, filmed and edited by Dinah Deming, featuring art by Michael Powers and further creative input from Ricky Lewis:
‘Solutions’ is out now and available from Bandcamp. As Far As the Eye Can See is coming soon.