Landing at what the press release describes as “the intersection of ambition and approachability,” the Facing sound pushes dream pop to new ground, embracing the ethereal richness of the genre without ever being beholden to its more restrictive conventions. The result is often as ominous as it is alluring, crafting decidedly cinematic soundscapes which swirl and sweep and screw in strange directions.

As single ‘Undiu’ shows, a certain sense of dissonance is present too, the trio unafraid to add abrasive textures to an often pillowy style, and thus the sound expands the meaning of dream within dream pop. One not always as grand or romantic as the genre suggests, but rather closer to the lived experience of our nighttime wandering. Ambiguous, suggestive, opaque, and ultimately held together by a curious intuitive logic which exists somewhere off behind our conscious reasoning.

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