Tracklisting:

Typhoon – Rorschach
Cloud – Two Hands Bound
Trust Fall – do it right
Wooing – In Colour
Tree House – Nonsense
Long Neck – Milky Way
Sara Renberg – Take the Summer Off
Special Moves – Half and Half
Lying Down – Betty and Barney
Pastel – Close
Monarch Mtn – Saint in Armor II
Doomking – I Laid the Prairies to Rest
vierzig skizzen – passwords
Old Robes – The Spider and the Spectator
Jeremy Squires – Gift
Bill Vuono – Think of Me (feat. Earl McVeigh)
Kraków Loves Adana – Rapture
Cool American – Focus
Bucolic – Blue Tree
There’s Talk – Give It Up
Airium + Double Honey – Concrete House Of Dreams And Pools
The Saxophones – Just You
Jelani Sei – LVNDR TWN
Why Dogs Why – Linus

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There’s a volatility to opener ‘Tear World’, which is all moody psych vibes and bursts of squealing guitar. The song was inspired by the documentary film Blackfish, written from the perspective of a whale kept in captivity, outlining the personal hell we have devised for these animals for the sake of our own entertainment. The track ends with some pretty lonely sounding whale calls, which adds extra weight to the lines from earlier in the song.

“Do you think the children can hear our screams?
It’s enough to make their ears bleed”

‘In Colour’ opens in the calm of the aftermath, although pretty quickly perks up and morphs into a swaying pop song. But there’s an uneasy edge here too, due to the fact of the song’s equally interesting subject matter. This one leaves the whales behind, and instead focuses on LSD experiments carried out on housewives in the 50s. Everything sounds kinda drunk and woozy, and there’s something almost creepy about the repeated line “I wish I could talk in technicolour.”

Final track ‘Two Can Keep a Secret’ is perhaps lyrically the most focused and personal on the record, at times gentle like the bedroom pop of Frankie Cosmos. But things are elevated by bouts of bombastic psychedelic instrumentation, the story of the end of a friendship distorted with a weird emotion.

You can get Daydream Time Machine now via on 7″ vinyl or download via Ba Da Bing Records.

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