Trentemller – Dreamweaver

Description

Featuring 10 tracks that traverse Trentemllers many musical strengths, Dreamweaver represents an obvious artistic leap, treading new ground while retaining the overall plot. Tracks featuring vocals come courtesy of of Icelands Disa, who has been in Trentemllers fold since the Memoria tour. After astonishing audiences with her own, reimagined versions of songs from the catalog, she contributed to two singles in 2022: Into The Silence, and a cover of their Cops On Our Tail, originally by Trentemllers fellow travelers, The Raveonettes.Dreamweaver‘s nylon strinled opening track, and first single from the album, A Different Light, contains many of Trentemllers trademarks: exploring dichotomies, musical shadowplay, Nordic frigidity, and warm waves. It opens the door for the steady, hypnotic Nightfall, with its tetherless vocal, wistful guitars, and early morning desert chill. The third track in the opening trifecta, Dreamweavers finds its footing with a percussive soft trot, which starts after what feels like a shortwave radio scan in search of the right chords, eventually dialing in a weightless voice. Ostensibly keeping a ruminative pace with the previous two tracks, the song and, by extension, album soon opens up as the rest of the elements drop into place with a grand, luxurious burst.

Dreamweaver is about to enter its next phase. With the hatch blown off of the portal, the noisy I Give My Tears, driven by its glissed and fuzzy bass line, pours into the void. Its followed by its sibling, the most chaotic track on Dreamweaver, Behind My Eyes. Arriving as a piece of noise rock pandemonium, Behind My Eyes, cant be contained in its plush vault. A whip-crack snare and convulsing guitars smash against each other in the songs verse chamber. The tension builds, as the particles collide, pushing past the point of critical mass, kicking off the chain reaction which is the chorus. At times it harkens back to the pro-to-gaze tracks that gave birth to dream pop, at others it newly defines what that is. Theres no time to contemplate it, though, as the song disintegrates in a microphonic feedback instant.

A respite follows with the somnambulistic pair of Hollow and Empty Beaches. Then, a moment of intensity returns as the soaring textures and tribal drum bursts of In A Storm take control, before being taken out with the ambient slo-core of Winters Ghost and Closure. This diptych wraps up an album which certainly feels on-script for Trentemller, but is also much more psychedelic than previous offerings.Dreamweaver will be released on Trentemllers own In My Room label. (via Label)

Label: In My Room
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Crystal Clear
Released: 2024
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Alternative Rock, Dream Pop, Shoegaze, Post-Punk

File under: Shoegaze / Post-Rock