Allegories Craft an Ethereal, Style-Bending Soundscape on “DREAMCRUSHER”
Experimental indie-pop duo Allegories proceed their genre-melding resurgence with “DREAMCRUSHER,” a dreamy and ethereal single that displays on ambition, disillusionment, and inventive rebirth.
Initially conceived as a easy ukulele sketch, “DREAMCRUSHER” took on a lifetime of its personal via Allegories’ unorthodox inventive course of. With out listening to any melody or lyrics, Jordan Mitchell constructed a wholly new instrumental world from Adam Bentley’s preliminary chord development. Bentley then responded with a last model that drew inspiration from each his authentic imaginative and prescient and Jordan’s atmospheric reimagining.
“I believe there’s an virtually conflicting nature to the track in each the general narrative and the sound design,” Bentley says. “This track embraces the annihilation of goals but additionally the great thing about what grows of their place.”
The monitor’s title isn’t only a poetic flourish – it’s a recurring private moniker Bentley makes use of with tongue-in-cheek self-awareness.
“I’ve jokingly referred to myself because the ‘DREAMCRUSHER,’ not as a result of I’m cynical, however due to my very own outsized objectives and dealing with others who additionally chase wildly formidable goals,” he explains. “The track holds each the devastation and the quiet hope that one thing much more magical may emerge.”
A synth-drenched mix of dream-pop and experimental digital, “DREAMCRUSHER” is each mournful and transcendent. The result’s a sonic meditation on the need of beginning over and the hope that may be present in inventive renewal.