DREAM, IVORY Share New Single "Tangerine Dream" & Announce Tour w/ Wisp
NEW ALBUM WHEN YOU COME BACK I HAVE SO MUCH TO TELL YOU OUT JULY 18TH
Los Angeles duo Dream, Ivory recently announced their new album, When You Come Back I Have So Much To Tell You, due out July 18th. Today they’ve shared their latest single, the narcotic and hypnotizing “Tangerine Dream” and announced a Fall tour supporting breakout shoegaze artist Wisp. Tickets are on-sale this Friday, June 26th at 10am local HERE. On the single, they explain the track is “a song we wrote about someone who is self-deprecating in all facets of life. They're at the creek withering at their own reflection, feeling both violence and sadness. The 'orange hues' cast by the sun represent the darkness of shadows one brings into the rest of their life without facing them.”
WATCH “TANGERINE DREAM” OFFICIAL VIDEO
Growing up in Southern California, brothers Christian and Louie Baello were each other’s universe. “We experienced the world through the same frame,” Christian says. That frame was heavily influenced by the number of times they moved, their identity as first generation Filipino Americans, and their parents’ love of music. Enlisted in piano lessons by their dad at a young age (“it wasn’t a choice,” Louie jokes), the Baello brothers cut their teeth covering the music their parents were raised on, everything from ABBA and the Bee Gees to the Beatles. Christian helms the production on Dream, Ivory tracks while Louie is the primary lyricist/vocalist, but every song they make is a true collaboration. Music has always been central to their sense of self-perception, but it’s just one of the brothers’ many talents. Together, they make all of Dream, Ivory’s artwork, videos, and visuals, it’s working: They have over 450 million streams across their catalogue and their debut single “welcome goodbye” is RIAA certified gold.
When You Come Back I Have So Much To Tell You follows Dream, Ivory’s 2022 debut LP, About a Boy, an album that interrogates difficult topics surrounding mental illness and suicidality with grace and conviction. When You Come Back… incubates a distinctive period in the brothers’ lives defined by dislocation and addiction. When their parents decided to move back to the Philippines, Louie moved to Los Angeles to live with Christian and his girlfriend, Lilia Shibuya, who contributed writing to the album. Though the brothers have been prolific since their teenage years, they stagnated as cohabitants. “We just didn’t really give a fuck about creating in that moment, there was just no inspiration in our lives,” Christian says. “Instead of writing, we’d get shitfaced drunk. It was bad. We’d record a riff, then take a shot.”
The brothers attribute that lack of inspiration to their early achievements. At 19, raking in tens of thousands of listeners on a single track felt like a major accomplishment, but the more Dream, Ivory grew, the benchmark for success leveled up. “There’s so much riding on our old shit, coming up with something new felt like going to the fucking moon,” Christian says. The moon being far, Christian spiraled. “I was drinking so much and getting caught by my brother, my girlfriend,” he says. “I was kicked out of our place.” But bottoming out eventually renewed his sense of purpose. Christian got sober, moved back in with his loved ones, and a songwriting breakthrough expanded their imagination of what Dream, Ivory could be.
Tour Dates
August 22 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club *
August 23 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer *
August 24 - Boston, MA @ Royale Boston *
August 25 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall Grand Ballroom *
September 6 - Toronto, ON @ The Concert Hall *
September 7 - Detroit, MI @ El Club *
September 8 - Columbus, OH @ A&R Music Bar *
September 10 - Chicago, IL @ Metro *
September 11 - Saint Paul, MN @ Amsterdam Bar & Hall *
September 13 - Denver, CO @ Marquis *
September 16 - Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre *
September 18 - Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl *
September 19 - Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall *
September 21 - San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom *
September 23 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre *
September 24 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre *
September 26 - Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom *
September 27 - El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace *
September 29 - Dallas, TX @ The Factory in Deep Ellum *
September 30 - Austin, TX @ Mohawk *
October 1 - Houston, TX @ Numbers *
October 3 - Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse *
October 4 - Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall *
October 6 - Nashville, TN @ The Basement East *
October 7 - Saint Louis, MO @ Off Broadway Nightclub *
October 8 - Kansas City, MO @ recordBar *
* w/ Wisp
WATCH OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR PREVIOUS SINGLES
“ALL GOOD,” “SOLAR ECLIPSE,” “AT ZERO” & “LOST ANGELES”
Inspired by anime and J-pop, lead single “Solar Eclipse” chronicles a romance between the sun and moon over incandescent dream pop. The track is preceded by “At Zero,” a blistering and catchy song Alt Press praised, writing “their strongest and most alluring, traces the roots of shoegaze, wobbly alt-rock, and the murk of SoundCloud uploads.” Their first single of the year, “Lost Angeles,” tackles addiction head on over sugary guitars and auto-tuned vocals. The new singles follow their Jay Som collaboration “Milk,” which was praised by Stereogum, Consequence, Paste, Nylon and more.
During the SoundCloud rap boom, Christian and Louie started uploading their own DIY offerings to the internet, but that short-lived rap project soon evolved into Dream, Ivory. Largely inspired by shoegaze, surf rock, and shapeshifting artists like Damon Albarn, the brothers quickly amassed an organic fanbase online.
Love, or the promise of it, has guided the Baello brothers over vast emotional distances. The sense of longing that inspired the title runs through the album and is felt most acutely on “Sometimes,” another Shibuya co-write about unrequited love. “Felt the wind in Anaheim/ Like a touch you left behind/ Sometimes I just want it to stay,” Louie sings over a watery guitar part that sounds distinctly tied to the brothers’ home state. “Missing you is like snow in California.” Earnest and pining, “Sometimes” distills that yearning title, When You Come Back…, beautifully. “You could even apply the title to the distance between your current self and your past self,” Louie muses. “There’s no one way to interpret it.”
When You Come Back I Have So Much To Tell You Album Art | Hi-Res Download
Tracklist:
01 I Don’t Even Know You
02 Bleed
03 At Zero
04 Orange
05 Bullet Train
06 All Good
07 Solar Eclipse
08 Sometimes
09 Not The Best Idea
10 Lost Angeles
11 Plastic Song
12 Nancy’s Knife
13 Mayday
14 Tangerine Dream
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