Sunday night and time for a little dream pop to push aside thoughts of Monday morning.
Dreamstruck is an independent, Copenhagen-based dream pop duo that has just released their self-titled debut album. They are both an item and musical partners, which can often be an interesting turn of events and the album does indeed deal with their relationship as well as life and love generally even though the original intention was to “write lyrics about hope for change”.
I reckon most people would prefer to listen to a fruity exchange rather than a treatise on social change and the album does suggest the difficulties they have encountered during their relationship.
They are both guitarists; Karen Krogshøj (that is possibly the least pronounceable name I have ever seen) providing the bass as well as vocals while Jonas Struck wields Fender Jazzmaster guitars, something of an Indie classic brand.
Their musical collaboration has in the past embraced film scores including the Netflix series, Ragnarock.
Their sound on this sample track and single, ‘Shattered Dreams’ is slightly unusual. The metronomic bass and fuzzy guitar work well in unison and in the early bars especially join forces with the vaguely Krautrock beat and synthesisers to suggest something transported out of the 1980s in a time capsule.
Meanwhile, Karen’s vocal contribution, alternating between sugary sweet and siren-like, is – well I hate to use the overworked word – but it is ethereal, and ever so faintly psychy.
It’s a winning combination and a great advert for the album and I advise you to play it several times in order really to get into it. It does become mesmeric after a while.
My only complaint (and for the second night on the trot) is that it is too short. Expectation builds towards a third chorus but it wasn’t to be.
The album was released on 10th January on the independent label Sound by Struck and there are limited black, white and marble vinyl copies available via Rough Trade in the UK.
Find them on:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Dreamstruck/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dreamstruck__