Dream Girl

20 BEST BALLADS OF 2024

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ALL TOGETHER

TRACK BY TRACK

Band: THE MYSTERINES
Who: Impassioned powerhouse pop indies from
Liverpool fronted by ravishing voice Lia Metcalfe.

Track: SO LONG
From their 2nd LP
Afraid Of Tomorrows.

Haunting femme fatale tragedy.

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Artist: BILL RYDER-JONES
Who: Singer-songwriter who was co-founder
of Merseyside heroes The Coral.

Track: THIS CAN’T GO ON
Piece from his 6th solo LP
Lechyd Da.

Choral magnificence.

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Artist: NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS

Track: WILD GOD
Title song from their
18th full length.

Orchestral grandeur.

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Artist: T BONE BURNETT
Who: Legendary American songsmith and lauded producer who worked
with many greats (Elvis Costello, Robert Plant, John Mellencamp and many
more) and scored movie soundtracks all through his long career.

Track: WAITING FOR YOU
From his intimate and warm
longplayer The Other Side.

Goosebumps beauty.

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Band: FAT WHITE FAMILY
Who: Notorious UK squad, led by the charismatic
voice/songwriter/author Lias Saoudi.

Track: RELIGION FOR ONE
From their 4th and best LP
Forgiveness Is Yours.

Enigmatic tearjerker.

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Peter Murphy – photo by Jolene Siana / Boy George – photo by Dean Stockings

Artists: PETER MURPHY and BOY GEORGE
Bauhaus maestro and Culture Club voice/face.

LET THE FLOWERS GROW
The song was originally written by Boy George with its initial message being
“one of
personal acceptance about being gay. As the song developed, it took on a more expansive and universal scope with its lyrics extending beyond sexuality and embracing race, gender, creed and religion.”

Epic.

Boy George – Peter Murphy
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Artist: PETER PERRETT
Who: Former frontman of legendary British new
wavers The Only Ones (1976–1982, 2007–2017)

Track: FOUNTAIN OF YOU
Song from his 3rd solo album
The Cleansing.

Still a romantic at heart.

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Band: HEARSING
Who: Long-time American
musical friends.

Track: SILICON PRAIRIE
Opener of the tandem’s 5-track
debut EP Pastoral.

“The song incorporates themes of longing and desperation I felt in my own
life at the time that found a home in anecdotes of the desert and its characters
experiencing these feelings for reasons far removed from my reality.”

Americana tristesse in motion.

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Press photo by 📸: Dean Chalkley

Artist: RICHARD HAWLEY
Who: British master of melancholia.

Track: HEAR THAT LONESOME WHISTLE BLOW
Reverie from his 10th LP In This City They Call You Love.

Fanciful idealisation.

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Artists: THE GLASS HOURS
Who: American songwriters Brad Armstrong and Megan Barbera.
Their music blurs between Sunday afternoon country-folk and
the golden age of the 1970s.

Track: SAME OLD YOU
From their heartfelt
self-titled debut LP.

Bittersweet country magic.

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Artist: KAT KOAN
Who: Entrancing songstress
from Berlin.

Track: DREAM GIRL

Whispering nightclub sensuality.


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Artist: KIM DEAL

Track: ARE YOU MINE?
Song from her solo debut album
Nobody Loves You More.

Captivating love song for her mother.


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Band: THE BLACK KEYS

Track: ON THE GAME
Song from their 12th, bluesy dream pop,
longplayer Ohio Players. Stellar record.

Spellbinding.

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Artist: OLIVER HOHLBRUGGER
Who: Norwegian songwriter.

Track: BLACK CANVAS.

“It’s about that someone you’ll never be with and that you allow to remain
inside you as a perfect unspoiled thing, yet still you measure and hold your
real relationship up against it. It’s a dream, an illusion, an unfair fantasy.
Nothing and therefore able to be perfect.”

Yearning amorousness.

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Band: THE SMILE
Who: Two radioheads – Thom Yorke and
Jonny Greenwood and drummer Tom Skinner.

Track: Instant Psalm
Highlight from their 3rd and
best full-length Cutouts.

Vintage Thom York blues.

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Band: MGMT
Who: Psych-pop star duo
from Connecticut, US.

Track: PHRADIE’S SONG
Composition from their 5th LP
Loss Of Life.

Candlelight sensibility.


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Band: MONOSCOPES
Who: Italian psych-pop act.

Track: HEY ATLAS
Cut from their notable 2nd full
length Endcyclopedia.

Starry-eyed nostalgia.


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Artist: JOHNNY CASH
The immortal country icon.

Track: HELLO OUT THERE
One of the 11 self-penned songs from 1993 that weren’t
released until now, on the new longplayer Songwriter.

Affecting as ever.

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Artist: RINGO STARR
No pension for 85-year beatle.

Track: TIME ON MY HANDS
Starr goes country again. New LP
Look Up out early next year.

Little drummer boy.

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Band: THE VEILS
Who: New Zealand‘s guitar-pop veterans
centered around singer/songwriter Finn Andrews .

Track: THE LADDER
From new, upcoming 6th LP Asphodels
that will arrive on January 24th.

Endearing moments.

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Berlin-based Songstress KAT KOAN Entrances Again – Hear Her New Moody Reverie ‘DREAM GIRL’ Here

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

17 January 2024

Berlin-based artist KAT KOAN shines again. After releasing her magnific
debut album Lustprinzip in 2022 and three ear-catching singles last year
she has a new track out, titled DREAMGIRL.

Koan shared her thoughts about the song via her socials.

I’ll add this. Kat Koan always knows how to entrance the listener with stylishly,
graciously and also sensually designed music that stirs heart and soul. The sentiments expressed here may be familiar to many of us and can be a comforting companion on your headphones with the lights dimmed, while relaxing on your couch, dreaming of
your own dream-self.

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KAT KOAN – Berlin Songstress Drops New Romantic Single ‘DREAM GIRL’ For Charity

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13 December 2023

Berlin-based songstress KAT KOAN released her arresting debut album
LUSTPRINZIP last year. This year, she recorded/shared two rad singles,
Slow and You’re So Cool

And here’s number three, named DREAM GIRL.
A special one, as all profits from the track go to
UNICEF.

The song is co-written with Freddie Dickson and a producer friend
from Florida, Howard Merlin. Dream Girl is a romantic reverie with
near-whispering vocals by Koan, sensual as ever.

Lyrics

I wish, I wish you could have seen
that wide-eyed girl I was in my dream
you’d see her sparkle for a mile,
you’d want to dive into that smile
So light, so light her feet off the ground
she’s floating, and she is roaming around
her hair dancing free and wild in the wind
brushing against her soft bare skin
I didn’t catch her by her name but we played her little game
She was a dream girl
Made me feel as though it matters what I do, what I do
She was a dream girl
threw me a vision of a carefree life then cut me loose, cut me loose

The taste of honey on her lips
and the whole wide world at her fingertips,
her tummy full of butterflies
you’d want to dive into those eyes
you should have seen how she can play. Oh we had a grand old day
She was a dream girl
Made me feel as though it matters what I do, what I do
She was a dream girl
threw me a vision of a carefree life then cut me loose, cut me loose.

That wide-eyed girl in my dream, that wide-eyed girl in my dream

Made me feel as though it matters what i do, what I do
threw me a vision of a carefree life then cut me loose, cut me loose
She was a dream girl

Buy the song here via
Bandcamp and help children
in need in Gaza.


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