Sonatore's Dream Boy EP is a brilliant, shiny object for my senses. It's soaked in a glittering dew of fantasy and originality. The music is head to toe an electronic labor of love and yet it is romantic and pastoral and it ultimately felt like an organic experience to me. I'm not one that is easily persuaded to indulge my more whimsical side, but with just five tracks, I was completely won over. If you're bringing love for ’80s synth, indie rock and electro pop you cannot go wrong here. This high tech sound comes from Nashville, Tennessee and I can say with confidence I did not see that coming. I have heard a lot of cool music come out of Nashville, but nothing quite like this.
The first track "Midnight Man" is my favorite and may be one of my favorite introductions to a band of all time. This track is so green and lush as it builds. They managed to capture the chaotic noise of a forest in full swing in the evening. Heading on down the line with tracks like "Dream Boy" and "Agents of Love" things get a little more brick and mortar. I can now picture the skyscrapers and bustling traffic. The music captures this imagery and then slows it down a bit just so you can take a second to breathe it all in. "Colors & Sounds" builds an interesting bridge between settings. This one has a great indie rock feel tucked away behind the electro curtain and I loved it. The final track is "Space Turbulence" and it rounds the collection of settings quite nicely. As one may expect, you get to go a little off planet with this one or at least get some distance between you and whatever is bugging you. This is one more on the psychedelic spectrum. I like how with just five songs we get to go to so many places. The goal of this EP was to evoke a dreamlike sensation and I would say that mission has been accomplished with great help from the production. Sonatore at its core is Alex Red, a musician, painter and oneironaut (expand your vocabulary and look that one up, the music will make so much more sense once you do). It doesn't shock me to know that this EP was a home recording project, but I am impressed with the polish of the finished product. Red worked hand in hand with Chance Cook on the mixing and mastering process and their good work is very noticeable. Red likes to indulge in music that resembles noise and this is a tricky art form to pull of properly. Luckily, attention to detail has made Red and Cook's efforts a poster child in my book for how to do noise music. There is a decisive direction applied to finely crafted layers of sounds; this direction cradled everything into a nice, even flow. This album has so many applications for me personally. It's rare music can be both unwinding and productive for me, but that's where Dream Boy landed for me and I couldn't be happier to be aware of its existence.
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