Impossible Dream

Description

Haley Bonars songs marry fizzy arrangements to cuttingly quotable observations about love, disappointment, identity and the curdling of youth. NPR

Recorded on analogue tape at Pachyderm Studios, Minnesota and produced by Haley Bonar and Jacob Hansen, Impossible Dream is the follow-up to 2014s Last War, which enjoyed widespread critical acclaim and featured in NPR and Village Voices Albums Of The Year lists.

Impossible Dream is Bonars most ambitious record to date. Blending scuzzy 1980s indie, new wave angularity and Spectorish reverb, her songs are, as NPR once described, as relentlessly catchy on the surface, as they are alluringly complex underneath.

Hypnotic opener Hometown shimmers like a Twin Peaks outtake, the shuddering, swirling Kismet Kill recalls Mazzy Star, while the soaring synth and pounding drums of Stupid Face summons the spirit and melody of Porcupine era Echo And The Bunnymen.

Intrepid and diverse, Impossible Dream is consistently bold, infectious and inventive.

Blue vinyl LP includes digital download code.