Release: Dreams

Enough Ft. Allanah Maarteen

It's been said that we don't remember most of the dreams we have on any given night, which is perhaps why we impart so much weight and meaning on the ones we do remember. The symbols our subconscious projects onto the back of our eyelids could be prophetic, or they could be answers to long contemplated dilemmas, if only we could decipher their meaning, if only we could sift through the haze and absurdity and illogic. "I've got a dream of heaven," coos Allanah Maarteen on "Dreams," as Croom's instrumental establishes the dreamscape in airy electronics and anxious percussive tonal bursts, completing the phrase with "it looks a lot like this place," a statement that comes with the hint of a question about itself. What does it all mean? That the heaven glimpsed in dreams may look like here but it isn't this place and one gets the sense there are lots of other places that were similar enough too, but not quite there. When the chorus opens up like some celestial collaboration between The Cranberries and Yaz, the dream itself isn't any more clear, nor is heaven's actual location but one thing is: dreams don't need meaning or prophecy to matter, it's the impossible freedom they grant, the weightlessness, that makes them so memorable, more than any holdrum advice about everyday stress and troubles ever could.