TL;DR:


• Listen to lead single "Aku Cemas" on your preferred streaming service →
• Pre-save new album Singapore Dreaming on Spotify →
• Watch the music video for "Aku Cemas" →
• Pre-order Singapore Dreaming, out via Topshelf Records on June 11th, 2025 (digital, vinyl, cd, cassette)
• Recommended if you like: Wishy, The Sundays, Life Without Buildings, Superchunk, Ulrika Spacek, melodious indie-pop wonder

In less than a ten year span, Subsonic Eye have established a deep catalog across jangle and indie pop spectra. On their 2023 album All Around You, the Singaporean five-piece refined their signature snappy hooks with a renewed appreciation for the natural world's entanglement with their urban milieu. Ever enraptured by nature and their surroundings, Subsonic Eye have dedicated much of their music to celebrations of their environment.

p: Crispin Tan

Their fifth album, Singapore Dreaming, centers their hometown through a more focused lens. Where All Around You comprised a space to sit with the complex feelings inspired by the intense world we inhabit, Singapore Dreaming is that intense world itself -- Subsonic Eye's interpretation of their high energy urban context refracted through straight-to-the-point, poppy, ergonomic songs tinged with tension that could explode at a moment's notice.

Despite the newly honed vision, Singapore Dreaming still has all of Subsonic Eye's signature elements: spellbinding walls of tone, hooky riffs, zippy rhythms, and punches in the perfect place -- all led by singer Nur Wahidah's dreamlike voice, whose vaporous and velvety character always makes the layers whole.

"There's a warmth to Subsonic Eye's boisterous noise pop: Their bright guitar tones have en electrifying glint, while the reverb heavy, shoegaze fuzz conjures the prickling sensation of sunlight on skin." -Pitchfork

Singapore Dreaming's lead single "Aku Cemas" picks apart feelings of anxious inadequacy inspired by our capitalist setting before balancing the scale with a reverent climax in which Wahidah proclaims "come get a hold of yourself / the world's not ending / you're not dying."

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watch the "Aku Cemas" music video →

or listen to the song on Amazon Music | Apple Music | Bandcamp | SoundCloud | Spotify | Tidal | Youtube

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Subsonic Eye vocalist Nur Wahidah writes this about the themes of the song and how they connect to her personal life:

"When I was unemployed for a couple of months, I was feeling this restless feeling. I couldn't sit still but it felt like I had to. I would apply for 20 jobs a day and go back to watching movies on my laptop. It was a funny feeling - I finally had the time to do whatever I wanted. I could read, knit, craft, cycle. Like when I was employed, I looked forward to doing my favorite things during my free time. But this feeling of doom and uselessness just clouded over everything. I didn't have the appetite to do things I loved because of the overwhelming anxiety over being unemployed. I didn't want to be free again, I just wanted a job."

Singapore Dreaming tracklist:

1. Aku Cemas →
2. Why Am I Here
3. Sweet
4. My iPhone Screen
5. Overgrown
6. Lost
7. Being Productive
8. Situations
9. Brace
10. Blue Mountains