TL;DR:


• Listen to lead single "Being Productive" on your preferred streaming service →
• Pre-save new album Singapore Dreaming on Spotify →
• Watch the "Being Productive" ~visualizer~ on Youtube →
• 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

On the last single from the album "Being Productive", the band continues to swim in a pool of subtle earworm melody, slowly billowing percussion, and airy guitar flourishes that scratch a specific itch in your brain.

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Subsonic Eye - "Being Productive" (visualizer) →


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 song's themes:

"This idea of 'being productive' has always been challenging for me. When I was unemployed, and I was doing the things that I love in my free time (which was like 90 percent of my day), it felt like I was being unproductive despite the fact that these were fulfilling things. In a capitalist way, reading, knitting, stitching just wasn't productive - unless I were to sell my crafts. It gave me this dread - that I was useless and lazy and that I didn't deserve the free time I had. In hindsight, it definitely helped me to process this negative idea of 'deserving a break'".

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