TL;DR:


• listen to Singapore Dreaming →
• Watch the "Aku Cemas" music video on Youtube →
• Order Singapore Dreaming → (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.

"Rich and tuneful songs that will likely resonate with anyone who ever fell in love with a song played through a sunburst Jazzmaster and a fully loaded pedalboard." -Treble Zine

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." On album closer "Blue Mountains," Subsonic Eye offer a reprieve from capitalist dread with a breath of fresh air inspired by a visit to the Australian mountain range. Of her experience, Wahidah writes, "when I'm out in nature, I'm in awe, I'm speechles, I'm humbled -- I'm student in the most beautiful classroom that has ever existed."

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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