Artist
Label
White Poppy
Sound Of Blue
Not Not Fun
/
2023
LP (blue)
19.99/24.99
NNF 410 LP
Incl. double-sided insert
Incl. VAT plus shipping / Orders from outside the EU are exempt from VAT
Tracklist
1Apathy
2Happy
3Sound Of Blue
4One More Night
5Wiser
6Time
7Melancholic Serenity
8Inside
9Paradise (Make My Own)

From the grey-skied isles and horse farms of British Columbia comes the second volume of Crystal Dorval aka White Poppy’s “Paradise Gardens” trilogy: Sound Of Blue. Originally conceived back in 2016, the album was then recorded, finessed, abandoned, resurrected, overdubbed, and finally mixed into nine refinements of daydream shoegaze and therapeutic pop, born from bedroom epiphanies and long winters of the heart.

From slowdive reverie (“Apathy,” “Melancholic Serenity”) and color wheel psychedelia (“Time”) to spiral chorale (“Happy”) and finger-picked drift (“Wiser”), Dorval’s songcraft moves between escape and acceptance, tracing delicate melodies from undercurrents of loss, light, and solitude. It’s music for memory gardens and pastel horizons, dreaming of bliss and distance, but bound to the here and now: “Thinking about leaving here forever / thinking about leaving here for good / but I keep holding on for something / hoping that it could get better than this / what’s one more night?”