Tweet Review: Dreams In Static

Dream In Static "Serene Poetic" (Dreams in Static/Shemspeed, Jan. 26th)

"If On A Winter" I'm listening digitally, but can still feel the vinyl essence oozing from these beats. A perfect mixture of nostalgia and futurism.

"The Ineffable" Dream In Static in a perfect name for this duo... waves of echoing guitar over controlled and measured beats... who doesn't dream that way?

"Day/Night" Fractured and distant, Dugans (the guitarist) splinters the track with his skill and inventiveness. These two have a clear and vibrant connection.

"Notes From Under" Orb like dreams build into an electro spasm. Each track is a new castle of sound built to explore sonic possibilities.

"Invisible Man" A fusion of gritty surf guitar and tribal elements. The collision continues.

"The Border/The Sun" You can hear Dugan presenting the guitar solos as if it were a lead vocalist. It's not new to instrumental music but Diwon's beats make it fresh.

"Theta" I wonder if these tracks were created in the same studio or in parts. Beats from Brooklyn/guitar from Texas.

"Magic Carpet" You can feel the rhyme soar as if a carpet. Diwon beats cheesy electro groove on this one.

"Heartbreaking Work" You never want your work to be heartbreaking, back breaking maybe, but not heartbreaking.

"American Pastoral" Side B... still dreaming, but slightly darker... adrift in forest blanket with powder.

"Befallen" I want to fall and embrace the snow, but the fear of the cold and wet consequence stops me in my tracks.

"Kingdom Come" In the clearing I see a rather large creature comprised mostly of hair and snow. He is breathing clouds and shooting rainbows beams from his eyes.

"Lost/Forgotten" He wears a sign around his neck that reads, "Lost But Still Searching". Tears like jagged little ice picks penetrate the snowy ground.

"Standing in the Shadows" I walked over and the beast that I have found and he will never be lost again. We stand still and silent beneath the shadow of the pine.

"Recurrent Dreams" The danger in leaving the forest is the danger that is felt when changing anything. I name the beast Victor and vow never to leave the forest.

"Walking" Victor and I venture out through the forest and end up at the lake now frozen and as still as all life in winter. Victor punches through the ice and pulls out dinner.

"Crescent Shape" Under the slightest moonlight, Victor's starts a fire with his rainbow lazers and it glows with red and blue and purple until the sun returns.

"Murmured Rhymes" There is always a choice, a complicated twist of fate that launches life onto a whole different coarse. Victor's dreamed of leaving the forest to pursue a career in hip hop.

"Eighty-Six" One morning I awoke, cold, the fire gone and all that was left of Victor was a cryptic note. "Peace Bro, Born to Spit"

"A Farewell Too" I leave the forest I said I never would and search the nations clubs for Victor... I am MC Snowball.

"Disquietude" Finally in "Hotlanta" I find beast on stage but something is different. Change is born in the eyes of dreamers and realized in the eyes of the faithful.

"What You Did" He didn't even recognize me... a mob people chanting his name... lost again, left to hunt.