Dead Leaf Echo premiered their new single yesterday.
“Kingmaker” is 4 minutes of lush, shoegazey dreampop that sounds ready to ride a wave of late-80s/early-90s nostalgia that hasn’t fully blossomed yet.
I did some guitar and vocal tracking on this record over at Strange Weather and John Fryer (NIN, Cocteau Twins, Depeche Mode) mixed it at his studio in Norway.
Shoegaze and dreampop elements have been cropping up in more and more music over the past several years, but DLE are steeped in it.
They have been since long before sounds like these became a fresh new meme for bloggerati-bound undergrads. If you’re a fan of those genres, you should definitely check it out.