Office Culture sing of love, sadness, and city life on Big Time Things , buoyed by a four-piece combination that locks in with a unique brand of art-pop.
Angelique Sanders / Whatever s Clever James Weber Jr. started writing the songs that would make up Keen Dreams debut album after reading Daisy Hildyard s
The Second Body. The book-length essay makes the case that humans have one corporeal body and one less tangible body, something more spectral. It is not, by all accounts, a book that reaches simple conclusions â bewilderment struggling towards expression, according to one review â which in itself might help to explain the dreamy and uncanny nature of Weber Jr. s songs on a record that borrows its name and structure from Hildyard s book.
ADVERTISEMENT Keen Dreams, completed by drummer Eric Martinez and bassist Shana Applewhite, make sprawling, dreamy pop music that echoes and maybe most importantly wanders around. The trio experiments with new age improvisation and the sort of spacey indie rock melodies mastered by bands like Spiritualized.