{"id":8722,"date":"2013-05-20T10:04:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T15:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/?p=8722"},"modified":"2013-05-20T12:41:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T17:41:45","slug":"album-review-pacificuv-after-the-dream-you-are-awake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/2013\/05\/20\/album-review-pacificuv-after-the-dream-you-are-awake\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: pacificUV &#8211; <i>After the Dream You Are Awake<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/pacificuv_after_the_dream.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-8723\" alt=\"pacificuv_after_the_dream\" src=\"http:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/pacificuv_after_the_dream-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/pacificuv_after_the_dream-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/pacificuv_after_the_dream-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/pacificuv_after_the_dream-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/pacificuv_after_the_dream-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/pacificuv_after_the_dream.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>After the Dream You Are Awake <\/i>is the fourth full album from Georgia-based indie-group pacificUV. As its title suggests, the album, which appropriately fuses mellow shoegaze, psychedelic dreamsound, and experimental space-rock, is a study in the lingering sensations and emotions after one awakens from a long, unusual dream. And it succeeds in producing a wondrously beautiful, lasting soundscape.<\/p>\n<p>Opening with an indelibly bright, stratospheric swirl of sound, \u201c24 Frames\u201d drops into moody, minimalist vocal refrains while reverbed drums strike with propulsive energy. A tremulously high-wailing synth and sonic flutters eventually overtake and establish the album\u2019s slightly psychedelic dream-setting. The mellow \u201cChristine\u201d aches with love-marred vocals, poetic lyrics and a gentle trickle of accompanying guitars. The synth-swallowed sounds of \u201cEyes Without a Face\u201d and \u201cRussians\u201d flow with nocturnal yearning and lysergic lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>Latter tracks carry touches of the minimalistic moodiness characterized by The xx, particularly in the dreamy drops of \u201cI Think It\u2019s Coming.\u201d But a merging of style and form comes in the very last two tracks \u201cAmerican Lovers\u201d and \u201cI Wanna Be You.\u201d The former carries something classic about its bright, synth-rock sound, and though the vocals imbue it with low-energy, it conveys a sense of life\u2019s mysterious and magical progression. The latter crafts vast spaces, stratospheric lyrics, and swelling shines while incorporeal voices yearn for that unachievable unison of spirit. Both are wrought with emotive complexity, and demonstrate the power of the band\u2019s sound. But as the lyrics tell us, the \u201cdream won\u2019t last\u201d and we must move on knowing that, as with a fading dream-sensation, we won\u2019t be able to carry around with us the feelings imparted by this wondrous sound forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Dream You Are Awake is the fourth full album from Georgia-based indie-group pacificUV. As its title suggests, the album, which appropriately fuses mellow shoegaze, psychedelic dreamsound, and experimental space-rock, is a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":8723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1839,1836,1838,1837,635,1835,1067,1039,1271],"class_list":["post-8722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-review","tag-after-the-dream-you-are-awake","tag-athens","tag-dream","tag-georgia","tag-music-3","tag-pacificuv","tag-psychedelic","tag-reviews","tag-shoegaze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8725,"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722\/revisions\/8725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}