Oakland duo Fawning specialize in a similar strain of dream-pop to the one Julee Cruise and David Lynch have helped popularize in recent decades, albeit through an approach that occasionally gets under the listener’s skin. Hence the name of the first single from the band’s second album, All Around Me, which applies their eerie shoegaze aesthetic to a stadium-sized recording that otherwise recalls Metric in their glory days.
Yet before the album lands this Friday via eerie-core stalwarts Graveface Records, the band is sharing another track that hews much closer to the Cruise/Lynch end of the dream pop spectrum, with their sound stripped back to acoustic guitar, soft piano, electronic percussion, and Cheyenne Avant’s spectral vocals. “The song is about dealing with the loss of loved ones—like most of the new record—and wanting to believe that they are still around in some form,” the band shares of the stripped-back tune “All Around Me.”
The track comes paired with a dream-like, starkly black-and-white visual that sees Avant and bandmate Devin Nunes performing the track in the studio. “We were inspired by the live recordings of Bill Evans and Chet Baker for the visual aesthetics,” they add.
Check it out below, and pre-order All Around Me here.
