Formed in Holland, Michigan over a decade ago (I wonder if they know Nicole Kidman) and now based in Grand Rapids, Jackie Kalmink’s dream-pop project The Fever Haze began releasing music again after a brief hiatus around 2021, when she also joined the similarly shoegaze-indebted Greet Death’s lineup. Her band’s second album since then, Moonbow, dropped last March, with the late-album track “Tender Little Sunshine” encapsulating the group’s reverence for Cocteau Twins and the ’80s-era 4AD lineup in sound and emotion as Kalmink’s lyrics (and vocals) are a little less obscure. "[It’s] a song about yearning from afar after a chance encounter that changes the trajectory of your life,” Kalmink shares. “It’s a love song for U-Haul lesbians.”
Today the band is sharing a music video for the track, and although it doesn’t explicitly feature any U-Haul lesbians, it does co-star an ominous statue that appears to sweep Kalmink off her feet with a convertible that’s slightly sexier than a rental moving vehicle. The whole computer-generated video is appropriately fever-dreamy, with an early scene set in Twin Peaks’s Black Lodge. Check it out below, and stream or purchase the full record here.
