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Luxury Alone by Weird Dreams

Weird Dreams

Luxury Alone

Release Date: Jun 10, 2016

Genre(s): Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Electronic, Synth Pop

Record label: Tough Love

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Album Review: Luxury Alone by Weird Dreams

Fairly Good, Based on 2 Critics

AllMusic - 80
Based on rating 8/10

During the four years between Weird Dreams' debut album Choreography and Luxury Alone, Doran Edwards experienced profound changes: The band became a solo project; he moved to Paris; and the uncertainty in his life led to battles with depression and anxiety. Throughout it all, he never stopped writing songs, and he found inspiration -- as well as calm -- in the work of writers such as Robert Ashley and musicians including Ryuichi Sakamoto, French electronic composer Eliane Radigue, and Broadcast. While Luxury Alone's synth-pop mantras are a radical transformation from the jangly Choreography, they also sound surprisingly natural.

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Record Collector - 40
Based on rating 2/5

When 2013’s Choreography LP was released, Weird Dreams was an intriguing four-piece London group that specialised in doo-wop power pop with the odd eerie Lynchian undertone. Since then, it has become the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Doran Edwards, now based in Paris. On this latest effort, Edwards conjures echoes of various esteemed mongers of sweet-melodied sadness but never manages to equal their miserable majesty.

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