Fancy Kloudshifters
This week we drift to sleep into Gelli Haha's whimsy before trying to figure out the hard things: what we are, where we belong, what we want, and what we need. As we wake up in Able Heart's hometown Philadelphia, we realize that fate ultimately had our back.
Fancy a listen?
Klouds Will Carry Me To Sleep • Gelli Haha
Song mood: bliss
Gelli Haha splashes listeners with a lurid dreamscape, dragging us down into the depths ocean only to rise again to the heights of space. A self-described sonic shapeshifter, her lyrics gently acknowledge the energy needed for any transformation.
Magic, warmth, sun, wishes, and whimsy tug us through different states that don’t have to make sense. The math never has to math in dreamland. Much of the joy I feel from this song comes from a smile at the silliness of each exuberant switcheroo she pulls along the way.
Listen to Klouds Will Carry Me To Sleep by Gelli Haha
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Ghosts • Catching Flies
Song mood: dreamy
Ghosts get to try on anything they like in their disembodied existence. British DJ Catching Flies follows a spirit of low-hi plucks wandering through a global jukebox.
Curiously, the neighborhoods we pass through never layer. We can't know what our ghost seeks, or if it's ever satisfied. Short breaks in our march open our ears to the different refrains. Suddenly, we push forward toward the next thing to try on.
Listen to Ghosts by Catching Flies
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Queen • Magic City Hippies
Song mood: trippy
In those few moments between dreamscape and waking up, our brain sometimes pushes rewind and situate the visions. How were we cast in that dream?
Is the reality we're waking up to subject to someone else's fantasies—a role inside their silver screen—instead of what we need? All I want is love, queen.
Listen to Queen by Magic City Hippies
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Fancy • Able Heart
Song mood: rough
I was put on earth to create. Able Heart swaggers with purpose through his Philadelphia hometown, placing his pitfalls and successes into rhythmic parity. Fancy tells the story of odds that fate evened out.
