Dream on is about loss and the thin line between life and death. The track is dirge-like, a repetition of the kind we do in grief, when our brains latch onto and replay phrases that give comfort. If there is a resolution offered within the lyrics, it’s that there is no enduring division between those who have gone and those who remain: we will all be lost forever, soon enough.

For the video accompaniment, I wanted something completely simple: nothing to distract. I’ve been thinking a lot about blue skies, not metaphorically, but actual blue skies, and especially their use in hyper-optimistic branding (‘blue sky thinking’ in the language of money people, but also those skies that often appear beneath fretfully positive self-help-y slogans). So blue skies have found their way into my painting and also our album art. They contrast powerfully with my own (and Kritters’) deeply cynical perspective. 

Happily, sky watching is also an entirely appropriate backdrop for contemplating the transience of life. But, too: I found the idea of asking viewers to sit and look at the sky for four minutes quite delightful in itself, something about duration and wonder, yada yada, you get it. Other than the time-lapse and the words glimmering in and out, there is no treatment of the image: it’s pure, unadulterated sky, just as it was captured from our garden. To digitally alter an already quite magnificent visual felt excessive, and disingenuous, tilting away from the slightly sour honesty we wanted to convey. So here you are: watch words appear and dissolve in a changing sky. We hope you enjoy.