We were tipped off about Fever Dream a few weeks back, a youthful London three piece made up of guitarist/vocalist Adey Fleet, bassist Sarah Lippett, and drummer Cat Loye. And from the moment we pressed play our first taste of their work in the shape of ‘Serotonin Hit’ has us well blown away.
Emerging from a hazy mist of distortion that floats with the ghosts of My Bloody Valentine and pierced by longing, sweetly sung upper register melodies (“your my sun/when the sun has gone”) that are warmly redolent of Dinosaur Jr. or Husker Du, ‘Serotonin Hit’ is so far so alluring. But then the percussion shifts going into overdrive, revealing a harder shell; treble harmony assaults and noisy guts reminiscent of early Sonic Youth, it feels like a thunderous kick to the solar plexus. Infused with an unsettling existential angst that marks out Fever Dream with a lot more in their armoury than just another copyist ‘nu gaze band’, ‘Serotonin Hit’ is a heady bricolage of gaze, psych and slacker pop sounds that has us declaring it the most memorable tune we’ve clapped ears on this week.
Fever Dream’s debut album, Moyamoya is out now on Club AC30.
Fever Dream’s debut album, Moyamoya is out now on Club AC30.
