WL//WH New Music ARCHIE SAGERS
Archie Sagers, the Brighton, UK-based Dream-Pop musician, singer, songwriter, photographer, and journalist, as well as the Crafting Room Recordings independent label founder (ELLiS D, Ideal Living, Maximilian, Wine Pride), shares the final single, “Columbus,” from the upcoming self-produced second album “Dreams Along The Shore,” due out on September 12th via his indie label Crafting Room Recordings.
“Columbus” single artwork by Archie Sagers
Lyrically, the track delves into the feeling of uncertainty in your early twenties; the contrast of being a fully grown adult yet never feeling more confused and daunted by the world before you.
The cozy bedroom pop of “Columbus” offers an “intimate and concise trip into a harmonic and nostalgic world”, arranged in a stripped-down yet subtly constructed way, that shimmers with laid-bare expressive fragility. Steady soft mid-tempo drum patterns steer dense, melodic chorus-laden bass lines, swaying hypnotically along with gently thrumming textures, layered with rippling, wistful, echoing guitar twinkles and somberly anxious, doubtful vocals.
The DIY Music Video for “Columbus” alternates drab grey city shots with colorful sprawling country landscapes to explore the feeling of being stuck and wanting to run away brought forth in the soundtrack. The imaginative use of sunlight and its different angles and brightness levels takes the viewer from a depressed to a hopeful mood by the end of the vision.
Archie Sagers‘ sophomore album, “Dreams Along The Shore,” is due out on September 12th via his indie label Crafting Room Recordings.
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