Providence screamo/post-hardcore band Dreamwell have signed to Prosthetic and announced a new album, In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You, due October 20 (pre-order). It follows 2021’s great Modern Grotesque, and lead single “Obelisk of Hands” feels like a step up in every way possible. The clean parts are cleaner, the heavy parts are heavier, and the song goes in all kinds of exciting new directions without abandoning what made Dreamwell such a good band in the first place.
“We invested an insane amount of detail and care into every aspect of this album and cannot wait to share it with you,” says vocalist KZ Staska. “In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You is an exploration of interpersonal relationships and how they are impacted by mental illness, particularly Borderline Personality Disorder, and employs a loose conceptual narrative following a character caught in a waking dream, viewing every aspect of his life through the lens of a heavily distorted reality and struggling to escape from his paranoid nightmares.”
About the new song, KZ adds, “In ‘Obelisk of Hands’, what starts as a song about sexual openness slowly morphs into a sadder, bleaker song about using sexuality as a substitute for a lack of romantic affection and a temporary, and ultimately empty, attempt to feel less alone. The song features our good friend Logan St. Germain who plays bass in the band Anklebiter and was formerly the guitarist and vocalist for the band Lilac Queen. They have an incredible voice and sang the clean bridge a lot better than I possibly could have, and I’m thrilled by the extra dynamic touch that they add to the track.”
Dreamwell also have upcoming tour dates, including a support slot on The Fall of Troy‘s upcoming 20th anniversary shows for their self-titled album, Toronto’s New Friends Fest, Providence’s This Is Emoviolence fest (with the reunited Usurp Synapse), and more. They also open the Brooklyn stop of Ithaca‘s tour on September 24 at Saint Vitus. All dates are listed below.
Check out the new song and its video:
Tracklist
1. Good Reasons to Freeze to Death
2. Studying the Greats in Self Immolation
3. Lord Have MRSA On My Soul
4. All Towers Drawn in the Equatorial Room
5. Obelisk of Hands
6. It Will Hurt, and You Won’t Get to Be Surprised
7. Reverberations of a Sickly Wound
8. Blighttown Type Beat
9. Body Fountain
10. I Dream’t of a Room of Clouds
11. Rue de Noms (Could Have Been Better, Should Have Been More)
Dreamwell — 2023 Tour Dates
July 27, 2023 – Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme *
July 28, 2023 – Covington, KY @ Madison Theatre *
July 29, 2023 – Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge *
July 30, 2023 – Cleveland, OH @ Winchester *
Aug. 4, 2023 – Toronto, ON @ New Friends Fest
Sept. 2, 2023 – Potsdam, NY @ Potsdam Park >
Sept. 24, 2023 – Brooklyn, NY @ Saint Vitus Bar ~
Oct. 21, 2023 – Providence, RI @ Dusk <
* = w/ The Fall of Troy & Omerta
> = w/ Sunflo’er
~ = w/ Ithaca
< = w/ Usurp Synapse & Frail Body
