Wages – “Super Perfect Dreams” (audio) (premiere)

Wages‘ “Super Perfect Dreams” is a classic album closer. Its atmosphere is a denouement, steady guitars and clicking drums carrying vocalist Nick Byron Campbell’s shrill falsetto over oceans of space. It’s the kind of sound easily (and appropriately) described as “crystalline”, casually undulating melody and harmony conjuring images of cosmic seas or technicolor caverns. The song is a wonderfully spacey end to a wonderful album, a “super perfect dream” in its most lucid sense.

“The line ‘I have super perfect dreams that I’d like to forget’ popped into my mind one day as a sarcastically humorous mantra for hopeless dreamers,” says Campbell. “Having beautiful dreams for your life is a gift, but with it comes the pain of watching many of those dreams slip away over time.”

Glace releases July 29.