White Poppy is in bloom
WHITE POPPY
ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM 'SOUND OF BLUE',
OUT 6TH OCTOBER ON NOT NOT FUN
LISTEN TO FIRST SINGLE 'APATHY' HERE
https://whitepoppy.bandcamp.com/track/apathy
From the grey-skied isles and horse farms of British Columbia comes the second volume of Crystal Dorval aka White Poppy’s “Paradise Gardens” trilogy: Sound Of Blue. Originally conceived back in 2016, the album was then recorded, finessed, abandoned, resurrected, overdubbed, and finally mixed into nine refinements of daydream shoe-gaze and therapeutic pop, born from bedroom epiphanies and long winters of the heart.
From slowdive reverie (“Apathy,” “Melancholic Serenity”) and colour wheel psychedelia (“Time”) to spiral chorale (“Happy”) and finger-picked drift (“Wiser”), Dorval’s songcraft moves between escape and acceptance, tracing delicate melodies from undercurrents of loss, light, and solitude. It’s music for memory gardens and pastel horizons, dreaming of bliss and distance, but bound to the here and now: “Thinking about leaving here forever / thinking about leaving here for good / but I keep holding on for something / hoping that it could get better than this / what’s one more night?”
