DREAMWELL‘s debut record “The Distance Grows Fonder” is being released on September 8th across all streaming services. The band will celebrate it at the upcoming record release show on October 7th, alongside a couple of great local acts worth a check: AT THE HEART OF IT, FUNERAL ATTIRE, RAINSOUND, LYMPHOMA TWINS, and REVERIES.

“The Distance Grows Fonder” is a record about acceptance; acceptance of self, acceptance of others, acceptance of pain, acceptance of love and relief. The record’s name comes from the experience of living painfully distanced from the ones you love, whether it be physically or emotionally, and the title track offers the same look at an experience of missing out on the lives of the ones you love. With the overarching theme in place, each track offers a window’s glance at a new consequential issue. The last song, “Blossom” is very much so the cathartic climax of the record. An alternative to the usual breakup song, it represents the overwhelming encapsulation of love and partnership. “Come closer to me” being the desperate call to feel deserving of care and through all the pain one endures, it is always possible to blossom into something worth loving.

The instrumentation is intended to be dissonant and driving, with explosive drumming that has no relent. We intended to explore some of our favorite pillars of post-rock, emotional hardcore, and black metal. We wrote two interludes for this to allow for breathing room amongst some of the chaos and heavy lyrical expressions. We wrote piano for “Closed Doors” as an afterthought after we had already finished recording it to add a sense of humanity to the latter half of the song where the listener is transported to a drifting, eerie soundscape different from most of the record. We self recorded this release to have complete control over the pacing of it. Writing from October 2016 to May 2017, we wanted to explore as many routes with this band as possible, without pigeon holing into a genre, and recording on our own was the least complicated way to do so. There is a pacing the record goes through from start to end where the song structures and styles become more complex by the end, and this is a result of us being able to gently wade into what we want to sound like and write towards.