Philly based Makeout City brings us their latest single, “Everytime,” and it’s a poppy shoegazy banger. The band refers to themselves as “Mid-Atlantic Dreamgaze” – upbeat guitars and tight drums drive the song forward, while some synth is thrown in for additional flavor. Everything meshes together well into a shoegaze/dreampop concoction, starting slow and picking up tempo as the track progresses. It’s upbeat and twee, but with some deeper underpinnings, as the band discusses below:
“‘Everytime’ is an introspective track about trying to understand your own thoughts and emotions when navigating life’s uncertainties. We often find a sense of comfort in nostalgia and express that in a lot of our writing. The line ‘drive me back to where I want to be’ touches on wanting to escape the anxieties of adult life and return to a simpler and more carefree time.”
Fans of Alvvays, Far Caspian, or Beach House would find a lot to enjoy here – I feel Makeout City is the happy medium betwixt the three. While not as sprawling as some of Beach House’s tracks, they nonetheless don’t leave you hanging.
You can hear “Everytime” on Spotify or wherever else you stream your music.