New Audio: Berlin’s Waking Dreams Share Brooding “Not So”

Berlin-based duo Waking Dreams — Angela Chambers and Jason Letkiewicz — emerged from a three year hiatus, in which the members pursued solo projects, with the recently released album Sliding Lines. The new album’s material features a wide stylistic array with songs ranging from pop rock and ballads while seemingly influenced by Teenage Fanclub, Blondie, Annie Lennox, Brian Jonestown Massacre and Catherine Wheel. And they do so while retaining the elements of their sound that has won them attention — Letkiewicz’s ever-shifting soundscapes paired with Chambers expressive vocal.

Sliding Lines‘ latest single, the brooding “Not So” is built around a relentless post-punk thump, Letkiewicz’s spectral and wiry bursts of guitar paired with Chambers’ supple yet ethereal delivery before building up to a brewing storm across the horizon. “Not So” manages to recall the brooding and creepy eeriness of Siouxsie and the Banshees and Garlands-era Cocteau Twins.