New Video: TANGIENTS Share Dream-like “The Ether”

Los Angeles-based duo TANGIENTS — multi-instrumentalists Chelsea Ray and Be Hussey — specialize in a unique take on shoegaze that draws from 80s post-punk, 90s shoegaze and dream pop anchored around Chelsea Ray’s dream-like delivery and a melodic wall of guitars. And with the release of their first two singles, 2018’s “White Foam” and 2019’s “Hazel,” the Los Angeles-based duo carved a name for themselves among fans of dreamy post-punk, ethereal wave and shoegaze.

Building upon a growing profile within the post-punk, shoegaze and dream pop scenes, the duo will be releasing their long-awaited full-length debut, Embers on May 1, 2026. “Embers is about self-discovery and the one thing we all must do: survive. To me, it is a reminder to live in the now,” the band’s Chelsea Ray explains.

The album’s first single “The Ether” features Chelsea Ray’s remarkably Elizabeth Fraser-like croon floating over shimmering and swirling, reverb-soaked guitar textures paired with a tight, boom-bap-like backbeat. While seemingly channeling Cocteau Twins and Beach House, “The Ether” conveys a swooning, heart-wrenching longing.

Directed by Joseph Rubinstein, the accompanying video is a cinematically shot surreal fever dream that sees the band’s Chelsea Ray in a milk bath adored with flower petals, laying under gauzy lace and then later, the duo with caked, cracked clay on their bodies.

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The music video for “The Ether” enchants with an evocative fantasy quality, featuring vocalist Chelsea Ray’s sweetly delivered siren calls from a celestial milk bath adorned with flower petals. Surreal cracked-skin effects on both band members lend additional vulnerability and surrealism to the aesthetic. Layers of dreamy gauze create more interdimensional immersion — and a nebulous state of consciousness where reality meets the immaterial, and experience transcends the ordinary. “The Ether” music video is now streaming on YouTube.