Name: Dream Baby
Brand: Gold and Youth

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

PAPER139CD

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Discs

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-11-12

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

The Orchard

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

880893013925

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

PAPER139LP

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black

2021-12-03

880893013918

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Gold and Youth

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Paper Bag Records

Are dreams the stuff of liberation, of beauty and freedom and life and future? Or are they a dose of painkiller that enables normalcy, a carrot perpetually dangling on a miles-long stick? This is the anxious central tension of Dream Baby, the long-awaited second full-length record from Vancouver’s Gold &amp; Youth.

“Is it a positive or a negative that we can kind of delude ourselves?” asks front-person and primary songwriter Matthew Lyall. “It’s both.” Dream Baby, due out November 12th via Paper Bag Records, maps these complexities over a sharp, saccharine web of sounds: Bowie-ish art-rock, Leonard Cohen’s sardonic piano wit, throbbing new wave, and alt-pop that darts between arena ambition and bedroom cynicism.

Lyall’s vision here is sprawling and maximalist with a healthy hint of the apocalyptic and the absurd—an aesthetic and tonal match for our times. It’s a fitting melange for a record that ricochets, dazed, past the horrors of extraction capitalism, imperialism, and white supremacy, but all the while clinging for dear life to the comfort and power of interpersonal relations and the possibilities they suggest. 

Dream Baby is about the myriad systems we’ve devised and implemented to damn our world, but it’s also committed to cultivating and protecting hope and resistance amidst it all. Against Raytheon, Amazon, heat waves, and state violence, we have each other and our collective dreams for a better world.

Dream Baby

Music GB