tUnE-yArDs – Better Dreaming (CD)
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Merrill Garbus has been one of indie pop's most restless and politically engaged voices since tUnE-yArDs' debut *BiRd-BrAiNs* in 2009, building a sound rooted in looping, layered percussion and an unflinching willingness to confront identity, race, and power. *Better Dreaming* arrives at a moment when those themes feel more urgent than ever, channeling that tension not into anxiety but into movement.
Distraction, depression, and heartbreak reign supreme in 2025. "Making art in this day and age for me is a battle for focus; we're in an age of interruption," says Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs on sixth album Better Dreaming. Proudly waving an anti-fascist, liberation, freak flag, Better Dreaming contains some of tUnE-yArDs smoothest, funkiest, and most direct pop music to date, and yes, you can dance to it. It's songs came to Garbus and bandmate/partner Brenner with unusual ease, letting the songs come out, following any trail they wished. Four-on-the-floor "How Big is the Rainbow" drips with disco-house, queer-club, anthemic strobe energy. Better Dreaming is ferocious in it's invocation of self-love, collective action, dance floor liberation, ego-death deliverance, and a future we could all thrive in. When diving into the present darkness of the world, tUnE-yArDs asks themselves how much literal energy and joy can be conjured and pumped through the music. In it's life-affirming art-pop of the apocalypse, Better Dreaming comes true.
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UPC: 191400081222
Label: 4ad
Release Date: 5.16.25
Format: CD