![]() “It's about all these beautiful wonderful feelings but the last lyric is 'someway, somehow, I'll let you down,'” he says, “it's beautiful but also really sad at the same time.” Wold's perspective was further expanded by his meditative approach to musicianship and psychedelic experiences in the desert that opened his mind to new ways of thinking – and that existential bent is evident on songs like “Celebrate.” It's just about those small moments that you have that make you think this is a good life and you could die happy.” Similarly, Wold describes “Someway, Somehow” as the most honest love song he's ever written. “I'm obsessed with the Beatles, especially their early material which was so joyful, so I wanted to write a song in that spirit. However that's balanced out by songs like the album's infectious first single “Die Happy.” “I wrote 'Die Happy' after I was coming out of the emotional weight of a breakup and starting to fall in love with the love song again,” Wold explains. From feeling like an outcast who doesn't fit in on the sweetly syncopated “Vampire In The Sun” to the aura of loneliness and longing at the core of “Insomniac,” there is plenty of alienation inherent in the album. ![]() “The first two EPs were all about this big breakup that I had been through and these songs were written in the aftermath of that, so in a sense this album is really the sound of me discovering myself,” Wold explains. But there have also been a fair share of crushing lows when it's come to dissolving relationships and personal struggles - and that duality is present all over the band's second full length, LAUNCH FLY LAND. tour to performing at the Meadows Music & Arts Festival alongside Jay-Z and Gorillaz, there have been plenty of highs for DREAMERS over the past five years. The following year Fairfax Recordings released DREAMERS' debut full-length This Album Does Not Exist, which featured breakthrough songs like “Sweet Disaster,” and the band followed that up with a pair of EPs, LAUNCH and FLY, in 2018.įrom experiencing the arena-rock grandeur of landing a coveted opening slot on Stone Temple Pilots' 2015 U.S. The group got lucky once again when they linked up with drummer/vocalist Jacob Wick, who replaced the band's original drummer after the band relocated to Los Angeles in 2015, and began touring full-time. They released their self-titled debut EP later that year and DREAMERS' first single “Wolves (You've Got Me)” was soon in rotation on SiriusXM's Alt Nation, a nearly unprecedented milestone for a new act. “It kind of smacked him at the right time.” From there, true to their moniker, things started happening at breakneck speed for the band. “Nelson was in the perfect point in his life when we met in the sense that he had been in tons of bands and had lots of experience but he wasn't sure if he was going to do music anymore,” Wold explains. Luck would have it that as soon as the songs started coming together, Wold met bassist/keyboardist/vocalist Nelson and they decide to join forces. “I had a $20 gym membership so I could shower and the space was teeming with rats and graffiti, but looking back it was a really positive time for me to immerse myself in trying to write and find my own voice when it came to songwriting.” Correspondingly in 2014, Wold decided to move into his dingy practice space in Bushwick, Brooklyn, so that he could afford to work one day a week and practice guitar five hours each day. “I originally went to New York University when I was 18 to study jazz but while I was on that path, I realized that I wanted to communicate to people in a way that was more accessible and aligned with my personality,” he explains. Those traits lie at the core of DREAMERS, a project that was born out of frontman Nick Wold's seemingly impossible dream of rock stardom. Everything that's worthwhile in life starts with an idea, but in order for that dream to be fully realized it has to be followed up with hard work, creativity and hope.
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