White Flowers - Dreams For Somebody Else (Vinyl LP - 2026 - UK - Original)
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Preston duo White Flowers announce new album, Dreams For Somebody Else - due for release 1st May 2026 via The state51 Conspiracy
White Flowers, the long-running collaboration between Joey Cobb and Katie Drew, exists within what they call “the realm” – a shared creative space, wherein time, rather than being a restrictive force, is fluid and boundless, and music exists as an endless conversation with their past and present selves. Adopting what the band describe as a “sketchbook” approach to writing, White Flowers is the product of a decade’s worth of recordings - snippets nestled away on hard drives, only to truly make sense years later.
On Dreams For Somebody Else, the band expand upon the dark-hued dream pop of their debut, channeling the catharsis of dance music via repetitive structures and “sad, euphoric sounds”. Working alongside LCD Soundsystem and Hot Chip’s Al Doyle on production, the album maps out a mosaic of soaring choruses that swirl around imposing arrays of synths, guitars, and percussion.
Through this new lens, the band explore themes of isolation, dissociation and identity - drawing inspiration from Annie Ernaux’s The Years. “Whilst recording the songs for 'Dreams For Somebody Else’, we really connected with the concept of Annie Ernaux’s book, 'The Years’ - a 'collective autobiography’ pieced together from mismatched fragments from her past, conjuring the effect that she’s merely an observer of her own life. This concept merges into the White Flowers world, where time, rather than being restrictive, is fluid and boundless, with our music existing as an endless conversation with versions of ourselves at different stages of our lives.”
“The album has that same feeling of disassociating from your own life, because you’re just blending into everyone else”, the band explains. “There’s a sadness there, because it’s as if you’re looking back on things that happened to you, and they feel like they don’t belong to you anymore”. It’s the dull ache of nostalgia intertwined with a sense of wonder at what could lie ahead - the hopeful optimism and endless loss that defines the human experience. “It’s this idea of identity not being a fixed thing, but something that’s always changing. It’s a fluid thing, similar to time. Things aren’t really fixed, but rather in a constant state of change. It’s important to remember that we’re all going through that.”
Dreams For Somebody Else follows the release of White Flowers’ debut album Day By Day, 2020 (charting within the Top 20 in the UK Vinyl & UK Independent Charts, and No. 30 in the Album Charts), Within a Dream EP, 2021 and Are You EP, 2021. The band have toured UK and Europe with Beach House, Just Mustard and Doves, supported artists including Echo & The Bunnymen, and played a string of sold out headline shows across the UK. They’ve gained support from the likes of BBC Radio 6, NTS, Mojo, Uncut, Clash and many more, and have consolidated a strong following through their carefully crafted aesthetic and sound.
Trackliste
A1 Spinning
A2 Heaven
A3 Backseat
A4 Tear
A5 Lamp
B1 Heart Breaks
B2 Visual
B3 In The Sky
B4 Dreams For Somebody Else
B5 Thinking Of You
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