Daily Jam - Kimmi in a Rice Field

I wish I was one of those people that remembered their dreams. My wife is one. My oldest son appears to be too. But I’m just not. I’ll have a vague recollection of thoughts upon waking in the morning, flashes of things that feel more like impressions rather than memories, but then they fade away, vanished from my head often before my feet even hit the floor. And to be honest, it makes me feel a little left out.

I guess I’ll have to settle for faux dreamlike states as created from airy and hazy pop music.

Mr Twin Sister (formerly known as just Twin Sister which admittedly I liked better) provided just such a tune with the gorgeous and dreamy “Kimmi in a Rice Field” from their 2011 album In Heaven. A glowing, sweeping combination of dreampop and synth pop, the song floats about like a lonesome ghost, a phantasmal image caught in your periphery, following you from moment to moment, and moving through an endless desert, the storm clouds gathering on the horizon threatening to break. There’s a kind of unreality to the whole thing, accentuated by the song’s ghost story lyrics, those breathing synths, and a haunting melody that just whisks your consciousness away.

A world askew, these are the soundtracks to my pretend dreams.

Listen below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Kimmi in a Rice Field

Of all the dreamy pop i've listened to over the last decade (and that's no small amount of dreamy pop), i don't think there's a track that quite nails the aesthetic just right like "Kimmi in a Rice Field," the 2011 tune from Mr. Twin Sister (nee Twin Sister).  I'd never seen the video before though.  It's kinda creepy.  Check it out, our Daily Jam.

Twin Sister

UK band Twin Sister, not to be confused with New York dreampop band Mr. Twin Sister who were formerly known as just Twin Sister, released an EP a couple weeks back of crushing, slow tempo and heavy instrumental doom drone dirges.  Check out "Drab" below and grab the self-titled record here from God Unknown.

Mr. Twin Sister

For some reason or another, dreamy, synthy pop group Twin Sister have changed their name to Mr. Twin Sister.  Okay.  Anyway, here's a new tune from the group, the silky, floaty, sexy sounding "Blush."  The band's new self-titled album is out late next month on Infinite Best.