Given that “Run,” the latest release from Dream Bodies, is about “… venturing into the unknown, into the dark vastness of possibility,” Steven Fleet, the man behind the moniker, seems to have found himself in a place where the music and the mission statement dovetail perfectly. I say that because such a description is not only the lyrical sentiment of this latest single, his fifth under this name, but also succinctly sums up everything that his music embodies.
It is into the unknown that his music ventures, exploring those liminal spaces where the ambient and the understated meet the anthemic and cinematic, those blurred boundaries where darkwave and dance merge, where gothic shadow and pop accessibility meet like the long lost lovers that they are, where the cultish becomes the commercial, and vice versa.
“Run” shimmers with seductive sonics, ticks with clubland cool, broods brilliantly, and challenges the mainstream to do something half as interesting as Dream Bodies offer us here via this dark, dream pop sound.
This is music with a mission, perhaps to subvert the charts, maybe to show us another way of making contagious and accessible alternative music, to raise benchmarks and throw down sonic gauntlets, possibly to act as a subversive Trojan Horse to get to the heart of today’s already fractured and fruitless commercial realms.
More likely, Steven Fleet doesn’t actually know where this music will take him, or us for that matter, and is happy to strike out into pastures new, seeing who he encounters along the way and noting who follows him into that unknown place of potential.
As someone wise once said, “It is better to travel well than to arrive.” Enjoy the journey and remember, Run, don’t walk.
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