There is a fantastic creative collision at the heart of the new one from London soundscaping outfit, Just Like Honey. It’s a blend of the mellifluous sounds of dreampop, those hazy harmonies and floating atmospheres with an unexpectedly raw, gnashing grind that runs underneath. It’s not whilfully claustrophobic enough to be shoegaze; too much light shines through it for that, but neither is it quite the easy, ambient-leaning delicacy associated with the dreampop sound.
Wonderfully, it sits in the middle, washing up on the shores of both sounds and yet far enough removed to be something else. What that something else is, is anyone’s guess. Grunge-gaze? Cosmic Pop? I don’t know what to call it, but I love it. And that, at the end of the day, is all that matters.
And just as the song is the product of lush and accessible layers half-hiding darker, more devastating sonic undercurrents, lyrically it is about how we, as humans, often waft through life wearing our bravest face, hiding the anxieties and sadness that pool and percolate below.
A perfect example of a song’s lyrics being mirrored by the music it uses to deliver them. Very clever indeed.
