The prolific dreampop band Chandeen has just released their 10th studio album Mercury Retrograde.The album has an astronomy theme, influenced in part with Harald Löwy and Julia Beyer’s fascination with the topic. This album uses several angelic vocalists this time around, keeping with the theme of rotating vocalists that has been prevalent since the bands debut in 1990.
There are three songs from Julia Beyer this time around, who has been with Chandeen since 2007 and is the reason that we at Strangeways were introduced to the band. The album also includes 3 songs from French singer-songwriter Kitty whose track You’re In A Trance is one of the more beautiful tracks we have heard in a while and features a constant building beauty and emotion similar to what we have heard with the latest singles from I Break Horses. Another one of the album singles, Ocean Mind, features 16 year old German artist Odile. British composer Holly Henderson also contributes several songs on this album.
When asked about using multiple artists, Löwy says
It’s always nice to invite other people into your own galaxy. To get another view, to see things from a new perspective
Below you can enjoy the 3 singles (and videos) from the album so far.
You’re In A Trance
Hey I know who you’re searching for
I think I have the perfect soul
take my hand lets escape the world
I’ll be your celestial girl
I’ve been starring in all of dreams
As the person I will never be
Don’t you dare ever set me free
Let me linger
One more show
I wanna be your fantasy
Let me be your summer time
I wanna be your everything
Let me be yours
I want my cake and I wanna eat it whole
You’re in a trance
You’re in a trance
I’ll be celestial
I’ll be celestial
I wanna be your fantasy
Let me be your summer time
I wanna be your everything
Let me be yours
I want my cake and I wanna eat it whole
You’re in a trance
You’re in a trance
Da da da da da da da da
Open your eyes
I wanna be your fantasy
Let me be your summer time
I wanna be your everything
Let me be yours
Ocean Mind
Hey let’s go to the other side the
Evening sky
Shines so bright
It will lead us home
Run away,
Start again,
Live the way
We only ever dreamt
We could
We’ll start living the life I should
In between
These shades of cool
I’ve lost and found
I’m tearing it down
And kicking off my shoes
Come and dream with me
We will renegade
Me and my reckless heart
Together
Tears so blue
My mind feels like an ocean
But something in the distance shimmers
You don’t have to be alone my child
We can outrun it all
Or at least we can try
I’ll take your hand inside of mine
We will outrun it all
Out on the other side
Oh oh oh
Nobody can take this from us
Oh oh oh
I don’t have to feel alone
Vanish
As you stare up to the ceiling
Passing lights painting the walls
Holding tight onto this feeling
When her lies turned into truth
You still smell her scent on your pillow
You still feel her hands under your shirt
Wasting all the photos on your pinboard
When she breaks your world apart
But one day she starts to vanish
From your life, what did you do wrong?
Aren’t you still one of the good guys?
Hey, don’t you deserve some love?
Waiting by her doorstep with a flower
You just want to make her cry
When she closed her eyes forever
Finally you found some peace
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