I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night

by Celestial

supported by

Yetipeg Sweet languid guitar and drone ambience. Reminds me of early Labradford / Mark Nelson drifting sounds. Lovely panacea for 2021.

Charlie Moonbeam Soft music, to be used delicately when trying to communicate with angels and nymphs. Favorite track: The Perfumed Garden.

more...

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

£8 GBP or more

1.	Endless 05:40	buy track
2.	Hat Full Of Rain 06:32	buy track
3.	Cinnamon Snowflake 06:19	buy track
4.	The Perfumed Garden 07:36	buy track
5.	At The Rivers Edge 04:31	buy track
6.	Lonely Weekend 05:44	buy track

about

Stunning debut of lilting bliss for guitar x synth by manc bosom buds Celestial, quietly resplendent in a classic vein of soft touch Balearic blues and kosmische hues that comes very highly recommended if you’re into anything from The Durutti Column to Vincent Gallo’s classic ‘When’, from Roméo Poirier's poolside washes to Move D’s lilting Conjoint productions, or even the instrumental splendour of HTRK at their most diaphanous.

Bathed in moonlight, ’I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night’ is the gorgeous debut by childhood friends Celestial, arriving in the glistening wake of 2021 gems on the same label by Romance, Not Waving, Spivak, claire rousay & more eaze. Convecting a richly sanguine sound gleaned from a Sequential Circuits Sixtrak synth and Fender guitar with the results mottled to frail AGFA tape, it’s the modest and warm soul on display that speaks to a quieter side of the rainy city psyche, picking up a fine thread of etheric inspiration that leads back to The Durutti Column via Ry Cooder’s ‘Paris, Texas’ soundtrack and Iasos’ intoxicating new age, with a fragile, gauzy vision of instrumental songcraft ripe for getting lost in dappled fantasy.

Practically synaesthetic in their spatial sensitivity, the six songs make a real virtue of reverb, echo and ferric hiss that swaddles their lyrical phrasing with a cottony texture. Favouring an analogue haze over digital clarity, their sound unspools with a kaleidoscopic, nostalgic quality surrendered in shimmering waves of bliss and a back-of-the-eyes swirl between the hash haze of ‘Endless’ and northern gothic tone of ‘Lonely Weekend.’ Tape hiss resembles drizzle outside in the lowlit langour of ‘Hat Full of Rain’, and we can practically taste the petrichor in ‘The Perfumed Garden’ - basically a smudged take on Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Albatross', leading to ASMR levels of synth tingles with an unmistakeable northern melancholy of ‘At The Rivers Edge’, especially in its gloaming coda.

A reel low-key stunner.

credits

released August 5, 2021

license

about

Celestial London, UK

contact / help

Contact Celestial

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Celestial, you may also like:

hybtwibt?
by Space Afrika

supported by 62 fans who also own “I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night”

i haven't been through what you've been through, but i want to understand everett
go to album
Once Upon A Time
by Romance

supported by 61 fans who also own “I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night”

never really been a celine dion fan but these slow-core interpretations are a beautiful and fascinating salve for your overburdened psyche. dag_nabbhett
go to album
A Kiss Is Just A Kiss
by Romance

supported by 48 fans who also own “I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night”
go to album
Torre
by F.S.BLUMM

featured on Bandcamp Radio Mar 19, 2024
go to album
Das Nuvens
by Fabiano do Nascimento

featured on Bandcamp Radio Jun 20, 2023
go to album
Welcome
by F.S.Blumm

featured on Bandcamp Radio Sep 12, 2017
go to album
Everywhere at the end of time
by The Caretaker

supported by 48 fans who also own “I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night”

Actually astounding and emotionally moving, creating a community that I have been proudly a part of for 2 years OrsonXD
go to album