A short post to highlight a beautiful song by yet another band I have recently discovered thanks to the fabulous indie music Twitter community.* 'Moonlight' has only been out for about a week at the time of writing, but is getting a great reception.
I'm not quite sure how, but Dictator's track has succeeded in capturing moonlight in musical form. It's hard to describe adequately in words, but 'dreamlike soundscape' is probably a good place to start.
The pining, haunting vocals paint some serious atmosphere, swimming on a bed of reverbed instrumentation. There are some nicely minimal electronic drums in there too, keeping things ticking along as we float through space. Towards the end the vocals are subjected to some subtle effects, leaving them smudged and slightly dissolved then all is resolved and the voice sings us out alone.
My only complaint is that this all ends in under 3 minutes - but being left wanting more is not necessarily a bad thing I'm sure.
Have a listen (and I'm told there are some very cool stickers and other Moonlight merch available online...)
* In fact, the band contributes greatly to that community also. For example, check out their recently created Spotify playlist "Just, Breathe" for when you really need some music to help give you some head space.