Tymbro
Don’t Panic ,You Can Dream

Tymbro - Don’t Panic, You Can Dream - Introspection as an Astral Journey

A good starting idea for someone writing an album review might be to find a common thread, a sort of path that guides the listening of the tracks towards the understanding of a single meaning. However, things are rarely that simple, and in most cases, one ends up settling for a few clues that project like small cones of light in a dense and shadowy forest of meanings.

And so, listening to "Don’t Panic, You Can Dream," Tymbro's debut album, my attention was repeatedly drawn to the idea of a journey, in its different meanings: the first track, "Airport," projected in my mind the metaphor of the airport as a place of uncertainties, a point of departure, arrival and intersection, of meeting and separation of destinies;

the wonderful "Dervish" offered me a new vision of the path just undertaken, narrating an introspective journey in search of the meaning of existence; in "X," the overlap of the wise man's words with the telecasts of the moon landing elevated the introspective search to the rank of an astral journey, an oneironautical experience that leads to a deeper self-awareness.

In the video for "Dervish," memories materialize through dreams that come to life and dance around the sleeping protagonists, all within the same frame. Such surrealism refers to a collective imagery that has inspired musicians and writers: from the dreamy and surreal atmospheres of videos like "Midnight City," "Reunion," and "Wait" by M83, to the psychedelic flashbacks of "Retrograde" by James Blake, to the lucid dreams of the protagonist of "Sonno," or of Tamura Kafka in "Kafka On the Shore" by the great Murakami Haruki.

The surrealistic evocation narrated by the images in the "Dervish" video is the perfect expression of the evocative sounds, sometimes liquid and dreamy, other times syncopated and more distinctly electronic, that accompany the entire album. The sounds range from psychedelic pop to ambient music, with small hints of electronic and post-rock. Excellent debut work for an artist who has just begun to tell their story.

Release Date: 09/22/2017

Genre: Pop, Electronic, Psychedelic

Label: Scene Music Records, Goodfellas

Tracklist:

01. Airport

02. Dervish

03. Newspaper Asteroid

04. Hollie

05. Little Acid Love

06. 3:59

07. X

08. Onedrop

09. Everytime