Album Review: Dahlia Sleeps Awaken In “Love, Lost”

Dahlia Sleeps’s new record, Love, Lost, feels like you are, sonically, making love. It redefines sex and sultriness for the beauty of intimacy, and feeling like you need to know someone’s body because you have gotten to know their soul. With string led melodies aligning throughout the album, you feel like you could grab a violin string and float away into love, itself. 

Dahlia Sleeps’ Love, Lost embodies the name of both the album and the artist. From “Storm” to “To The Water,” there is such a tenderness in their piano keys and Lucy Hill’s stunning, operatic voice that, together, they feel like the delicate caress of a lover’s hand over their partner’s soft skin. Somehow, the band have managed to put intimacy into a sound that feels starry and galactic despite having the simplest chords. Hence, Dahlia Sleeps really does feel like you are hearing the breaths of a woman, named Dahlia, sleeping, and her dreams are songs such as, “Settle Down” and “Love, Lost.”

Frankly, I adore beautiful things. At times, softness and gorgeousness make us cower because they feel too powerful to embrace. Yet, Dahlia Sleeps album deserves to be held. They let their melodies rain over you like you are soil that has been through a spiritual drought. This is, particularly, true in their intro, interlude, and outro. There, Lucy Hill’s voice feels like an angel humming and hymning for your attention. She sounds so pristine, like water from the sky, that she solidifies that this album is 100% radiant. I can just picture the amount of contemporary/ modern dancers that will choreograph to these lovely songs dances that solidify the attractiveness of physical movement, while singing to the emotional  tragedy of losing the physicality of romance. For More Information On Dahlia Sleeps And To Buy Love, Lost On January 18 Click Here.