Album Review: whenyoung Have Reasons To Dream
whenyoung’s Reasons To Dream is one of my favorite new releases because it beats to pop’s eternal drum of catchy hooks, saccharine lyrics, and lovelorn premises. For most people/ pop fanatics, this genre appeals to the persons whom unabashedly put their head in the clouds, to which I say, “Why Not?” From self-love to social justice, whenyoung are calling for minds to enter the clouds.
What if the problem is not that we dream to big? What if the problem is that we are not dreaming at all? With this notion, the Irish trio launch songs such as, “The Others,” “Blank Walls,” and “Blow Up The World.” Personally, I have always found that it is either the crankily hopeless or the crazily privileged, both of which can be the same, that call out idealists. After all, you might not need hope, if you have so much access. Thus, lead singer Aoife Power, is calling for the “Heartbroken” to pick up the pieces and rebuild the “Future.”
If you still feel pain and want love despite it, then congratulations you are still alive! Better yet, you still have Reasons To Dream. From “Never Let Go” to “You’re Grand,” Aoife’s voice feels as hazed as a YA novel: floating with frustration, love, and hope. She slows and shimmers her verses as if each of her notes were like feet pressing unto sand. She leaves a grained imprint/ image of a dreamer; a person that believes one’s imagination is vital one’s actions. Thus, for whenyoung, those that break hearts or fail to see others’ have them do not have imagination. Frankly, I think it is true, and whenyoung approach this idea with drawling, guitar melodies.
Sonically, Reasons To Dream feels like a pack of adult lullabies. It is starry and paced to make you envision the heartaches and fantasies that come with every emerging adult. Lyrically, whenyoung approach the never-ending struggle to be the change in a world/ after a series of relationships that, at times, seem unchangeable. To Buy Reasons To Dream on May 24 Click Here.
