Dreams We've Had - "Benny Boy" | New Music

The Twin Cities' foremost dream-pop project returns with their first single of 2019, "Benny Boy."

For a little while, Dreams We've Had has been playing with the idea of going stadium-sized, of bridging the gap between the synthetic, gauzy nostalgia of Dear Friend and the colossal open-hearted pop of mid-period of M83 (especially on latest single "Perfectly Out of Place"). It all finally connects on "Benny Boy."

With a self-referential title, Bennett Blumberg takes the riff from "Myth" and melds it to the transcendent synth & drums of "Wait." The anthemic chorus - "Please / please don't leave / Please / Come back to me" - is minimal in its word choice but loaded with more emotion than a John Green novel. Musically, it plays out like a stereotypical summer "night to remember:" a pensive build, a heart welling up, an ascension into a sky-piercing denouement, a sudden drop-off, a hazy comedown, then finally silence.

Listen to "Benny Boy" below (hey, nice alliteration!).