Alvvays - Dreams Tonite

"Who starts a fire just to let it go out?"

Album: Antisocialites [2nd album]
Recorded: Los Angeles, Buffalo & Toronto
Genre: Dream Pop, Synthpop
Album Release: September 8th 2017
Single Release: July 25th 2017 [2nd single]
Length: 3:17
Producer: Alec O'Hanley, John Congleton
Vocalist: Molly Rankin
Label: Transgressive Records

Music Video


Live on KEXP in 2017


Live on WFUV in 2017

Charts, Sales & Streams

Canada: Gold Record (40,000+)
Spotify: Over 110 million
YouTube Music: Over 10 million

Credits

8 Track Recorder (TASCAM 488), Pro-Tools DAW

Details

• 'Dreams Tonite' is about a woman who has ended a relationship but still thinks of her partner in her dreams.
  
  There are several references to transportation in the song such as a "live your life on a merry go round" and "counting motorbikes on the turnpike". This likely refers to the direction of travel in the relationship, like how things start at one point and end at another.
  
  
• "I think even thought the songs are all slightly different in their narrative. There's just this underlying theme of escapism and separation: it takes you through all the stages of a break-up." (Molly Rankin talking to NME)
  

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