Exclusive video premiere of ‘Garden’ by FRANKIIE, taken from the upcoming album, ‘Between Dreams,’ out June 2 via Paper Bag Records.

Vancouver indie-pop outfit FRANKIIE announces the forthcoming release of their sophomore LP, ‘Between Dreams,’ due June 2 via Paper Bag Records. To kick off the release cycle, they have also shared the record’s first single, ‘Garden’.

Speaking on the track, keyboardist/vocalist Nashlyn Lloyd writes:
“‘Garden’ was inspired by writing retreats to the northern Sunshine Coast of BC where we could detach from the intensity of urban life and focus on music together. We would write all afternoon in the cabin, and take a break to slow down and watch the stars expand forever. The stillness I feel while listening to the ocean or being surrounded by trees is always something I am longing to reconnect with while living life in the city.”

‘Between Dreams,’ the second full-length album from Vancouver’s FRANKIIE, is psychedelic in the way that makes the best works of psychedelia timeless, existential, and exciting. The record’s sonic world, which weaves between reverb-soaked dream-pop, vintage classic-rock, bedroom-psych, and beachy shoegaze, presents the dreamy and the real as one continuum between which there are no borders, and where magic abounds all over.

‘Between Dreams’ explores our lived experiences in a world constantly shifting and twisting abruptly around us. “What is the dream and what’s reality? What’s normal anymore and does it really matter because you’re just experiencing it all anyways,” says Lloyd. “I think that’s all we’re trying to do: just be in this experience and embrace it fully.”

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