dreamTX - living in memory of something sweet - New LP Record 2024 Hit the North Opaque Silver Vinyl - Indie Pop / Shoegaze

Following the digital release of "living in memory of something sweet" – released in July 2023 and tipped at Pitchfork, Stereogum, The Quietus, Brooklyn Vegan and more – dreamTX, the post-post rock project of Nick Das, will release the debut album on vinyl in May 2024.

Nick Das is a multi-instrumentalist and producer from Dallas. Das has quietly been recording and performing across the United States since 2016, playing electronic guitar in shoegaze group Kraus, sometimes co-writing with Maggie Rogers, and making his own early albums that bear the bent-toothed twang of Modest Mouse, a striving formalism and regard for words. "living in memory of something sweet" marks his debut album under the dreamTX alias – a nod to Terisius Nash, the logic of sleep and grand southern skies.

In 2019 he made a break away from the new frontier of Texas, away from Drag City worship, and towards Woodstock, the spiritual grounds of the first great awakening. Life became swirls of density: Hudson School hues, sanded brown, pine green, bugs and heat, intensity, exercise, and working himself up mountains. Real freedom and aloneness.

This is where he recorded most of the album. During the process of this he devised a new way of thinking about songs, mapping their structures according to the linearity of an out-and-back trail system wherein you traverse new ground, sounds, and melodies for half the song, and then retrace those same parts in reverse, but through a re-tinkered, degraded lens, where there’s recognizable elements from before (a musical phrase, a chord), but re-contextualized in new spaces (magnified or pushed into the distance, crunched, mangled, or echoing and smeared together... ) to create a progressive arrangement out of the same materials, like patchwork of Japanese boro.