Listen | Belle Mare: “The Boat Of The Fragile Mind”

Keeping with today’s theme of molasses-slow, euphoric, female-fronted dream pop, here’s Brooklyn-via-London duo Belle Mare with the lovely, haunting “The Boat Of The Fragile Mind” »

I tend to prefer schizophrenic, multi-layered compositions these days: the sort of music informed by the frenetic, overblown dissemination of information and culture that’s defined much of our globalized, connected world over the last twenty years. Perhaps that makes minimal gems like “The Boat Of The Fragile Mind” all the more compelling. It’s strangely disconcerting and comforting at the same time, with eerie-sweet vocal harmonies that swell the song’s otherwise empty space. “We could make it out alive,” Amelia Bushell croons, suggesting there’s a place for the delicate and intrapersonal in this world as much as the shared and interpersonal. An increasingly novel if not wholly foreign concept altogether.

Stream Belle Mare’s debut EP here »