SPILL VIDEO PREMIERE: A SHORELINE DREAM – “EVERYTHING TURNS” FEAT. MARK GARDENER

A SHORELINE DREAM – “EVERYTHING TURNS” FEAT. MARK GARDENER

A SPILL EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE

There’s a special kind of magic that happens when outstanding, even ground-breaking, artists unite forces to create music. This can be especially interesting in cases where a collaboration involves several artists who have left their mark on both the industry and the fans alike, redefining genres and pushing the envelope of music ingenuity. Fortunately, we have the pleasure of introducing you to exactly such a release today, brought to you by none other than A Shoreline Dream and Ride’s own Mark Gardener.

Together, with their new single “Everything Turns”, these two artists – both well-achieved music icons in their own right – present us a masterpiece – dare we call it an instant classic for lovers of post-punk, dream-rock and shoegaze. It is our pleasure to premiere this beautiful track and delightful ethereal soul-searching video. A Shoreline Dream and Mark Gardener open the gate to a garden of sonic enchantment built on trance-inducing spine-tinglingly magnificence.

This is the first taste of Whitelined, which so happens to be A Shoreline Dream’s eighth full-length record, following their 2022 critically acclaimed Loveblind album. Out on July 19, it will be released on vinyl and digitally via Latenight Weeknight Records.

Formed in 2005, A Shoreline Dream is now multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Ryan Policky and guitarist Erik Jeffries, who are based in Barnum, Colorado. This album sees them team up with Gardener to craft a record where shimmering walls of sound wash of turbulent percussion and swooning vocals to weave an otherworldly sonic reality.

The video for “Everything Turns” was filmed, directed and edited by Ryan Policky for Latenight Weeknight Records, LLC. Captured in Denver, Colorado in April 2024, it features Julianna Beckert as the wandering actress.

“It was great and one of those life-fate meant-to-be chances to connect with Ryan and A Shoreline Dream. Ryan sent a good few tracks through to me from Denver to my Ox4 Sound Studio in Oxfordshire and the first backing track I totally connected with was the track that was to become “Everything Turns”,” says Mark Gardener.

“Lyrically, it’s a reflection on how technology is taking over and, the more connected we get with it, the more alone we can find ourselves in the real World.  The backing track was special and the chemistry really happened with this track. It was a joy to ride these sonic waves with Ryan throughout the whole creative process. IN the end “Everything Turns!”

Policky and Jeffries first met Gardener at a Ride show in Denver on Policky’s birthday.  Working together throughout 2023 between Ride tour dates, they wrapped up three songs, co-written and co-produced, near the one-year mark.

““Right after seriously one of the best shows in recent memory, we threw around the idea of collaborating. This was such an amazing collab. Mark was super open stylistically and the ideas flowed. I think we created something neither of us were fully expecting. Making art with true pioneers is why I continue down this path,” says Ryan Policky.

“Working with Mark, who impressed me with his songwriting so many eons ago, was like nothing else. It was like a process of possibilities somehow all hitting at once, all for the right reasons, and all in a way I don’t think either of us could have expected. It was on my 2023 birthday that it somehow took shape”.

Mark Kramer (Urge Overkill, Bongwater, Shimmy Records) oversaw the mastering and the record’s preparation for direct-to-vinyl production. Whitelined will be the first A Shoreline Drive album released as a vinyl LP, fittingly on 180G white vinyl. The album art is based off a photo taken by Policky at Yellowstone in 2008, and re-worked into an oil on photo on canvas, shortly after experiencing that place.

Over the past two decades, A Shoreline Dream has churned out numerous releases under their own label (Latenight Weeknight Records), working with legends Ulrich Schnauss and Mark Kramer, and landing distribution by iconic UK indie label Rocket Girl Records for music written while visiting Ulrich in Leytonstone. They’ve remixed Engineers’ music for progressive label gods K-Scope and also opened for Chapterhouse for their very final appearance.

As of May 14, “Everything Turns” will be available everywhere digitally, including Spotify, Apple Music and Bandcamp. The Whitelined album will be released on July 19 and is already available for pre-order.

ALBUM CREDITS

Tracks 2, 5 and 10 co-written by Ryan Policky & Mark Gardener
All other songs written by Ryan Policky & Erik Jeffries
Tracks 2, 5 and 10 co-produced by Ryan Policky & Mark Gardener
All other songs recorded, mixed and produced by Ryan Policky
Mastered by Mark Kramer
Distributed by The Orchard
Copyright 2024 Latenight Weeknight Records, LLC
Cover art and photography by Ryan Policky
Publicity by Shauna McLarnon at Shameless Promotion PR
Video created by Ryan Policky
Filmed in Denver. CO in April 2024, starring Julianna Beckert
Video copyright 2024, Latenight Weeknight Records, LLC

While you’re here, you can also sneak an ear-peek of the fuller album as Ryan Policky puts the test pressing on the turntable for a spin:

A Shoreline Dream
[Single]
(Latenight Weeknight Records)
Release Date: May 14, 2024

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