Ears Wide Open: Gap Dream

Kevin Bronson on October 23rd, 2013

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Gap Dream could very well end up being the best subplot of the growing Burger Records legend. The man behind the name, Gabriel Fulvimar, moved to southern California from Cleveland last December – something about the weather, he says – and took up residence at the label’s headquarters in Fullerton. There, Fulvimar began living the dream – making the album “Shine Your Light” with producer Bobby Harlow. The new album, the follow-up to Gap Dream’s self-titled 2012 record, is about as precise as willfully lo-fi psych-pop can get: chugging rhythms blanketed in kaleidoscopic synths and carrying Fulvimar’s pretty-but-slacker vocal melodies (think the Growlers in a good mood). “I feel like a man falling out of time / Nothing makes much sense, no reason or rhyme,” Fulvimar sings in “Snow Your Mind,” and whether you’ve lived through a few decades of psychedelic music or just hatched and swiped an Electric Prunes vinyl from somebody, “Shine Your Light” (out Nov. 26) is how you get stoned.

||| Stream: “Shine Your Love” and “Fantastic Sam”