Spherical continues his unique brand of Angel House music with a new single titled Lucid Dreamer. This new track follows two other releases from 2024 by Spherical which include his take on Kool & The Gang’s Get Down On It and the two-track release titled Feels Right that features sparse, delicate melodies with pretty, ethereal vocal passages and vocals delivered by Acasia. The new song is inspired by his mother, a fellow dreamer who studied dreams at the Yungian Institute. Spherical – Lucid Dreamer sets out to evoke the hazy yet vivid quality of a lucid dream through its mix of atmospheric ambiance, improvisational piano, and deep vocals set to a traditional House groove.
Lucid Dreamer opens by establishing its two melodic focuses, the dreamy improvisational piano and deep alluring vocals. Both of those melodic entities maintain a presence throughout the entirety of the track. The beat drops soon after the establishment of both focuses and features a dry kick drum with hi-hat off-beats. Extra unique ear candy accompanies the song’s melodies including digitally altered voice samples, random synth flutters, and circulating monotoned sixteenth-note patterned backing rhythms. Two separate breakdown sections occur following main passages with the beat with one breakdown spotlighting the piano focus and the other the vocals. One final passage through the main groove section brings Lucid Dreamer to its conclusion leaving the listener in a state of reflection of what they recall from this sonic dream experience.
Fans of Bob Moses, Christian Löffler, and RÜFÜS DU SOL will all recognize the influence those groups had in creating the sonic dream world in Spherical – Lucid Dreamer. The track makes for a great gateway drug for getting hooked on Spherical’s music which goes back to the project’s debut in 2023. We are now waiting with bated breath for more releases from Spherical and in the meantime we will wear out the replay button with numerous plays of Lucid Dreamer as it is now available for streaming.
