Dreamwell: “It’s all about interpretation – it’s about not having a literal answer”

Keziah ​‘KZ’ Staska listened. Dreamwell​’s vocalist had words in their pocket – coruscating words shot through with theatre and doubt and self-recrimination – that needed to find music of similar violence and complexity. So they bided their time as their bandmates worked, eager to snatch the right kind of noise from the air. ​“I waited to hear them start playing something that spoke to me,” they say. Their patience was rewarded with the instrumental that became All Towers Drawn In The Equatorial Room, a gut-wrenching emotional ordeal that explodes close to the midpoint of the Providence band’s feverishly brilliant second LP In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You. ​‘I would bash my skull against a brick wall if you told me happiness might leak out,’ KZ yells, surrounded b...

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