By rights, Dream State should be your favourite band by now. Just a few years ago, they were one of the hottest bands around. Voted Best British Breakthrough at the 2018 Kerrang! Awards, 2019 debut album Primrose Path established them as serious contenders. Then the pandemic intervened and almost three years of disruption later, it’s a very different band that releases their first collection of new music since the before times. Singer CJ Gilpin and guitarist Rhys Wilcox left last year, with sole remaining original member Aled Evans acknowledging: “The pandemic has been hard and hit us all in different ways.” Aled has rebuilt the band, recruiting Jessie Powell (vocals), Jake Bowen (bass) and Tom Connolly (drums) in order to release this taster, three-track EP, but ...