{"product_id":"tune-yards-better-dreaming","title":"Tune-Yards - Better Dreaming","description":"\u003cp\u003eTune-Yards, the dynamic duo of Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, share details of their sixth studio album, Better Dreaming.\u003cbr\u003eThe album showcases some of their most effortlessly groove-filled music in their career.\u003cbr\u003eDistraction, depression, and heartbreak reign supreme in 2025.\u003cbr\u003e“Making art in this day and age for me is a battle for focus; we’re in an age of interruption,” says Garbus of Tune-Yards’ sixth album Better Dreaming.\u003cbr\u003eProudly waving an anti-fascist, liberation, freak flag, Better Dreaming contains some of Tune-Yards smoothest, funkiest, and most direct pop music to date, and yes, you can dance to it.\u003cbr\u003eAnd when you do dance to it, be prepared to sweat out something that’s been long stuck inside, and pretty deep down.\u003cbr\u003eThe songs of Better Dreaming came to Garbus and Brenner with unusual ease.\u003cbr\u003eThey asked themselves what would happen if they simply let the songs come out, following any trail they wished - first thought, best thought style.\u003cbr\u003eThere was a strong desire to move, to make music that would enter the ear and immediately loosen up the joints, get the whole body wiggling.\u003cbr\u003eAfter covid-isolation, and time away from touring and live shows, the desire to be moved by music was undeniable.\u003cbr\u003eThe insane experience of growing an actual human being influenced this as well.\u003cbr\u003eThe rhythms throughout the record carry a certain freshness, with deep pockets full of subtle idiosyncrasies that stem from Tune-Yards’ return to making an album primarily as a duo.\u003cbr\u003eAll but one of these songs are built around Garbus’ drum looping and rhythm building, as they were on some of the early albums like Bird-Brains and W H O K I L L – no full kit drummer here, and the songs love it.\u003cbr\u003eBetter Dreaming is ferocious in its invocation of self-love, of collective action, of dance floor liberation, ego-death deliverance, and a future we could all thrive in.\u003cbr\u003eWhen diving into the present darkness of the world, Tune-Yards asks themselves how much literal energy and joy can be conjured and pumped through the music.\u003cbr\u003eIn its life-affirming art-pop of the apocalypse, Better Dreaming comes true.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"4AD","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl LP","offer_id":58303299322188,"sku":"BLX-09217","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":58303299354956,"sku":"BLX-09218","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0841\/2738\/3884\/files\/0191400081222.jpg?v=1785926973","url":"https:\/\/badlands.co.uk\/products\/tune-yards-better-dreaming","provider":"Badlands","version":"1.0","type":"link"}