Photo by Kyle Braun

After hearing “Blade Silver Metallic”, the alternative listeners of the underground music world will most definitely want to start planning out their trip for their soundtracks into the summer by keeping forever ☆’s name in mind. As the star-kissed Kansas City duo of David Chavez and Rachel Stang, the shoegaze-pop experimentalists are expanding on the genre dissolve and distortion that was 2023’s first entry, 3 Series, with their second EP, Second Gen Dream. If you want to know where the future of bent sonics are going moving forward, its opener and lead single speeds through the blurry sheen at ease using the pair’s drum ‘n bass and garage mechanics built into in its ultra-modern upgraded model. Don’t worry — you still get more than your fair fix of blown-out guitars and lovelorn, heaven-ascendant vocals, but the way forever ☆ accentuate the aerodynamic ride of shoegaze’s core body by transcending its airy bliss onto the streets of rave, you can’t help but throw caution to their wind and just let them take you wherever they’re escaping to…

forever ☆’s Second Gen Dream will be released August 29th on à La Carte Records.