Dahl Haus has released ‘Dreamscape,’ the last of three visually enticing lyric videos created with professional stock footage to bridge the creative gap that pandemic restrictions put on shooting schedules. Like the ‘Helium’ video previously released, Dahl Haus once again plays with color-drenched, trippy visuals to give the impression of a would-be lover trapped in a fever dream. You can watch it now on YouTube:
Lead singer/songwriter and music producer Blaise Dahl said she was inspired to hone her video editing skills because although “I’m always curious about bands’ lyrics, and I want to dig down and explore their meaning, I’m never really drawn in by a background filler with some words scrolling on it. I wanted to be able to tell my songs’ stories in a way that appealed to your senses as well.” ‘Dreamscape’ is a dark, dream pop song which takes an abrupt turn half way through, exploding into fuzzy Lush-like distortion as the dream becomes a nightmare of anxiety and self-doubt. “It’s like a case-study in self-deception and false impressions. Sometimes we delude ourselves in love and relationships -- pretending it's something that it's not to satisfy a need or forward our personal agenda – but then there’s the inevitable, soul-crushing shock of suddenly waking up to reality,” Dahl explained. “The song has the most abrupt changes in its musical progression so when it came to the lyrics it made me think about waking up from a nightmare. There's a hook that's inspired by Edgar Alan Poe's poem ‘A Dream Within a Dream.’ Poe writes: ‘All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.’ I changed that up to make it more personally directed towards the effect of one person on another’s dreams by singing "All I see, All you seem."
‘Dreamscape’ is currently streaming on all platforms.