Dreampop / shoegaze duo Tape Waves return with new single “Tired” 

South Carolina dreampop / shoegaze duo Tape Waves return with new single “Tired” off their upcoming album Bright on new label Emotional Response.

RELEASE DATE: June 4th, 2021

Hello,OOPS – The album download link in the earlier email did not work. So here is the corrected pitch. Sorry about that. I hope this blissful dreampop single “Tired” from the South Carolina shoegaze duo Tape Waves starts your week off right. The band return with their fourth album Bright which comes out on their new label Emotional Response this June.

I love this record and it made a bit of my chill time just hanging out in a hammock on the lake over the weekend just perfect. The exact music I wanted coming out my headphones while little bits of sun would break through the thick cover of the leaves above.  The band debuted the first single at Austin Town Hall on Friday.

Tape Waves are Kim and Jarod Weldin, a dream pop duo from Charleston, SC. They have released 3 full length albums on San Diego’s Bleeding Gold Records, which have garnered comparisons to Mazzy Star, Cocteau Twins and Best Coast. SPIN described the bands’ sound as “wistful, lens-blurred dream pop to soundtrack nostalgia daydreams and sleepy weekend afternoons.” Their two most recent albums were also released on 2670 records in Japan, where they toured in support of 2018’s Distant Light.

Their new album, Bright, combines the bands’ previously established sun-drenched pop with the fuzzed out indie rock influence of bands like My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, and Teenage Fanclub. Bright was mixed and mastered by Kevin McMahon (Real Estate, Titus Andronicus, Widowspeak) at his studio, Marcata Recording, in Upstate New York, elevating the production and adding the sonic depth that the songs deserve.