Tender and dispersive, comes the third album Mydreamfever, better known as Parannoul, one of the most discussed names of contemporary shoegaze, of those who owe their fame to Reddit and RateYourMusic. The artist based in Seoul had inaugurated the side-project in 2022 with “Rough And Beautiful Place”, where a graceful ambient performance was combined with a new age bedroom scenario, suspended between melancholy and spirituality.
The attitude bedroom remains the poetic fulcrum, both in its best-known form shoegazer as in this project, equally quiet and collected, but more oriented towards a glitch-pop of digital fireflies, made of beep and system interferences that intertwine with a velvety guitar and a caressing song, almost a breath.
The doubts of “2. Blue Lucent Reverie” are all in the substance. It must be said that it is a meticulous work in its microsounds, in the low quality mp3 samplings and in the caresses post-millennium bug; the eight tracks, for a total duration of almost sixty minutes, coherently transmit the intentions of peace and serenity that the work seems to want to preserve.
The melodic direction, however, appears less effective, with filler passages scattered almost everywhere. It's as if the compositions suffer from a songwriting not very incisive in the chords and harmonic textures. The result is a work that shines for its intention, but not always for its consistency.
The key concept here is sixty minutes. An hour for eight classically crafted songs is a bold choice, to be approached trusting that each idea is truly intense and necessary. It is almost ironic that the most successful moment is perhaps “AM 454”, an instrumental pseudo-interlude, a dream lounge pop four minutes. In other words: a skimming would have been useful.
The imagery created, in any case, remains fascinating and difficult to criticize, unless the sugary excesses increase our musical blood sugar levels too much. What remains, in any case, is a bright and velvety album of sound bedroom pop it makes his refuge sweeter, but which perhaps does not invite a constant return.
24/10/2025
Antonio Santini for SANREMO.FM
