I’ve been slowly falling in love with more dream-pop and shoegaze sounds over the past year. So, when I stumbled across BUBBLE TEA AND CIGARETTES through their Instagram page, it was as if I had found my own musical golden ticket. “Plane Crash,” the lead single from their latest album, “we should’ve killed each other,” is a centerpiece of the album’s crusade toward oblivion, catching the twilight hours in its reverberated guitar loops and front-woman Kat’s gothic and hushed deliveries. The song stings of a nihilistic heartbreak, with shattered promises of eternity, yet with some light piercing the door that leads to what lies ahead. “Plane Crash” is love and death intertwined — anthemic and intimate — all while staring straight into desolation and whispering astutely: “I wanna live again.”
Listen to the rest of this week’s playlist here!
