Melancholia and euphoria are usually two antagonistic moods but nothing is more haunting than when they melt into each other. This is the direction taken by Dawn to Dawn (Adam Ohr, Patrick Lee & Tess Roby) on their ethereal yet pulsating new single, “Stereo,” which sits halfway between lo-fi electronic à la Kedr Livanskiy and dreamy Montreal pop. Evoking the rawness of brutalist architecture, the carefree nature of a rave at sunrise, or again the hedonism of a nocturnal trip with your besties, the celestial offering captures, in their own words, “the sound of summer: sweltering nights, afterparties and playful romance.”

Alongside “Stereo,” the Montreal trio have now officially announced their debut album, Postcards From The Sun To The Moon, which was mixed by Patrick Holland and Pierre Guerineau. It features the previously released singles “Meridian,” “Care,” and “A Colour Named By You” and will be released via Tess Roby’s newly launched label, SSURROUNDSS.

Watch the accompanying visuals, directed by Roby, and pre-order the album via Bandcamp below.

Montreal’s trio Dawn to Dawn (Tess Roby + Adam Ohr + Patrick Lee) recently released a dreamy new single, “Care.” Although it was written on a cold, winter’s night, soon after their meeting in 2018, the track is described as “an ode to summer nights.” It also comes with a 16mm film, directed by Tess Roby, which captures the “the cyclical nature of losing track of time.” Watch, enjoy the ride and support the band via Bandcamp below.

“Care” is the third single from Dawn to Dawn, following up “Meridian” and “A Colour Named By You.”

Dawn to Dawn, the new Montreal trio fronted by multi-talented artist Tess Roby, are comfortable occupying liminal spaces. Their music qualifies as both and as neither dream pop nor electronica. It is as influenced by the dreamy atmospheres of dream pop staples like Chromatics or Slowdive as by the wonky electronic landscapes of Jamie xx and modern R&B. Dawn to Dawn are ending the year on a high note by releasing their first single “Meridian”, a song with a special significance for the group. It is the very first song they recorded together, only some minutes after Tess Roby, Adam Ohr and Patrick Lee first met in person two years ago.

That being said, “Meridian” comes out of effort as much as from a sudden burst of creativity. Just by listening to it, you can tell they spent hours tinkering with it, finding the perfect electronic background that Roby’s lower register singing would pulsate against. They have a couple of cards up their sleeve as well. Halfway through the song, they bring in a line of melody straight out of a barbershop quartet group, and they keep it to harmonise with the main phrases. The trick takes the song up a notch, granting it the sort of immediate earworm that can be missing in this kind of music. We are excited to see what will be the next thing coming from them.