(Dreampop, Shoegaze, Lo-Fi) White Poppy - White Poppy - 2013, MP3, 320 kbps

2013 release from the experimental therapeutic pop project from British Columbian inner-peacenik Crystal Dorval. Last winter, packing a satchel full of four-track tapes, she ventured out from her bedroom haven and boarded a boat across the Strait of Georgia to the town of Ladysmith, on Vancouver Island, to The Noise Floor Recording Studio, to mastermind and mix the ten deluxe, delirious dream-gaze gems comprising her self-titled full-length debut. Fusing the warm, washed tonalities of her earliest cassette-blurred lotus meditations with a richer range of glittering guitar gestures, sky-way keyboard cascades and neon-violet vocal refractions, White Poppy captures the catchy, dizzy fuzz and textured, opiated heights of Dorval's deceptively vulnerable songcraft.