Dwen

London-based experimental lofi-folk-R&B trio Dwen are pleased to reveal the animated video for their new single ‘Memory Foam’ released 18th January 2023.

The track is the latest to be taken from their debut EP, Leoht Farn, set for release on 27th January 2023.

Commenting on the lush, vibey track—which Dwen have coined a “noddy bop”—the band say: "’Memory Foam’ opens sounding like a piece of early 90s soap opera music playing out under some ambivalent scene, and channels a slightly 80s/90s pop influence, then the psychedelic folk elements seep in with the beat. It sounds sort of melancholic and fun and strangely serene at the same time.”

A metaphor for how our memories, fears, anxieties, desires, and thoughts are like a swirling, beautiful foam that bubbles and sloshes across the screen of the mind—mesmerising, captivating, but ultimately transient—the band explain, “It’s in part about learning what to pay attention to and what to let go of, and in part looking at awareness itself."

‘Memory Foam’ follows on from previous singles ‘Purple’ and ‘A Ghost in The Weed Garden’ which were released late last year to a flurry of Hype Machine blog support, the first new material from the trio since the release of their 2019 standalone single 'Tr Pp N' which drew early attention from tastemakers at The Line of Best Fit, High Snobiety, Sodwee and more.

Born from the frustration, inertia, and ennui of trying to work together through the pandemic, for the forthcoming new EP, Leoht Farn, the band shelved they had recorded over a near 3 year period in their windowless underground studio, and in the summer of 2021 took refuge in a remote cottage in the British countryside with little equipment, no material, their ceremonial robes and a veritable hoard of high grade hashish.

The result on Leoht Farn is a collection of songs that have an intimate presence, simplicity, and are imaginative playful reflections on the potential awe and wonder embedded in every seemingly ordinary moment of our lives. An invitation to look at ourselves and our relationship with not only our bodies, but the spaces and moments in time our bodies occupy and the micro and macrocosm of nature, the planet and beyond, deep within and deep without.

Thematically the songs are a rendered auto-outpouring of intimate, surreal, and at times tongue-in-cheek lofi-folk-R&B. Merging pop references, accounts of altered states of awareness and cut-up and reimagined writings of various mystics, philosophers and poets. A response to the apparent state of emergence and integration of technology, psychedelics, meditation, magick, ritual, sex and active imagination. Practices that soften the edges between mind-body, inner-outer, I-thou, embodiment and disembodiment.

Debut EP Leoht Farn is released 27th January 2023