‘Ivory‘ is the penultimate single from the forthcoming debut ‘Drowning in Blue‘ ep, from exciting Dublin shoegaze outfit DREAM BOY, it’s about letting go, it’s about hearing the same things and seeing the same behaviour but for the first time instead of going back, walking away.
The track got its name from the nature that ivory is retrieved, animals killed for their tusks made of the material, when it could just be taken without causing harm. The opening track of the forthcoming ep, ‘Ivory‘ is the first song of healing on the bands discography. An exploration into boundaries and finally standing up for yourself.
Ornamented with violin and their classic wall of sound layers of guitars, it welcomes you into the sonic of the full EP.
‘I have an image in my head of a documentary I saw as a child where animal protection services remove the tusks from animals to protect them from poachers looking for Ivory. This really stuck with me, the idea that these beautiful creatures were being killed for this material when really in order to retrieve it they did not need to be hurt.
I was struggling with the ending to this song, I had most of the lyrics but was missing the songs real purpose. I’d been listening to a song called ‘blue’ by dream ivory which must have put the word in my head and once it was in it all just clicked and fell into place.
The demo is worlds different from how the song sounds now but that’s why I love writing with these guys and working with our producer Daniel De Burca, we really explore and exploit the idea, taking into a totally different world.’
Dream Boy