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Live With Excuse

by STILL DREAMS

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The more I speak The less I say I don't know how to express my feel I'm not right But I can't hide I want to sleep in bed to heal When the morning comes I'm always afraid I don't have to wake up From this shade Is there any funs For the one strayed? I don't have enough luck To be praised Have you felt like you want to disappear Cause all you can find is fear, fear in you Have you felt like you are almost breaking down So go away with me We gonna live with excuses All you see is nothing real Live with excuses All you see is nothing real Love your own tricks Take what you only need Know what make you lift Blind but no scared Live with excuses All you see is nothing real Letting up Though worst ideals These things mean a lot to me In this sounds I can get free And nothing is never as it seems Have you felt like you want to disappear Cause all you can find is fear, fear in you Have you felt like you are almost breaking down So go away with me We gonna live with excuses All you see is nothing real Live with excuses All you see is nothing real Love your own tricks Take what you only need Know what make you lift Blind but no scared Live with excuses All you see is nothing real
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Telepathy 03:45
The days we had were stolen We just stuck in the middle of night Is it really worth trusted? Conversations over closed eyes Once you've found An easy way out You will forget everything about me I think I could have enough Until the time for growing up Can't you see Through your telepathy Please love me Like in fantasy Blind for beauty But I crave your lips Now we need no words Pretend like you're clean As if we knew anything obsessed But the things we cannot resist Are always in the end of nowhere We used to hide from something so right Covered with our strangeness Sometimes I can tell you Without any ways to communicate Can't you see Through your telepathy Please love me Like in fantasy Blind for beauty But I crave your lips Now we need no words Can't you see Through your telepathy Please love me Like in fantasy Blind for beauty But I crave your lips Now we need no words

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This Single is only available in digital format

"Live With Excuse" is and advance Digital Single for the upcoming Mini-LP of STILL DREAMS

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► Watch the official video-clip of "Live With Excuse" on: bit.ly/3yg0xTY
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While the Japanese duo, STILL DREAMS (who we were introduced to recently with that fantastic single, “Ultra Doomed”), gets their debut on Elefant Records ready, we are advancing a few of their songs as Digital Singles. And “Live With Excuse” is an absolutely spectacular appetizer. It is one of the more intense songs from their upcoming Mini-LP, “Make Believe”, full of dense, epic, euphoric textures, but with an absolutely addictive and dreamy melody. As if a Phil Spector of the XXI century had made a beyond perfect pop album with BLONDIE. We can see this in the video, directed by Keisuke Maeda, that has Ryuta and Maaya surrounded by nature, playing music in a river, later letting themselves be bathed in fireworks at nightfall. It is an epic explosion of euphoria, working from the pop essence of groups like M83 and ARCADE FIRE. A wall of sound hiding major melodies, or a reformulation of MY BLOODY VALENTINE’s universe through synthesizers.

But this single also comes with a previously unreleased song, “Telepathy”, which lets their clubbier facet loose (and this time the leading vocals are from Ryuta), and evokes NEW ORDER at their most festive and luminous. All of this with an incredible new manga-inspired cover by KNN.5.

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STILL DREAMS BIOGRAPHY:
Maaya Wachi: Vocals / Ryuta Wachi: Guitar, Production

Ryuta and Maaya already had musical projects together before starting STILL DREAMS. In their younger days, they were in a quartet called JUVENILE JUVENILE, where Maaya played the drums and sang backing vocals, and Ryuta played the guitar and sang lead vocals. The group released several CDs and 7” Singles on the label Flake Records, and they shared a stage with other indie-pop bands from outside of Japan, like NIGHT FLOWERS, LETTING UP DESPITE GREAT FAULTS and HAZEL ENGLISH. Their sound already showed their leanings toward shoegaze and pop-spirited melancholic ambiances.

In 2016, the group disbanded, and in the same year our two protagonists got married. At the same time, STILL DREAMS was born, with the roles reversed: Maaya is now in charge of lead vocals, and Ryuta of the guitars and production. The first songs came about with the intention of bathing the sounds of Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin and A-HA in the indie-pop and shoegaze spirit. And all of this within a lyric landscape marked by science fiction and video games, of which Ryuta is a huge fan.

In 2018, they released their first EP, “Theories”, in CD-format on the Flake Records label, and their first live show came soon after. It took place in Osaka in January 2019, sharing the stage with the band SOBS from Singapore. On stage, the duo becomes a sextet, giving their presence its necessary organic feeling. This is confirmed on their mini-tour in Shenzen and Hong Kong. That same year, they released a second EP “Lesson Learned”, released in digital format by Melt Records, and on cassette by Miles Apart Records. In 2020, they started recording demos of their new songs, they sent them to Elefant, it was love at first sight, and we began to work together and prepare their first release on our label, a Mini-LP on 10” vinyl for our collection “New Adventures In Pop”. It will come out in 2021 and will be preceded by a series of Digital Singles.

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released January 22, 2021

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STILL DREAMS Osaka, Japan

Still Dreams is a Japanese duo made up of the couple Maaya and Ryuta, with widespread tendencies to indie-pop, synth-pop, shoegazing and dream pop. In their younger days, they were in a quartet called JUVENILE JUVENILE. In 2016, the group disbanded, and in the same year our two protagonists got married. At the same time, Still Dreams was born. ... more

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