Ethereal alt-pop artist MOLTENO continues her ambitious elemental series with ‘Daydream’, a spellbinding new single and the second preview of forthcoming EP ‘Element 3’.
Following ‘Treading Water’, the new track pushes deeper into the EP’s water-inspired world while exploring the seductive unreliability of nostalgia. Here, she looks back at an unhealthy relationship and examines how distance can soften difficult memories, gradually transforming something damaging into something strangely desirable.
Repeating analogue synth patterns create a dreamlike circular motion, while electronic and live percussion provide an understated heartbeat beneath sweeping synthetic strings. The result feels simultaneously comforting and uneasy, mirroring the experience of returning to memories you know are better left alone.
Already supported by the likes of BBC Radio 6 Music, Radio X, Wonderland and Earmilk, MOLTENO continues to build one of alt-pop’s most distinctive creative worlds. And with ‘Daydream’, that universe becomes even more intoxicating.