KRAMIES is back with the sublime new single “Hollywood Signs”, the first glimpse of a new album ‘Goodbye Dreampop Troubadour’ – coming this Autumn.
As the summer scurry fades and autumn winds drift eastward, the days grow shorter, the lights dimmer – Kramies makes his timely return. And “Hollywood Signs”, the lead single from an upcoming new LP, is a clear departure in sound for the cult Ohio songwriter.
Three years after his critically acclaimed self-titled LP—which earned multiple Album of the Year accolades and saw Billboard christen him “The Dreampop Troubadour” – in 2025 Kramies begins anew and turns the page to his next chapter with its follow-up.
Operating in a genre of his own devising that he dubbed Folklore Dreampop – a blend of dreamy textures, poetic myth, and spectral beauty – his self-titled debut offered a collection of songs steeped in wonder that found the singer-songwriter drifting deeply through a series of otherworldly realms.
But for his next act, Kramies marks a creative shift from any former labellings with the decisively titled new album: ‘Goodbye Dreampop Troubadour’.
Seeking to expand his creative world into new dimensions, his upcoming work finds him collaborating with Grammy-winning producer Mario McNulty (David Bowie / Prince) to conjure dusky soundscapes shaded with nighttime colors and a nostalgic melancholia. Unlike previous releases that have been scattered with the stardust of luminaries such Jason Lytle (Grandaddy), Patrick Carney (Black Keys), Alma Forrer, Jerry Becker (Train) and more, his new album is a stridently confident solo creation, with Kramies playing 90% of the instruments across the album.
Arriving like a story whispered in twilight: it’s a record that beckons its listener closer with spine-tingling intimacy and takes them to a world unlike any Kramies has conjured before. From the ominous opener “Perfectly Dreadful” with all its twisted complexities, to the majestic higher planes reached by “Social Light”; the weightless multi-harmony wonders of “Kite Ropes” and its elegant partner “Between The Moon”, a stately duet with Allison Lorenzen that draws the album to a close; Kramies creates sonic landscapes to get lost in time and again. With echoes of Mercury Rev to Radiohead, Mazzy Star to Nick Cave, the resultant seven expansive tracks, coalesce into what is perhaps Kramies’ most spellbinding and adventurous work yet.
An album that drifts darkly through painterly scenery, ancient mythology, and sepia-tinted memories that flicker and crackle like old Super-8 films; ‘Goodbye Dreampop Troubadour’ is at once soothing, stirring, and subtly unsettling all at once, and arguably his most complete vision to date.
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1. Perfectly Dreadful
4. Goodbye DreamPop Troubadour
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