Montreal musician Ruby McKinnon makes gauzy, dreamy music under the name Flower Face, and she became a Stereogum Artist To Watch on the strength of her 2024 album Girl Prometheus. Now, she's back with a hazy, glamorous, awfully pretty new song called "Bad Dream." If Mazzy Star recorded a song specifically for the Drive soundtrack, it might sound a bit like this. Here's what McKinnon says about it:
..could you have imagined it all? and if none of it is real, who is to blame? sometimes you fall so deep into this imaginary argument that you forget you have no real opponent, and like in a dream everyone is you, no one acts freely, you are fighting different versions of yourself, and you will never win, and you can project a whole life onto anyone who’s in front of you, but as soon as they open their mouth the illusion is shattered, it only works when they’re sleeping, it only works when they’re leaving, it only works when they’re not there at all.
McKinnon directed her own "Bad Dream" video; check it out below.
"Bad Dream" appears to be a one-off single right now, but it feels like the kind of song that you put out when you've got more music ready to go.
