Diamond Day - Connect The Dots (2024) Hi-Res

Diamond Day has unveiled their debut album, Connect The Dots, a hypnotic and shoegaze alt-pop fever dream. With Rosier’s Béatrix Méthé and Grammy-nominated Quinn Bachand at the helm, the Montréal duo enlist a dream pop A-team–including Jorge Elbrecht (known for his work with Japanese Breakfast and Wild Nothing) and feeble little horse’s Sebastian Kinsler–to synthesize their expansive aesthetic over 10 dreamy tracks.

Béatrix’s haunting vocals soar through the band’s retro-futuristic musical ether, flowing through the record’s themes; identity, heredity, mental health, death, and rebirth. These topics sparkle through otherworldly soundscapes ranging from mysteriously aggressive Not Going–electronica made with vintage digital keyboards and oral history archives–to Noisemaker, a low-bit shoegaze anthem with janky breakbeats and organ drums.

Méthé’s dynamic song cycle is jumpstarted by the record’s grungy yet uplifting title track and quickly mulls over an array of emotions like ferocious Fiction Feel, Come Over Here’s seductiveness, and highly angsty Centre-Ville. The meditative song cycle winds down with an ambient instrumental called Turning before leading us to their closer, Tina; an ultra-personal ballad about anosognosia.