Toronto’s Tallies are back with their first release since their self-titled 2019 debut and it continues on in the band’s tradition of beautiful dreampop tracks reminiscent of The Sundays and Cocteau Twins.
The video for the band’s new single “No Dreams of Fayres” finds vocalist Sarah Cogan on a leisurely winter walk that includes stops at Deja Vu Discs (a message flashes on screen to remind us all that Sloan’s One Chord to Another “is a really good record” – fact) and a bowling alley.
According to Cogan, the song is about dealing with depression: “‘No Dreams of Fayres’ is a reflection of thoughts that I remember going through my mind when I stayed still in bed. Feeling as though staying still in bed was the only thing that would help the sadness – basically, disconnecting myself from family, friends, and having a life. Finding the way out of depression was hard but possible. ‘No Dreams of Fayres’ is also about the realization of letting yourself feel real feelings but not mistaking them for emotions. I had to learn to get a grip of what I wanted out of life and go for it with no self-sabotage – which was music, as cliché as it sounds. It pulled me out of bed, physically and mentally.”
That sounds like a sentiment that many can relate to.
“No Dreams of Fayres” is out now via Kanine Records / Hand Drawn Dracula / Bella Union.