Stream: Dreamers, ‘Screws’

Kevin Bronson on May 25th, 2018

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L.A. trio Dreamers arrived with a bang in 2016, scoring a radio hit with the single “Sweet Disaster” and going deeper with songs such as “Painkiller” and “Drugs” from their debut full-length “This Album Does Not Exist.”

The band — singer-guitarist Nick Wold, bassist Marc Nelson and drummer Jacob Wick — bring some sonic muscle to their rock radio-ready new single “Screws,” which chronicles a disintegrating relationship with battering-ram force. Says Wold: “[It’s] a tortured love song about losing your mind — the lyric is ‘I’m lying naked and my brain has lost its screws.’

“We really wanted to make a passionate song in the style of early ’90s industrial music, which often dealt with the darker sides of romance, while bringing it into the world of 2018 sonically,” Wold adds. “It came out of the crumbling of logic and reason that love can bring, twisted dreams and memories, ghosts and insurmountable walls that can be created in a mind left to its own devices. I had a strange feeling at the end my last relationship, that I was most lonely when I was with her.”

While not quite industrial strength, “Screws” has the potent snarl of a good ’90s head-banger, and it’s a good send-off for the trio’s big 2018 tour plans.

||| Stream: “Screws”