Memory and Fantasy Collide in Summer Wiley’s Subversive Alt Pop Debut, ‘Wet Dreams’

Making her debut with a subversive flourish, Summer Wiley instantly proves she is more than another fleeting name in pop. Wet Dreams is a track born from the depths of surrealist pop, delivered by a New York artist whose cinematic vision reaches far beyond mainstream formula. Summer’s journey began as a classically trained vocalist before she turned self-produced enchantress, building her sound from the ground up in the concrete maze of the city. The debut exists on the borderlands of trip-hop, pop, indietronica and alt-RnB. With every innovative twist in the progressions, there are fleeting echoes of the spirituality of Bjork, the artfully diaphanous timbres of Kate Bush, the perennial indie stylistic panache of London Grammar, the moody reverberations of Portishead, and the vocal power of Within Temptation and Evanescence. But as a subversive conduit of sonic seduction, reminiscences have a tendency of cascading away from Wiley while the mournfully evocative single drips with demure etherealism and the raw firepower of a temptress letting her raw wounds breathe in a euphonic, reverb-soaked atmosphere. Drawing from her classical background, Summer Wiley writes, composes, and produces music that weaves orchestral textures with pop, New Age, and 1960s psychedelia. Her lyrics, wily and […]

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