Bay area textural pop group Torrey delve deep into a translucent dreamworld on their self-titled sophomore album. These twelve guitar-forward songs drift through classic shoegaze and rainy day indie rock sounds, the entire album blurring into a stream of fragmented bliss.

Siblings Ryann and Kelly Gonsalves found a new freedom while creating this album, setting up a controlled recording environment that allowed them to follow every impulse and make their most fully considered work to date. It’s a prism of different shades of soft-focused brilliance, bleary enough to purposefully obscure its deft construction without ever dulling its impact.

Torrey’s pre-existing foundation of catchy songwriting is emboldened by the limitless approach of the recording sessions. Each song has its own personality, but feels connected to the rest; like a carefully curated playlist. This means the layered guitar tones and smeared vocal harmonies of ‘No Matter How,’ pivot seamlessly into Deal sister-informed tunefulness on the buzzing and clattering ‘Hawaii’ before moving into warped tropical ambience, glacial shoegaze atmospheres, and fuzzy guitar shredding.

Torrey:

1. Rain
2. No Matter How
3. Moving
4. Bounce
5. Hawaii
6. Garage Intermission
7. Slow Blues
8. Pop Song
9. July (And I’m)
10. Happy You Exist
11. Really AM
12. We’re Dancing (End)