Dream On Dreamer Ditch 'Fake' Sound For New Album

On the phone from his family home in Germany, a freshly-risen Marcel Gadacz verbalises the stretching of his bones. Barely on 8.30am, he's back with his family for the first time in two years, enjoying some quality time with his bloodline and getting a new work visa sorted before things start getting hectic with Dream On Dreamer once more.

With a constant stream of strong punk, metal and 'core bands emerging from Australia in recent years, it's become a tough task for young acts to distance themselves from the pack. Some resort to surface differences: hair, clothing, make-up. Others try and draw attention with sensationalism, be it through film clips, social media or performances. But the groups that have gone the furthest the fastest seem to be the ones that simply concentrate on the one thing that does matter – quality songs.

Dream On Dreamer have done this without all the additional bullshit. They're a band that's built on music, and have succeeded by putting out a solid product and having a strong belief in that – nothing more. This next chapter will be written on those humble foundations no doubt, but understandably Gadacz is invigorated by ideas of what the immediate future for the newly-blooded five-piece holds. “We've just been waiting for [this] moment for almost a year now for a new album to come out, and it's finally coming together and all the stress is going to be relieved and we'll see where it takes us,” he smiles.

Songwriting sessions for Loveless started in August of last year and the frontman concedes that it took a lot of hard work for the band to be happy with the material. However, with a far longer creation time to play with (their 2011 debut full-length Heartbound was made in just six weeks), Dream On Dreamer could afford to crack the whip more forcefully in the quest for musical honesty.

“It just gave us a lot more time to concentrate on how good we are and to push ourselves even harder, y'know,” Gadacz explains, “and even tweak the little things that we wouldn't have had the time to before and make it sound really organic but still... just making it real. That's what the whole point of this album was, just having that real sound that we always wanted to have, but mixing that into a sort of modern production; we wanted to have a real modern sound in a way that it's not fake, so it's still organic and it still has a lot of character to it, and that's exactly what I think we've achieved with that.

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