Music Friyay: Night Dreamer, Angelo De Augustine, Low

By Joanna C. Valente

Here’s some music, new and old, you should listen to and check out:

Night Dreamer - Treasure

Night Dreamer, a new band based in LA, just released their debut EP this October. It’s a strangely eerie dream that is both like wading into a warm ocean slowly and floating - and then suddenly finding yourself in a darkly lit basement alone. My favorite? “Heat Waves.”

Angelo De Augustine - Swim Inside the Moon

De Augustine’s 2017 album is a perfect folk album, similar to Sufjan Stevens (who he collaborated with on his 2019 single “Time”), but somehow more intimate in a childlike way, impish and stark. My favorite? “Crazy, Stoned, and Gone.”

Low - “Let’s Stay Together”

This 2018 cover of Al Green’s hit song is really incredible and puts a new spin on the beloved love song, originally released in 1972.

Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York. They are the author of Sirs & Madams, The Gods Are Dead, Marys of the Sea, Sexting Ghosts, Xenos, No(body), #Survivor (forthcoming, The Operating System), and is the editor of A Shadow Map: Writing by Survivors of Sexual Assault. They received their MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Joanna is the founder of Yes Poetry and the senior managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine. Some of their writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Them, Brooklyn Magazine, BUST, and elsewhere. Joanna also leads workshops at Brooklyn Poets. joannavalente.com / Twitter: @joannasaid / IG: joannacvalente / FB: joannacvalente