Bad//Dreems Reveal “New Breeze” Video

Adelaide’s Bad//Dreems have today released their fourth single that is taken from their forthcoming full length, HOO HA!, that is scheduled for release via Farmer & The Owl & BMG Records on May 19th. Led by an unforgettable Canned Heat-esque flute hook and a nod to The Birthday Party‘s Hee-Haw, Bad//Dreems set out to capture the frustration, malaise, and confusion of the post-pandemic world in New Breeze. In a similar vein to the spontaneous pub prose of previous single See You Tomorrow, frontman Ben Marwe leads the listener in a vaudevillian romp, bringing novel ways to continue our inexorable decline in banal turpitude. 

The song is chock-full of the band’s characteristically wry observational lyrics, in which high and low culture, Australian slang and historical and contemporary references combine in catharsis. Times may have passed for the everyman protagonist at the centre of many of HOO-HA!’s songs, but old frustrations remain, just pissing in a New Breeze.