Two years Nabihah Iqbal worked on the follow-up to her debut
Weighing Of The Heart (2017). The impetus for this album lay in the helplessness she experienced in the early 2020s. A robbery took place at her music studio, in which she lost almost all of her material. In addition, she suffered a broken hand and suffered from severe burnout. She also lost her grandfather and had to deal with the corona
… pandemic. Therefore, the music this time developed more in her head, therefore, on this album has an ethereal character and is introspective in nature. Iqbal combines elements of dreampop, shoegaze and electronica into an intoxicating whole, in which she lets her guitars spread wide. The unpleasant things she experienced give the album a melancholy undertone. It didn't have to become completely melancholy, however, because Iqbal experienced that things also eventually get better again. Therefore, the melancholy is nicely balanced by a somewhat more hopeful sound. That contrast makes Dreamer a wonderful album, on which, as a listener, you are overwhelmed by dreamy music with an emotional charge. (JvQ)more
