Better Dreaming
by
Tune-Yards
Distraction, depression, and heartbreak reign supreme in 2025. "Making art in this day and age for me is a battle for focus; we're in an age of interruption," says Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards on sixth album Better Dreaming. Proudly waving an anti-fascist, liberation, freak flag, this album contains some of Tune-Yards smoothest, funkiest, and most direct pop music to date, and yes, you can dance to it. After covid-isolation, and time away from touring and live shows, the desire to be moved by music was undeniable. Recorded as a duo, all but one of these songs are built around Merrill's drum looping and rhythm building, as they were on some of their early albums. It is ferocious in its invocation of self-love, collective action, dance floor liberation, ego-death deliverance, and a future we could all thrive in. When diving into the present darkness of the world, Tune-Yards asks themselves how much literal energy and joy can be conjured and pumped through the music.