The band Remember Summer comprises Northern Ireland’s Paddy Conn of indie pop band Swimming Tapes and English vocalist Angelina Dove.
Remember Summer shares a mutual fondness for days gone by, using a combination of enchanting dusty synths and wistful poetry to create their nostalgia-filled dream pop. Their songs capture a bittersweet dreamlike state reminiscent of long-lost summer nights or the solitary yet comforting feeling of a road trip through the desert as September approaches. While the inevitable change of seasons looms with falling leaves, those final summertime hours feel like they could truly last forever.
The pair met in the summer of ’16 at the Forest Gate cafe where they both worked and started making up songs to pass days in a hot kitchen. Dove recalls, “Summer of ’16 became the year of collaboration for Paddy and I. We started swapping ideas at work. It all started as a bit of fun really, sort of a distraction to stem boredom but when the cafe went bust the following year and we both got fired we realised that we’d started something we missed more than frying eggs. Since we live 5 minutes away from each other we’ve kept it up. This is ‘Remember Summer‘”.
Now, the duo are beginning to unveil their new music, as they enter a fresh chapter. Following the release of their Miley Cyrus “Wrecking Ball” cover, Remember Summer have now dropped “All The Small Things.” The blink-182 track has been transformed into a slow-paced, hauntingly ethereal release, where Angelina’s echoing vocals float delicately over melancholy instrumentation.
Angelina shares, “I came across the lyrics for that song and read them out of context, and it got me thinking. There was something haunting about them, a kind of disenchantment particularly in the line about roses left by the stairs. It took me right back to quite a lonely period of my life where flowers softened grief and became symbolic tokens vs romantic gestures. I asked Paddy to play the chords (again out of context and without bringing up the original) and it kind of went from there…”
For further information on the artists, please visit the following links:
- https://www.instagram.com/remembersummerofficial/
- https://www.facebook.com/remembersummerband/
- https://www.youtube.com/@remembersummer/
- https://open.spotify.com/artist/7eGGiI2vPdpXdXqQvAInga?si=xVviM8i6QIK0hjpynG68jw
Photo Credit: Gregg Houston courtesy of LPR
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