“As Dreams Are Made On” (Fountain Child song)

FountainChild_AsDreamsAreMadeOn_crop — Fountain Child, “As Dreams Are Made On” cover (cropped)

“As Dreams Are Made On,” by UK based artist Fountain Child, is a rainy soundscape of downtempo beats and production with a great depth of field sound. Distant, impressionistic tones flicker through a swirling fog of melodic drone while vocals seem to announce stops along a train route in mantra-like fashion as an ethereal warble rather than coherent words, ghostly samples of a child ask why it’s so dark and offering sage observations on the nature of things as a shuffling beat carries a gentle but definite momentum. The influence of Burial, especially that artist’s epochal 2007 album Untrue, is obvious as a the flow of tone and texture echo the UK garage aesthetic including elements of ambient music in the layers of atmospherics. The song brings you along on a drift-y journey over a dusk-hued landscape in the late fall when the sun is setting early and you have time to indulge your mind’s wanderings between the priorities of your day life and plans for the evening. Listen to “As Dreams Are Made On” at Spotify and follow Fountain Child utilizing any of the links below.