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MIYNT’s Psychedelic Dream Pop Song “Lonely Beach” Makes a Good Case for Choosing Loneliness Over a Bad Relationship

“Lonely Beach” finds MIYNT employing a warping and distorted psychedelic melody across guitar, rhythms and pairs it with vocals sounding like something recorded to VHS and then recaptured and boosted. The effect is a sound that is both intimate and raw yet dreamlike. The lead vocals and where it sits with the instrumentation and the ghostly backing vocals is reminiscent of the more jagged aesthetic of Portishead’s “Half Day Closing” in which lo-fi and the sound of a song breaking down slightly and coming back together is made into a beautifully disorienting aspect of the song. But here things don’t go quite off the rails and MIYNT reigns in the chaos and harnesses that kind of energy to create an unconventional pop song about waiting in life for the right person or situation to come along to engage and inspire your heart and then ends with the line “waiting for somebody that you’ll never be” as though an explanation for why things won’t or didn’t work out but doing so in one of the more kind of blunt ways possible. It’s also a song that seems to express the feeling that being lonely can be preferable to settling for someone that doesn’t suit you because that’s essentially choosing to stay lonely while making room for drama and static for the illusion of companionship. Listen to “Lonely Beach” on Spotify and follow MIYNT on Instagram.

Miynt’s Video for “Of the sun” Cleverly Contrasts Scenes of Stockholm Winter With a Spirit of Warm Playfulness

The video treatment for Stockholm-based synth/dream pop band Miynt’s song “Of the sun” looks like a fan video for a Boards of Canada song. Except that it’s winter shots in Sweden, part performance with presumably the singer of the group wandering around the city offering observations and poetic statements in affectionate tones like “I wanted you to see that you knew you saw light in my eyes.” There’s a playfulness to the track that makes it irresistible when paired with its going off any standard pop songwriting trajectory with experimental tonal flourishes like the processing on the vocals to allow it to ring out and echo in perfect sync with the song’s wide-ranging dynamic centered around its eccentric set of melodies. At times it sounds like a hybrid of dream pop, and psychedelic funk and disco especially with that finely accented bass line. The guitar lead switches between that warping chorus and what sounds like a bit borrowed slightly from Level 42’s 1985 hit “Something About You.” Maybe that’s the hint of jazz and funk in the song but it really fits in with the warm tone to the song in nice contrast to the aesthetic of the music video. And watch that video for the song on YouTube, follow Miynt at the links below and look for the group’s debut LP Lonely Beach due out in May 2022.

Miynt on Instagram

The Hazy Psychedelic Drift of Miynt’s “Peaches” Will Coax You Into Daydreamy Reverie

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Miynt, photo by Linn Koch-Emmery

The hazy layers of melody on Miynt’s new single “Peaches” suggests the soft lighting of a dream sequence. The breathy vocals swimming in distorted synth washes, arpeggiated bell tones, warp-y/melt-y strings and anchored by soft percussion and bass accents has the hallmarks of a kinship with 70s independent cinema with its own internal logic that draws you in to accepting its unusual dynamics as they are and going along for the ride. It also has the sound of the kind of song that would fit on a Sophia Coppola soundtrack where idiosyncratic, moodily atmospheric music always seems welcome. But this would be for a film Coppola might make about a Drop City-esque art collective in the 1990s. Hypnotic and alluring, “Peaches” will take you out of your everyday mundane zone. Listen on Soundcloud and follow Miynt’s further explorations of inner space at the links below.

https://miynt.lnk.to/StayOnYourMind
facebook.com/miynt
https://instagram.com/itsmiynt