4/23/2025

Dream, Ivory Announce New Album And Share Lead Single "Solar Eclipse"

DREAM, IVORY 

ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM & SHARE LEAD SINGLE “SOLAR ECLIPSE”

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WHEN YOU COME BACK I HAVE SO MUCH TO TELL YOU

OUT JULY 18TH


US DATES WITH BOA

Dream, Ivory Press Photo by Liam Walsh 

Los Angeles duo Dream, Ivory have announced their new album, When You Come Back I Have So Much To Tell You, due out July 18th. Inspired by anime and J-pop, lead single “Solar Eclipse” chronicles a romance between the sun and moon over incandescent dream pop. 


On the single, Louie Baello shares “Solar Eclipse is a song that tells the story of two lovers destined to reconnect. We wanted to explore a concept from nature as they find their way back to each other, using the idea of an eclipse to capture that emotional journey.”


Growing up in Southern California, brothers Christian and Louie Baello were each other’s universe. “We experienced the world through the same frame,” Christian says. That frame was heavily influenced by the number of times they moved, their identity as first generation Filipino Americans, and their parents’ love of music. Enlisted in piano lessons by their dad at a young age (“it wasn’t a choice,” Louie jokes), the Baello brothers cut their teeth covering the music their parents were raised on, everything from ABBA and the Bee Gees to the Beatles. Christian helms the production on Dream, Ivory tracks while Louie is the primary lyricist/vocalist, but every song they make is a true collaboration. Music has always been central to their sense of self-perception, but it’s just one of the brothers’ many talents. Together, they make all of Dream, Ivory’s artwork, videos, and visuals, it’s working: They have over 450 million streams across their catalogue and their debut single “welcome goodbye” is RIAA certified gold.


When You Come Back I Have So Much To Tell You follows Dream, Ivory’s 2022 debut LP, About a Boy, an album that interrogates difficult topics surrounding mental illness and suicidality with grace and conviction. When You Come Back… incubates a distinctive period in the brothers’ lives defined by dislocation and addiction. When their parents decided to move back to the Philippines, Louie moved to Los Angeles to live with Christian and his girlfriend, Lilia Shibuya, who contributed writing to the album. Though the brothers have been prolific since their teenage years, they stagnated as cohabitants. “We just didn’t really give a fuck about creating in that moment, there was just no inspiration in our lives,” Christian says. “Instead of writing, we’d get shitfaced drunk. It was bad. We’d record a riff, then take a shot.” 


The brothers attribute that lack of inspiration to their early achievements. At 19, raking in tens of thousands of listeners on a single track felt like a major accomplishment, but the more Dream, Ivory grew, the benchmark for success leveled up. “There’s so much riding on our old shit, coming up with something new felt like going to the fucking moon,” Christian says. The moon being far, Christian spiraled. “I was drinking so much and getting caught by my brother, my girlfriend,” he says. “I was kicked out of our place.” But bottoming out eventually renewed his sense of purpose. Christian got sober, moved back in with his loved ones, and a songwriting breakthrough expanded their imagination of what Dream, Ivory could be.


WATCH OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR “SOLAR ECLIPSE

During the SoundCloud rap boom, Christian and Louie started uploading their own DIY offerings to the internet, but that short-lived rap project soon evolved into Dream, Ivory. Largely inspired by shoegaze, surf rock, and shapeshifting artists like Damon Albarn, the brothers quickly amassed an organic fanbase online. 


Love, or the promise of it, has guided the Baello brothers over vast emotional distances. The sense of longing that inspired the title runs through the album and is felt most acutely on “Sometimes,” another Shibuya co-write about unrequited love. “Felt the wind in Anaheim/ Like a touch you left behind/ Sometimes I just want it to stay,” Louie sings over a watery guitar part that sounds distinctly tied to the brothers’ home state. “Missing you is like snow in California.” Earnest and pining, “Sometimes” distills that yearning title, When You Come Back…, beautifully. “You could even apply the title to the distance between your current self and your past self,” Louie muses. “There’s no one way to interpret it.”


“Solar Eclipse” is preceded by “At Zero,” a blistering and catchy track Alt Press praised, writing “their strongest and most alluring, traces the roots of shoegaze, wobbly alt-rock, and the murk of SoundCloud uploads.” Their first single of the year,  “Lost Angeles,” tackles addiction head on over sugary guitars and auto-tuned vocals. The new singles follow their Jay Som collaboration “Milk,” which was praised by Stereogum, Consequence, Paste, Nylon and more. 



WATCH OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR PREVIOUS SINGLES  “AT ZERO” & “LOST ANGELES

After  a run of sold out shows in LA, London, and Paris earlier this year, Dream, Ivory will embark on a run of tour dates with English rock icons bôa, kicking off in Orlando on April 30th. Tickets available HERE.


Tour Dates


April 30th - Orlando, FL @ The Plaza Live

May 1st - Tampa, FL @ The Ritz Ybor

May 3rd - Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse

May 4th - Charlotte, NC @ The Underground

May 6th - Washington, DC @ 930 Club

May 7th - Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr Smalls Theatre

May 9th - Buffalo, NY @ Electric City

May 10th - Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall

May 12th - Madison, WI @ Majestic Theater

May 13th - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue

May 15th - Denver, CO @ Summit

May 16th - Ft Collins, CO @ The Aggie


* w/ bôa




Tracklist:

01 I Don’t Even Know You

02 Bleed

03 At Zero

04 Orange

05 Bullet Train

06 All Good

07 Solar Eclipse

08 Sometimes

09 Not The Best Idea

10 Lost Angeles

11 Plastic Song

12 Nancy’s Knife

13 Mayday

14 Tangerine Dream


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