Plain Mister Smith Singer-Songwriter, based in Vancouver and London, serves up “Dream To Be Free,” a poignant new single that captures the feeling of nostalgia through the blur of fleeting memory, caught between places, time zones and emotions. Reunited once again with the Canadian songwriter Jordan Klassen, on their first song together since “New Wave Sangfroid,” they deepen a creative chemistry that has been growing steadily.
“Dream To Be Free” influenced by a visit to Kyoto and the city’s Daimonji Festival, has a fine spiritual undercurrent. The song echoes the festival’s symbolic role, escorting spirits home, conveying a sense of release and transition, into sound. Swinging for the fences, the track favors calmness and relies on atmosphere and emotion to do the heavy lifting.
“Dream To Be Free” is a quietly powerful moment in Plain Mister Smith’s
growing catalog, giving listeners a place to press pause and reflect on
what will be released. It’s a song that doesn’t charge toward freedom,
it wafts there, one luminous moment at a time.
The song, written and produced by Mark Jowett, lives off of restraint. There is the presence of a cinematic aspect to the setting, conjuring up a feeling of movement, train windows, nighttime streets and moments that slide away before you can grasp them.
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