Warren Dunes

So, we have Aquamarine. Sweet and sad and buoyant and as deep as the sea. Songs to dance around to. To soundtrack a chilled-out beach day. Or maybe to have a good cry over. Glittering glinting sunshine on cool blue waves of electro-synth psychedelia. Subaquatic swirling twirling melodic complexity. A record where you can blissed-out body surf on crashing choruses, or let time slip as you marvel at the universe behind your eyelids.

Led by keyboardist/vocalist Julia Massey, Warren Dunes unique style of PNW Beach Rock is born from the cold waters and grey sky beaches of the Salish Sea, and is highlighted by Massey’s double keyboards and crystalline voice soaring over chiming guitars and thundering drums from husband Jared Cortese and his brother Dominic Cortese.

Warren Dunes' second LP, Aquamarine, is based on a journal Julia wrote while on a therapeutic mushroom trip through Seattle's Carkeek Park. The record grapples with the artist’s compulsion and purpose with their craft. And, as usual, the themes of death and rebirth are ever present. Befitting a record that grapples with the eternal, all of the songs are either directly or indirectly about water and the sea.