Remember Summer transform blink-182's "All The Small Things"
Remember Summer are Northern Irish hailing Paddy Conn of indie pop band Swimming Tapes and English vocalist Angelina Dove.
Having a mutual indulgence for worlds gone by, Remember Summer use an enchanted distraction of dusty synths and wistful poetry to create their nostalgia drenched dream pop. Songs that embody a poignant dream-state of long lost summer nights, or the cosy loneliness of a desert road trip on the cusp of September; the leaves will fall, the changing of the seasons inevitable but the magic days, in those last hours of summertime feel like they really could last forever.
The pair met in the summer of ’16 at the Forest Gate cafe where they both worked and started making up songs to pass days in a hot kitchen. Dove recalls, "Summer of ‘16 became the year of collaboration for Paddy and I. We started swapping ideas at work. It all started as a bit of fun really, sort of a distraction to stem boredom but when the cafe went bust the following year and we both got fired we realised that we'd started something we missed more than frying eggs. Since we live 5 minutes away from each other we've kept it up. This is ‘Remember Summer’".
Now, the duo are beginning to unveil their new music, as they enter a fresh chapter. Following the release of their Miley Cyrus "Wrecking Ball" cover, Remember Summer have now dropped "All The Small Things." The blink-182 track has been transformed into a slow-paced, hauntingly ethereal release, where Angelina's echoing vocals float delicately over melancholy instrumentation.
Angelina shares, “I came across the lyrics for that song and read them out of context, and it got me thinking. There was something haunting about them, a kind of disenchantment particularly in the line about roses left by the stairs. It took me right back to quite a lonely period of my life where flowers softened grief and became symbolic tokens vs romantic gestures. I asked Paddy to play the chords (again out of context and without bringing up the original) and it kind of went from there…”