Knower "I Must Be Dreaming"

Within the modish framework of Windows 95-spawned digitalism (sprinkled with a dash of J-pop reverence), Genevieve Artadi and Louis Cole’s aesthetic comes off as a post-hipster equivalent of twee. On their latest single, “I Must Be Dreaming,” the pair’s life- and love-affirming stance traverses all, from an earnestly infantile video and lyrics that seriously hold their heart on the sleeve, to a repetitive, nursery rhyme quality of the chorus. A quality that does not, however, clash with Knower’s insane skill of harmonizing jazzy chords of organs and string pads with Artadi’s Bacharachian vocal melodies. With “I Must Be Dreaming” Knower have added “catchy” and “classicistic” (for lack of a better word) to an already long list of positive adjectives one might use to describe their ecstatically-eclectic music.