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Dreamself

by Coda Chroma

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unitim This album fitted perfectly with my melancholic nightly drives, yet lifting my spirit. Favorite track: I'm Not Fighting It.
Jennifer Jupiter
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Jennifer Jupiter Brilliant heaven bliss amazing. If there is a CD, I will buy that also.
Wow another thrilling joy in the life! Absolutely tremendous in every way. "Frankenstein" into "Bookmark" is simply mind blowing. Favorite track: Frankenstein.
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kub_77 The best Australian album I've come across in 2023. Masterful songwriting, detailed and subtle production. So impressive. Favorite track: If I Imagined.
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Jazzdub57 Coda Chroma (Kate Lucas) have a unique sound, to my ears anyway. I've played this new album a few times but suspect it requires more close listening to really gain full appreciation of it. My feeling thus far is it's their best.
The singles "If I Imagined" "My Garden" and "I'm Not Fighting It "are all excellent. Favorite track: If I Imagined.
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1.
It’s a lot to begin with a lonely thread I might add, where’re you going with this? So I follow it out of my sensible head You know I don’t want to be the owner of it I like to think that I’m open to anything But I might need a little more convincing I let my Dreamself carry me on its back I’m happy here I’m not fighting it I’m not fighting it so You can think it over Take away whatever you want Another minute in the hour of the day I’m in All at once familiar and unsettling I couldn’t carry back all that I had to bring While I waited by the road I was singing something Couldn’t put my finger on what it was Some old record beaming in from the past I decided to take the rest of the afternoon off Wait right here for my call I’m not fighting it I’m not fighting it so You can think it over Shrug your shoulders oh You don’t have to love it It won’t bother me
2.
If I Imagined that never happened What would I put there instead of the dead air? Cut it out of a magazine From a page in a book I read Pull it out of a movie scene Overheard in a conversation from a couple behind me There was a level of give and take I was fascinated, guilty for the taking of If I pretended there was a different ending Maybe I moved to a place where the days grew Dark as than any night you know Where they keep all their lights on Covered up to the roof with snow I'd be talking that language Would I make it up in my dreams? Where I keep all my baggage There it goes again, watch it on the carousel
3.
Backwards and forwards ever Always in transit, never now Show me a single moment Holding my breath I’m over everything It's only phase Making a grab for attention I give a wave to crazy I’ll feel better in a day Back in the theatrette Movie dust beams between our heads I didn’t follow the story Couldn’t help thinking about What was coming next And how’re they going to fake it Or know what to feel It’s our very existence That they’re stealing It's only phase Making a grab for attention I give a wave to crazy I’ll feel better in a day
4.
My Garden 04:50
Call it all, call it all away And then be done Without a word Save a little, save a little face Well you had fun Didn't you? Give yourself, give yourself a round of applause, here's the door Hats are off, now they're off and lying where they were Once before I could never own my garden I decided not to fight If my heart begins to wander Shine a torchlight in my eyes Open up the roof for me Hope is just a kind of grief Maybe I should settle down Fall into the queue I've been known to get a bit defensive If I'm up against the wall But strike it off, strike it off the record Because it's not really what I think If it's all, all a little game To you I'm lost, I'm lost I could never own my garden I decided not to fight If my heart begins to wander Shine a torchlight in my eyes Open up the roof for me Hope is just a kind of grief Maybe I should settle down Fall into the queue The queue, the queue The queue, the queue Could be good, could be good Could be good, could be good I could never own my garden I decided not to want it I could never own my garden I decided not to want it
5.
Castle 03:38
Step away from your castle Its walls are cardboard anyway Lay down your paper sword Skull and cross, they look bored I hold your face You can weave your story Better than I know myself, I am to blame I hold tight to the myth I need the magic in my life too It's all very well to expect the strings to swell When you’re feeling the distance you have made Ringing that bell, it’s an emergency, come on and help me But you’re more than an arm’s length away Come down from your treehouse Before the evening disappears us Put away fairy tales, there is no witch There is no other world It's all very well to expect the strings to swell When you’re feeling the distance you have made Ringing that bell, it’s an emergency, come on and help me But you’re more than an arm’s length away
6.
Attic 05:05
I’m in the attic chalking up days I’m in the traffic choking on haze I’m at the gate now walking on the footpath Alongside a drain I see the green man underneath the cloud I have a feeling I’ve been thinking out loud Body of water drink me up I’m inside again And we thread these things Together again Together again Together like they were meant for each other I’m on the ceiling pressing that tin I see the pattern curling out from within I’m at the threshold, hanging like a mobile From a delicate string I see the blue light coming form the screen It’s on your face now like a silent scream Tell me if you’re out there, beam me up I’m inside again And we thread these things Together again Together again Together like they were meant for each other
7.
Health 03:27
I don’t think about my health Leave it up to someone else I pretend I’m filled with light And not that other stuff I’m not here but when I am The conversation turns around Fixes on the ups and downs And I’m so glad when it’s done And I can get back to my daydream Focus on that beam of light Making its way through the finite Scene that’s playing out of time And I’m so sick of this play And the never-ending power games
8.
Fingers 04:10
Way at the end, waving like kelp At the bottom of the ocean Reaching out to touch the rolling waves I am dependent on fingers that bend to my Will and curl around the shapes I want to hear them play Keeping busy is the best thing I can do I will lay all my attention on to you Down from the headland, hands in the black sand Eyes to the sky I’m reaching out to touch the rolling clouds Keeping busy was the best thing I could do Now I’ll lay down underneath the crescent moon
9.
Frankenstein 05:02
Here comes a thought, there goes another Like a confetti cannon blowing its load A million among them, watching them fall Silently vogueing, paper rain oh Frightening and free, you settle on just one Ready for the guillotine, I lumber like a Frankenstein Call it vulnerability, I have my fun, I’ve had my time Open up that can, look at them writhing Try to imagine letting them go Where will they end up, lost in the garden Out of the sunlight, down at the bottom Brush off the dirt, what’s done is done Ready for the guillotine, I lumber like a Frankenstein Call it vulnerability, I have my fun, I’ve had my time A million among them, a million among them
10.
Bookmark 02:04
What were you thinking When you came to rest upon it? I dogeared the same pages Underlined everything on them Macheted through words To get to the heart of the feeling Cutting away, Revealing the parallel lines in the tale

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Dreamself is the third studio album from Kate Lucas aka Coda Chroma and celebrates the liminal space between awake and asleep, where stories unfold through abstraction and try to make sense of experiences and situations.

Dream-self plays with shadows and light in a landscape where fragile introspection is at home alongside upbeat jangle-pop, and synthetic sounds mess around with acoustic instrumentation. Matched with the immaculate work of producer Damien Charles, the album features a string ensemble, swirling layers of synthesisers, a driving rhythm section and ethereal backing vocals by Natalie Lewis.

The cover art was designed using MidJourney AI software then reverse digitised by artist Vicki Nash who painted a real life version of the image on canvas. artist Ebony Gulliver photographed the work, and now here it is... digitised again.

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released March 31, 2023

All songs written by Kate Lucas except Theatrette - co-written with Damien Charles
All songs produced, engineered and mixed by Damien Charles
All tracks mastered by Lachlan Carrick at Moose Mastering

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Coda Chroma Ballarat, Australia

Coda Chroma (aka Kate Lucas) is an award-winning songwriter from Ballarat, Victoria, and is described as “one of the most innovative and noteworthy musicians in Australia.” (Tone Deaf, 2021)

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