Postcards is a dream pop/shoegaze trio formed in Beirut, Lebanon. They are preparing for the release of their new album, After the Fire, which will be due out later this Fall. They have recently released the haunting new single “Home is so Sad,” a song that was inspired by a Philip Larkin poem of the same name and was written after the horrible August 4th explosion.
The song taps into a haunted sense of melancholic with a lingering sadness and presence that is hard to shake. The song has a lush blissfully shoegazy sound that feels like a hypnotic mix of Beach House and Slowdive.
You can find it streaming below, along with a quote from the band about the recording of the album which definitely helps you get into the headspace of the song:
The album was written between January 2020 and January 2021, in a year where we experienced the slow demise of an uprising we thought would change the country, an economic collapse with no end sight, a crushing pandemic, and just when we thought things couldn’t sink any lower, an explosion that blew up half the city––courtesy of our politicians’ incompetence and corruption.
The album is one of mourning, mourning for our city, its people, for our absurd past and suspended future.
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