Kallai — We Are Forever
Released October 17, 2025 — Portland, Oregon
Genre: Dream Pop / Post-Punk / Shoegaze
Rising swiftly from Portland’s ever-fertile underground, Kallai return with their debut full-length We Are Forever — a record that feels both timeless and immediate, shimmering with emotion and drenched in reverb. Following their promising early singles Always/Never and Palisades (the latter earning a place on KEXP’s Audioasis Best of 2024 playlist), the band’s first LP expands their sonic universe into something immersive, melancholic, and transcendent.
Formed in 2024 by musicians from Trance to the Sun, Lost Echoes, and Luscious Apparatus, Kallai’s lineup fuses experience with fresh intensity. Together, they’ve crafted a sound that draws from the ghosts of dream pop and the pulse of post-punk — lush, layered, and cinematic, yet grounded in raw human feeling.
We Are Forever unfolds like a lucid dream: guitars cascade and dissolve into clouds of delay, basslines move with hypnotic precision, and drums pulse like distant thunder. The vocals drift through the mix like whispers from another room — emotive, yearning, and ethereal. There’s a sense of searching at the core of the record, as if every song is a fragment of memory trying to find its place in time.
The production embraces both the grandeur of shoegaze and the angular clarity of post-punk, blending shimmering beauty with rhythmic tension. It’s music built equally for introspection and movement — the kind of sound that fills the space between isolation and release.
Lyrically, We Are Forever captures fleeting moments of connection, loss, and transcendence. It’s an album about permanence in impermanence — about the need to hold onto something real even as everything changes. The title itself feels like both a declaration and a question: what does forever mean when everything fades?
With this release, Kallai establish themselves as one of Portland’s most compelling new voices, bridging eras and emotions with effortless grace. We Are Forever is more than a debut — it’s a fully realized vision of what modern dream pop can be: rich, restless, and achingly alive.
Ethereal yet grounded, nostalgic yet new — “We Are Forever” cements Kallai as torchbearers of the modern shoegaze revival.
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