Half Dreaming – Cold Fall, Now Gone
Riverside, California — released December 20, 2025
Shoegaze
With Cold Fall, Now Gone, Half Dreaming deliver a quietly affecting five-track statement that feels shaped by distance, memory, and emotional afterimages. Emerging from Riverside, California, the band operate in a space where indie songwriting meets shoegaze atmosphere, favoring restraint over spectacle and mood over momentum.
The EP unfolds like a season slipping away. There’s a sense of cool detachment running through the songs, but it’s never empty. Guitars blur and soften at the edges, wrapped in reverb that feels less like noise and more like weather. The textures drift rather than surge, allowing melodies to surface gently before dissolving again. Nothing rushes. Everything lingers.
What gives Cold Fall, Now Gone its weight is how naturally it balances clarity and haze. Beneath the washed-out guitars and soft-focus production, the songwriting remains grounded and intimate. Vocals sit low and unforced, carrying a reflective tone that suggests acceptance rather than confrontation. This is shoegaze stripped of excess, closer to introspective indie rock than towering walls of sound.
Emotionally, the EP circles themes of departure and quiet change. There’s no dramatic rupture here, just the slow realization that something has already passed. The songs feel like moments caught just after the fact, when the cold has already settled and you’re left tracing its outline. It’s a subtle, human kind of melancholy, rendered with care.
Cold Fall, Now Gone positions Half Dreaming as a band attentive to nuance and atmosphere, unafraid of understatement. In five concise tracks, they create a cohesive emotional space that rewards close listening and repetition. It’s music for late hours, for empty rooms, for sitting with thoughts instead of escaping them.
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