Genre/Influences: Dream-Pop. 

Format: Digital.

Background/Info: Oneiros Way is a Milan (Italy) based male-female duo unleashing their debut album of nine songs. 

Content: The debut part of this work is slowly driven and carried by vibrating bass lines. Somewhere in between ballads and Electro-ballads the album however progressively evolves towards a more explicit Dream-Pop approach. The songs have been sung by both members although there also is an instrumental cut revealing the Cinematographic influences of the band. 

+ + + : From this album I especially keep in mind the beautiful “Raining Frogs”. This song is a dreamy Ballad-piece reflecting sweetness and appealing for imaginary images. I also like “Immersion (Singolo)”, which is pure Dream-Pop accentuated by the sweet female vocals. I also have to say a word about some of the cool crystalline sound treatments. 

– – – : There for sure is some potential hiding  behind this band, which now has to elaborate the writing and polishing some elements of the production.

Conclusion: This album sounds like a debut-work, but might be a basis to improve different elements of the production. Let’s keep an eye on Oneiros Way.  

Best songs: “Raining Frogs”, “Immersion (Singolo)”. 

Rate: 6½.

Artist: www.facebook.com/Oneiros-Way-104512051979471 

Label: www.facebook.com/idischidelminollo 

About Oneiros Way

Oneiros Way is a male-female duo based in Milan, Italy, working in dream-pop. Discogs holds an entry for the project but lists no profile text, and no earlier releases are documented, so “The Dawn Is Near” stands as the debut album.

The record was released on 24 September 2021 as a digital download and published by I Dischi del Minollo. It holds nine tracks: “Scura”, “Luna”, “Glass Bell”, “Alba”, “Raining Frogs”, “Rainfall”, “Immersion”, “Mourning” and “Conformista”. Giacomo Carlone recorded the album at Supermoon Studio in Milan and co-produced it with the duo, and Andrea Berni De Bernardi mastered it at Eleven Mastering in Varese.

This review is the first Side-Line coverage of the duo, and no later Oneiros Way release has been documented in the archive since.

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