It’s Nice to See a Lake in Your Eyes by Carol Maia and Jeremy Gustin

For fans of Bjork, Pram, Moribet, dream pop, and the joy of hearing from an old friend, It’s Nice to See a Lake in Your Eyes by Carol Maia and Jeremy Gustin yearns for unity with the great spirit above but settles instead for online video calls, assembling a delicate post pop record with transcontinental collaborators in an exercise of the autonomy of mind. Such precise digital environments, a playground where bright synths mingle with understated percussion in support of a gentle, ethereal vocal, emphasize a shared spiritual connection from across a great distance, one brought into the flesh by the miracle of instant communication. In a world so dour on the trajectory of the internet, we’re increasingly quick to forget the sorts of creativity made possible in this new age, digital space finally enabling our eternal dreams of detaching our minds from our bodies and interacting with others on a purely spiritual basis. Once we step back from the battlefields of social media into curated communities, our spiritual experience represents a detailed pocket symphony rather than pure dissonance.