Keepsake

Marcus ViniciusNov 11, 2026603 plays

After a stellar EP that set my expectations through the roof, Hatchie expands her sound on "Keepsake", not only employing stargazing dream pop but coupling her usual sound palette with glowing synths and efervescent beats - the result is obviously stellar as well. With a knack for delightful hooks she crafts the perfect ethereal-pop atmosphere by encapsulating us in a trip throughout all of the 90s dream pop/alt rock revisited through her more modern lens. It's a very consistent take in all of those genres - you have the sultry and dark melodies that are filled with feedback and slightly noisy guitar riffs mixed with subdued EDM beats that bands like Curve perfected, while fusing t it with the anthemic choruses from New Order's "Technique", passing through starry-eyed dreaminess from the likes of The Sundays with its angular and remarkable vocals shouting perfect hooks backed up by delicious jangly guitars, arriving at the etherealness but ultimately poppy atmosphere from early Cranberries and its immaculate melodies that transcends while giving you nostalgia and terrain feelings while also landing on the softer shoegazey edges from Souvlaki and its lonely-romantic musings through feedback-ish emotions, sparkle everything up with your obligatory dosage of Cocteau Twins cotton-candy abstractiveness and boom, you have the perfect Dream Pop Nostalgia album - Hatchie captures this feeling perfectly while pushing her own characteristics within the genre, with her soaring voice elevating the melodies even more, while she belts her emotions, breaking the ethereal barrier and throwing us on the middle of her emotive atmosphere. Like all good Dream Pop albums, "Keepsake" is able to take you into a ride and make you forget everything from your life for a moment, with Hatchie's perfect ear for hooks and melodies and her carefree voice, she is maybe using familiar tools to build her sound, but doing it so flawlessly that it's impossible not to fall for its charms. A true gem.

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