Jax Dream-Pop Act Everything to Me Embrace Change on “Not the Same”

As we approach that indistinct time of year when you might as well tell time with a melting Dalí clock, Jacksonville’s Everything to Me has just the soundtrack. The dream-pop project of Andrew Cardin (DeathWatch 97, RATE OV DECAY) and Jake Phillips (Glass Chapel) recently released a new EP, breezeblocks, the follow-up to 2022’s Modern Loss.

On Bandcamp, the duo describe breezeblocks as an attempt “to bring a moment of music and peace into the waking world,” and single and centerpiece “Not the Same” achieves this as well as anything on the record. Cardin and Phillips interweave a gossamer web of acoustic and electric guitar riffs, layering brisk drum machine, ethereal synth chords and steady bass beneath.

Meanwhile, Cardin murmurs only a sparse, impressionistic handful of lyrics, as if building the entire plane out of the chorus. As a result, his vocals—and their heartbroken undertones—land most like a mantra, the hypnotic repetitions drawing you ever deeper into the instrumental’s cushy cloud of electronic dream-pop. And when it’s all over, nothing has changed, yet everything is different.

Listen to the rest of breezeblocks via Bandcamp.