It's easy to forget that LA dream-gaze project Tashaki Miyaki is only just now releasing its first LP. The band has been a lowkey local favorite since it first began playing together in 2011, keeping a somewhat mysterious profile while releasing a handful of singles and an EP along the way (not to mention this killer cover of the Everly Brothers's "Dream").It's also easy to forget because Tashaki Miyaki's long-await debut, The Dream (out April 7 via Metropolis Records), is just that strong, and decidedly worth the wait. Both sprawling and refined, the album sees singer-multi-instrumentalist Paige Stark floating through psych, grunge, and dream pop-spun tales of LA, offering up a bigger picture that collectively could double as the soundtrack to David Lynch's next project.The record is produced by Stark and engineered by Dan Horne (Allah-Las, Cass McCombs), alongside contributions from Jon Brion and string arrangements from Nate Walcott (Bright Eyes). Its latest single, "Out of My Head," premiering on Noisey below, is a testament to the group's cinematic influences, a lilting piece of orchestral pop about confronting anxieties that also assuages them. Put it on, close your eyes, and tune out."It's a song about wanting to shut off my mind," Stark says. "I suffer from various anxieties and depression that can become exhausting. As John Milton says in Paradise Lost, 'The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.' Musically I wanted it to feel the opposite, soothing and expansive…like a daydream."Listen to the premiere of Tashaki Miyaki's "Out of My Head" below and pre-order The Dream here.
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Andrea Domanick is Noisey's West Coast Editor. Follow her on Twitter.