“Down With The Upward” nearly didn’t occur. However Ryan Policky was lucky sufficient to reconnect with Mark Gardener simply lengthy sufficient to hammer it out earlier than the Journey vocalist/guitarist resumed touring.
“It had this uplifting feeling I might see morphing over the course of the composition, very similar to the hope of digging ourselves out of an advanced stretch of social divide,” says Policky of the monitor’s piano-based beginnings. “Mark was into the vibe of the monitor, and we set our sights on getting it performed earlier than he needed to get again on the street.”
The otherworldly goth/shoegaze mashup is the primary new music from A Shoreline Dream since 2024’s Whitelined LP. Policky and band cofounder Erik Jeffries are presently engaged on their eighth album with an eye fixed on a 2026 launch. “Down With The Upward” is the fourth ASD track co-written with Gardener.
“Mark’s lyrics hit me in such a approach that this visible melding of the previous, the longer term and the unknown locations inside ourselves immediately got here to thoughts,” says Policky. “I needed the video to have this sense of being thrown right into a scenario the place communication breaks down over many eras and plenty of conditions, each dreamlike and actual. We used 8mm cameras, fashionable digital tech and telephones to speak the heartache of dropping a detailed connection to modern-day stress—that feeling of each despair and optimism many people have felt over time.”
We’re proud to premiere A Shoreline Dream’s “Down With The Upward” video.
—Hobart Rowland
