Shoegaze band, Picture Postcard release guitar driven track

Music Review | 4th June, 2025 Picture Postcard

Self-labelled as dreamo, Picture Postcard, are a band that sets themselves apart from contemporaries by fusing together the ethereal lush soundscapes of dreampop/shoegaze with the more visceral elements of 90's and early 2000's emo.

Born of the ashes from one of Ireland's most promising shoegaze bands, Picture Postcard consists of AJ Das (Guitar/Vocals), Sean O'Reilly (Bass/Backing Vocals), Ignas Baranauskas (Guitar), Gabriel Motos (Drums) and Rohan Bhattacharya (Synths) and feature members of Skyless, SNAFU and Epilogue.

After announcing themselves to the world in February 2025 with the debut single, October, Picture Postcard have returned with their latest single, Returning. The track opens with a drumbeat before the levee breaks as overdriven guitars and bass join in, a tsunami of sound that expands exponentially once Rohan's synth joins.

The groove of the track pulls us into the verse, AJs vocals ran through a transistor radio, sounding like a call from the past, a half-faded memory. It's fitting then that lyrically the song draws inspiration from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the psychological surrealness of the movie lending itself to the dreamy ambiguous lyrics, that encapsulate how it could feel to forget someone you loved so dearly.

We it came time to record, the band tracked drums at Beardfire Studios, with the rest of the track recorded at AJ's box room home studio, which allowed the band the time and space to layer in guitars ran through various fuzz and reverb pedals to create their gargantuan sound. The song was mastered by Max Lajoie known for his work with various emo/post-hardcore bands, it was important to have someone familiar with the genre to ensure they captured the bands sound correctly.

Picture Postcard - Returning

The single, Returning, is available through all streaming platforms.

Photo: Old Crows Promotions