Subsonic Eye - Singapore Dreaming

Subsonic Eye - Singapore Dreaming Subsonic Eye - Songs from Singapore Dreaming (Live)

In less than a ten-year span, Subsonic Eye have established a deep catalog across jangle- and indie-pop spectra. On their 2023 album All Around You, the Singaporean five-piece refined their signature snappy hooks with a renewed appreciation for the natural world’s entanglement with their urban milieu. Ever enraptured by nature and their surroundings, Subsonic Eye have dedicated much of their music to celebrations of their environment.

Their fifth album, Singapore Dreaming, centers their hometown through a more focused lens. Where All Around You comprised a space to sit with the complex feelings inspired by the intense world we inhabit, Singapore Dreaming is that intense world itself — Subsonic Eye’s interpretation of their high energy urban context refracted through straight-to-the-point, poppy, ergonomic songs tinged with tension that could explode at a moment’s notice.

Despite the newly honed vision, Singapore Dreaming still has all of Subsonic Eye’s signature elements: spellbinding walls of tone, hooky riffs, zippy rhythms, and punches in the perfect place — all led by singer Nur Wahidah’s dreamlike voice, whose vaporous and velvety character always makes the layers whole.
Singapore Dreaming’s lead single “Aku Cemas” picks apart feelings of anxious inadequacy inspired by our capitalist setting before balancing the scale with a reverent climax in which Wahidah proclaims “come get a hold of yourself / the world’s not ending / you’re not dying.” On album closer “Blue Mountains,” Subsonic Eye offer a reprieve from capitalist dread with a breath of fresh air inspired by a visit to the Australian mountain range. Of her experience, Wahidah writes, “when I’m out in nature, I’m in awe, I’m speechless, I’m humbled — I’m a student in the most beautiful classroom that has ever existed.”
This casual wisdom permeates the entirety of Singapore Dreaming, which takes its title from the movie of the same name. Overlapping themes of consumerist abandon and suffocating work culture tie the two together, both works a critique of the disregard for the people around us and our blurry separations between work and life. But Subsonic Eye refuse to succumb to the pressures and chaos, instead choosing to ground themselves in their culture and community. 
released June 11, 2025

Nur Wahidah - vocals
Daniel Borces - guitar
Jared Lim - guitar
Samuel Venditti - bass
Lucas Tee - drums

Mastering Engineer: Paul Gold
Drums recorded at PK Records
Everything else recorded by Subsonic Eye
Mixer: Jared Lim
Cover Artist: Tiny Studio 

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Subsonic Eye - All Around You

Subsonic Eye - All Around You

Subsonic Eye are enraptured by nature. On their 2021 album, Nature of Things, the Singaporean five-piece explored the tolls of human indulgence through raw tonality and zippy jangle pop, poignantly celebrating the spirits of a natural world fast disappearing. Though the album saw the group trade their noisy dream-pop tendencies for a cleaner sound, the result was no less propulsive, instead pushing the band to refine their songwriting.

On their fourth full-length All Around You, Subsonic Eye expand on this relationship to nature with a renewed appreciation for its coexistence with urban cities. The hectic, fast-paced character of urban life refracts through snappy, invigorating hooks, prisms of entrancing tone layered with singer Nur Wahidah’s restless, velvety lilt.

All Around You’s lead track “Yearning” unravels the band’s religious dedication to the idea that nature is all around us, that we are whole with it. Sung over a nimble guitar melody and tension-building rhythm, “dunk my head into waters / wake me up fully new now” arrives in direct reference to Wahidah’s newfound perspective that we over indulgent humans can still find a harmonious balance with nature.

As if to make this harmony manifest, Subsonic Eye balance the scales with “Circle” and “J-O-B”, songs that pick apart the brutal and monotonous cycles of our capitalist setting. Though the subject matter can grind you down, the songs instill purpose and uplift listeners with undeniably hooky songwriting that combines the best of Alvvays and Sonic Youth.

The ten songs that comprise All Around You also comprise a space to sit with the complex feelings inspired by this intense world we inhabit. Rather than succumb to doom, Subsonic Eye relish the opportunity to meditate on these uncomfortable emotions to find their way to the ultimate realization that beauty is all around us.
released September 13, 2023

Subsonic Eye is
Nur Wahidah
Daniel Castro Borces
Jared Lim
Sam Venditti
Lucas Tee

Recorded and Produced by Subsonic Eye
with Spencer Tan on bass

Mixed by Kean Reformado
Mastered by Paul Gold
Drums recorded at 4th Wall Studios

Photography by Christopher Sim
Art Direction & Layout by Raphael Ong 

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Subsonic Eye - Melt the Wax

Subsonic Eye - Melt the Wax "Hurt Your Head" by Subsonic Eye (official video)

On Subsonic Eye’s Melt the Wax, the Singaporean five-piece present a concise collection of their richly layered, quick-paced indie-pop. Over three songs which explore singer Nur Wahidah’s upbringing, Melt the Wax boasts Subsonic Eye’s penchant for snappy, invigorating pop-rock songs jangling with clarity and entrancing tone. The EP marks the group’s first release in over a year, and serves as a brief resting point before a forthcoming full-length album.
released November 17, 2022

Recorded and Produced by Subsonic Eye
Drums recorded at 4th Wall Studios
Mixed by Jared Lim
Mastered by Paul Gold

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Subsonic Eye - Nature of Things

Subsonic Eye - Nature of Things

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Shedding heavy fuzz and fanfare for rawer tonality and wearied lyricism, Singaporean noise rock mainstays Subsonic Eye reinvent themselves on their third full-length release Nature of Things.
Coming to grips with their place in a strange world, the band finds refuge in confessional intimacy with a grounded palette that evokes the album’s namesake – nature – whilst pondering the toll of human indulgence.
Capturing beauty in the liminal, Nature of Things finds the band poignantly celebrating the spirits of a natural world fast disappearing. In a world that seems to be closing in, their sonic metamorphosis becomes a source of life-affirming refuge. By embracing their most immediate instincts, Subsonic Eye take their boldest steps forward.

released January 15, 2021
Recorded and Produced by Subsonic Eye
Mixed by Kean Reformado
Mastered by Paul Gold
Synths on "Consumer Blues" by Dominic Yuan
Drums recorded at Snakeweed Studios

Thank you to Lucas' parents for letting us jam in their living room, and Bryan Joel Lim & Jun Xiang Soo for their beautiful words.

Released on Middle Class Cigars.
Released in Japan on 12" Vinyl on Fastcut Records [http://fastcut.jp].

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