Farewell to May

With its dreamy atmosphere and wall-of-sound production, “Farewell to May” marks a captivating sonic shift for Sodapop, serving as their official foray into the world of shoegaze.

​Trading their previous style for a textured, immersive landscape, the track wraps listeners in a haze of swirling, distorted guitars and heavily reverbed vocals. True to the classic shoegaze tradition, the melody feels beautifully buried beneath layers of dense instrumentation, and one could say that it is mimicking the bittersweet feeling of a changing season. But the name doesn’t really mean anything that profound. It is just a cool name. It is a bold, melancholic transition that highlights Sodapop’s evolution and their ability to capture raw, nostalgic emotion through sheer volume and atmosphere.