Poptastic Confessions!: Dreams Of Leaving by Parralox

Friday, October 22, 2021

Dreams Of Leaving by Parralox

Dear Poptastic Readers,

Parralox on their 4th consecutive Friday of releases. This time, it is with the track "Dreams Of Leaving." In case you missed the previous 3, Parralox have remade the Human League's 1980 album Travelogue, and they are releasing one track every Friday spanning 17 weeks. We realized last week that we will only be able to cover the first 10 or 11 tracks this year. In December, we stop featuring new music for our year-end countdown. We'll have to catch up with the December releases in January.

"Dreams Of Leaving" is almost 7 minutes. The first 3+ minutes are a standard mid-tempo pop song, then it goes all wonky in the middle before it comes back again. John is on lead vocals and we quite like this. To be honest, we don't remember the Human League's version. The music video is filled lots of 80s goodness clips. Have a look ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMVFq2wd0jQ

"Dreams Of Leaving" was written by Ian Craig Marsh, Martyn Ware, Phil Oakey, and Philip Adrian Wright. It was produced by John von Ahlen. It is available on digital outlets everywhere. Buy your copy today! We've added it to our 2021 Poptastic Confessions Playlist on Spotify. You'll also hear "The Black Hit Of Space", "Only After Dark", and "Life Kills" there. Enjoy!