“All Those Little Things” is a single released today from Alice Dreamt, the solo project of Detroit-based artist Timothy Michael Jones. The track, crafted solely by Jones in his bedroom, draws heavy influence from the City Pop scene of 1980s Japan, and other electronic groups such as Yellow Magic Orchestra and Kraftwerk.
“Lyrically the song points to a wish to achieve success through creative endeavors,” Jones says. “The pitch-shifted vocals are meant to impart a child-like nature to the narration of this childhood wish of mine. Basically I wanted it to sound like my childhood was singing.”
Formed in 2017 as a solo project of Detroit-based multi-instrumentalist Timothy Michael Jones, the sound of Alice Dreamt is a curious blend of noise pop, synthpop, and neo-psychedelia that some have described as sounding like the “evil cousin of Beach House” or “a futuristic, psychedelic hell-band phasing through the AM radio of some alternate reality”.
Much of this sound finds its roots in Timothy’s childhood, where, growing up off of 8 Mile Road in the early 2000s, he watched the meteoric ascent of a local musician named Eminem, and became enamored with the idea that artistic pursuit could take one to those heights.
This childhood was likewise soundtracked by the constant spinning of his father’s record player, where Eleanor Rigby and Itchycoo Park were his lullabies, and records from up and coming bands such as Neutral Milk Hotel had as common a place in his mind as any of the thousands of burned CDs of contemporary hits his dad also kept in frequent rotation.
It was only a matter of time until Timothy was given a guitar for his fifteenth birthday, and began in earnest on musical projects that had such lofty aims as “writing the next Good Vibrations” while still in Junior High. Years passed, and multiple projects and bands were formed until the maturation of his sound arrived with the “Alice Dreamt” moniker in 2017. Since the establishment of that project, and since its debut album in 2020, Timothy has maintained a breakneck pace of five albums in those two years.
Listen To “All Those Little Things”
