Dream, Ivory recently announced their forthcoming LP, When You Come Back I Have So Much To Tell You, will drop July 18th. “Solar Eclipse” chronicles a romance between the sun and moon over incandescent dream pop. On the single, Louie Baello shares “Solar Eclipse is a song that tells the story of two lovers destined to reconnect. We wanted to explore a concept from nature as they find their way back to each other, using the idea of an eclipse to capture that emotional journey.”

Growing up in Southern California, brothers Christian and Louie Baello were each other’s universe. “We experienced the world through the same frame,” Christian says. That frame was heavily influenced by the number of times they moved, their identity as first generation Filipino Americans, and their parents’ love of music. Enlisted in piano lessons by their dad at a young age (“it wasn’t a choice,” Louie jokes), the Baello brothers cut their teeth covering the music their parents were raised on, everything from ABBA and the Bee Gees to the Beatles. Christian helms the production on Dream, Ivory tracks while Louie is the primary lyricist/vocalist, but every song they make is a true collaboration. Music has always been central to their sense of self-perception, but it’s just one of the brothers’ many talents. Together, they make all of Dream, Ivory’s artwork, videos, and visuals.

When You Come Back I Have So Much To Tell You follows Dream, Ivory’s 2022 debut LP, About a Boy, an album that interrogates difficult topics surrounding mental illness and suicidality with grace and conviction. When You Come Back… incubates a distinctive period in the brothers’ lives defined by dislocation and addiction. When their parents decided to move back to the Philippines, Louie moved to Los Angeles to live with Christian and his girlfriend, Lilia Shibuya, who contributed writing to the album. Though the brothers have been prolific since their teenage years, they stagnated as cohabitants. “We just didn’t really give a fuck about creating in that moment, there was just no inspiration in our lives,” Christian says. “Instead of writing, we’d get shitfaced drunk. It was bad. We’d record a riff, then take a shot.”

The brothers attribute that lack of inspiration to their early achievements. At 19, raking in tens of thousands of listeners on a single track felt like a major accomplishment, but the more Dream, Ivory grew, the benchmark for success leveled up. “There’s so much riding on our old shit, coming up with something new felt like going to the fucking moon,” Christian says. The moon being far, Christian spiraled. “I was drinking so much and getting caught by my brother, my girlfriend,” he says. “I was kicked out of our place.” But bottoming out eventually renewed his sense of purpose. Christian got sober, moved back in with his loved ones, and a songwriting breakthrough expanded their imagination of what Dream, Ivory could be.

Dream, Ivory
When You Come Back I Have So Much To Tell You
Tracklist

01 I Don’t Even Know You
02 Bleed
03 At Zero
04 Orange
05 Bullet Train
06 All Good
07 Solar Eclipse
08 Sometimes
09 Not The Best Idea
10 Lost Angeles
11 Plastic Song
12 Nancy’s Knife
13 Mayday
14 Tangerine Dream

Dream, Ivory 2025 Tour Dates

April 30th – Orlando, FL @ The Plaza Live
May 1st – Tampa, FL @ The Ritz Ybor
May 3rd – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
May 4th – Charlotte, NC @ The Underground
May 6th – Washington, DC @ 930 Club
May 7th – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr Smalls Theatre
May 9th – Buffalo, NY @ Electric City
May 10th – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
May 12th – Madison, WI @ Majestic Theater
May 13th – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
May 15th – Denver, CO @ Summit
May 16th – Ft Collins, CO @ The Aggie

* w/ bôa

Pre-order When You Come Back I Have So Much To Tell You HERE