Polish singer/songwriter Dawid Bestry crafts a mesmerizing dreamscape with his new single “w monochrome”, featuring Victorrria, a shimmering shoegaze meditation on ephemeral beauty and unfulfilled longing. The track unfolds like a half-remembered daydream, where walls of reverb-drenched guitars dissolve the boundaries between reality and imagination, creating what might be 2024’s most beautifully melancholic three-minute escape.
From its opening notes, “w monochrome” wraps listeners in a cocoon of atmospheric textures – cascading guitar lines shimmer like light through stained glass while the rhythm section pulses with the steady heartbeat of nostalgia. Bestry’s vocals float just beneath the surface, their whispered delivery enhancing the song’s intimate, confessional quality. The production masterfully balances shoegaze’s signature wall-of-sound aesthetic with moments of startling clarity, mirroring the lyrical theme of grasping at transient moments of connection.
What begins as a monochromatic lament gradually blossoms into full chromatic splendor, the musical equivalent of watching polaroid colors develop. The track’s genius lies in its emotional duality – simultaneously aching with unfulfilled desire while radiating the warm glow of possibility. Like staring at old photographs that somehow feel both familiar and alien, “w monochrome” creates a peculiar kind of homesickness for experiences never quite had.
Dawid Bestry has created more than a song with “w monochrome” – it’s an emotional time capsule that lingers long after the final notes fade. This is shoegaze at its most transportive and tender, proving Bestry to be one of the genre’s most exciting emerging voices.
