Tucker Zimmerman turns Dream Me a Dream into a happily untidy farewell

Tucker Zimmerman’s Dream Me a Dream receives 22 June review attention, and it now carries the impossible weight of farewell. Completed before Zimmerman and his wife Marie-Claire Lambert died in a January house fire, the album follows the Big Thief-assisted comeback that brought the cult singer-songwriter back into wider view. The record is framed as loose, reflective and gently untidy rather than grandly final, which may be why the emotion lands harder. Zimmerman spends much of the album looking backward without turning nostalgia into theatre: old poems, bohemian memories, friends, San Francisco rooftops and love as the north star. The synths and ambient touches do not make the record futuristic so much as dreamlike, as if a folk song wandered into a room full of soft machinery. Dream Me a Dream feels like a candle guttering, but still warm.

Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/tucker-zimmerman-dream-me-a-dream/