LP – Limited Edition Blue Vinyl.

Dream Big, the second studio album from Irish band Soda Blonde, is far more than a collection of catchy and cathartic pop songs; its a mantra a mission statement from four lifelong friends. Its their promise to themselves, and a message to all who come along for the ride: A reminder that life is precious, fragile, and fleeting, so we might as well dream big and hold nothing back.

Following two successful introductory EPs (2019’s Terrible Hands and 2020’s Isolation Content), they released their debut album, Small Talk, in 2021. The LP was subsequently nominated for RTs Choice Music Prize for Album of the Year and received rave reviews from Paste Magazine, Atwood Magazine, and The Irish Times, who called it “a record so articulate and expressive that its title has to be a wry in-joke.”

The band have grown tremendously in the two years since their debut, and it shows. Whereas Small Talk was an anxiety-fuelled coming-of-age record about navigating their twenties, Dream Big is a mature awakening to the world at large; one that dives deeper and hits harder than its predecessor.

It definitely was a conscious titling, that relationship between Small Talk and Dream Big, the bands guitarist and producer Adam ORegan explains. Small Talk was trying to decipher whether everything meant something or nothing. With Dream Big, weve arrived at the point that it means something.

Tracklist:

A1. Midnight Show [3:26]
A2. Bad Machine [3:28]
A3. Boys [3:43]
A4. Dream Big [4:56]
A5. Space Baby [4:21]
A6. WWDWD [3:38]

B1. An Accident [4:59]
B2. My First Name [4:10]
B3. Why Die For Danzig [4:37]
B4. Less Than Nothing [4:30]
B5. Going Out [7:19]