Montreal duo Bodywash offer a seductive mix of dream pop, shoegaze, and trip-hop influences with an experimental bent. After releasing their lavishly designed full-length debut, Comforter, in 2019, the band's 2023 sophomore effort, I Held the Shape While I Could, took a turn toward more intricate, layered production and darker songwriting moods.
Bodywash formed at McGill University in 2014 when Chris Steward and Rosie Long Decter began jamming together in a campus rehearsal room after bonding over a shared fondness for shoegaze and dream pop. They recorded an eponymous 2016 E...