The Ultimate Dreamers – Echoing Reverie [Spleen+ / Wave Tension Records]

It is a pleasant surprise to find recent projects that are seriously committed to genres such as post-punk. Spleen+ is a new subsidiary of the Belgian label Alfa Matrix, a label with more than two decades of history that has been releasing great releases by famous bands and authors such as Front 242 or Plastic Noise Experience. Among the objectives of Spleen+ is to give a chance to all those artists and bands with talent that need support, and that their style is linked to some of the musical genres that emerged as a result of post-punk, although they emphasize that it is a new label oriented to musical genres such as post-punk, coldwave or new wave.

Spleen+ was born in 2023, and so far the results have been quite satisfactory. In a very short time it has released an EP and an album by the Italian IMJUDAS and an EP and two albums by The Ultimate Dreamers. On the first album, the Belgian quartet compiles unreleased tracks created between 1986 and 1990, while the second album is a new studio work produced by this long-lived band that, despite having been inactive for so many years, was resurrected during the period of confinement we suffered with COVID, releasing a series of old demos.

The Ultimate Dreamers return with the same spirit but with an updated sound. Echoing Reverie proves that this band still has many years of life left in them and that the passing of the years suits them very well. With a powerful punch and strong bass lines, their new sonic approach shows that The Ultimate Dreamers are a renewed band and very well prepared for the current scene.

Release date CD version: March 17th, 2023 on Spleen+

Release date vinyl version: May, 2023 on Wave Tension Records