Swiss psychedelic rock trio Dirty Sound Magnet released their fourth studio album, Dreaming In Dystopia, on October 20, 2023, through Australian label Wild Thing Records. The band has released the opening track “Melodies From Distant Shores” on video. It is a song centered around vocalist and guitarist Stavros Dzodzos’ upbringing in the folklore-steeped town of Fribourg/Freiburg, Switzerland.
“Fribourg is an old mystical town that has many gloomy legends featuring dragons, witches, and the Devil himself,” explains Dzodzos. “With ‘Melodies From Distant Shores’ I wanted to depict how I always felt like a stranger in a strange world growing up in the city, where it also doubled in cultivating this fear of the unknown as well through its mysterious history.”