{"title":"White Poppy","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"ataraxia","title":"Ataraxia","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe concept for and palette of Crystal Dorval aka White Poppy’s ‘Paradise Gardens’ trilogy first germinated in 2016 as a notion of “paradise music” combining new age, bedroom shoegaze, and bossa nova into “transcendental Tropicalia.” As she filled tapes of recordings exploring the idea, many of the songs gradually gravitated towards the hermetic dream pop her project is best known for, becoming the albums \u003ci\u003eParadise Gardens \u003c\/i\u003e(2020) and \u003ci\u003eSound Of Blue \u003c\/i\u003e(2023). Dorval describes these collections as a sort of “emotional purging or shadow work,” before arriving at “the state of inner paradise:” Ataraxia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e As the third, final, and most purist realisation of the original ‘Paradise Gardens’ vision, \u003ci\u003eAtaraxia\u003c\/i\u003e delivers. Nine instrumentals of nimble guitar, elevated bass, clean rhythm, and clear light, gliding like swans on a shimmering pond. There’s a sense throughout of playful tranquillity, of serenades at sunset, of kisses of blissful Muzak wafting along a boardwalk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut behind the music is a patience, grace, and levity born of Dorval’s personal journey with spiritual healing that paralleled the trilogy. A process of transmuting pain into beauty, day by day, melody by melody, cleaving the darkness from the soul and re-entering one’s rightful home in the Garden.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Not Not Fun","offers":[{"title":"White LP","offer_id":50426434453835,"sku":"2212337","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Ataraxia_b1f3b8a4_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726809882"},{"product_id":"sound-of-blue","title":"Sound Of Blue","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the grey-skied isles and horse farms of British Columbia comes the second volume of Crystal Dorval aka White Poppy’s “Paradise Gardens” trilogy: \u003ci\u003eSound Of Blue\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally conceived back in 2016, the album was then recorded, finessed, abandoned, resurrected, overdubbed, and finally mixed into nine refinements of daydream shoegaze and therapeutic pop, born from bedroom epiphanies and long winters of the heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom slowdive reverie (“Apathy,” “Melancholic Serenity”) and color wheel psychedelia (“Time”) to spiral chorale (“Happy”) and finger-picked drift (“Wiser”), Dorval’s songcraft moves between escape and acceptance, tracing delicate melodies from undercurrents of loss, light, and solitude. It’s music for memory gardens and pastel horizons, dreaming of bliss and distance, but bound to the here and now: “Thinking about leaving here forever \/ thinking about leaving here for good \/ but I keep holding on for something \/ hoping that it could get better than this \/ what’s one more night?”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Not Not Fun","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50529932083531,"sku":"2050059","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Sound_of_Blue_232cf5bf_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728068185"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/white-poppy.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}