Boyhood

I'll Dream Instead

Boyhood is the bedroom-pop project of Caylie Runciman, of rural Ontario. Known for crafting beguiling, off-kilter DIY anthems, her latest record, I'll Dream InStead, finds Boyhood sounding immersive and immediate. "This album stemmed from a feeling of desperation," Runciman explains, and you can hear a backed-up-against-the-wall determination throughout these songs that could only be cultivated obsessively in isolation. Writing, performing, recording, and engineering the entire album herself, Boyhood's latest finds Runciman metamorphosing. Through tough-kid guitar grit, dusty synths, analog feedback loops, and deadpan verses, you can hear her "experiencing a rebirth." It's been over a decade since Boyhood crashed into Ottawa's punk scene. Since then, she's released a sequence of lauded albums and appeared at festivals across North America (Sled Island, NXNE, Pop Montreal). Boyhood's 2022 record, My Dread, which marked her most painstaking musical creation_one that mirrored her introduction to motherhood_was mixed by Kenny Gilmore (Julia Holter, Weyes Blood), and praised as "a moving collection of perfect pop songs that feel classic, lived-in and raw" (Gorilla vs. Bear).

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Genre: Alternative Rock
Format: LP · 1 disc
Release: 20-11-2026
Label: Victory Pool
Item-nr: 1325296
EAN: 0885288657623
Availability: Exp. 20-11-2026