White Flowers

Don’t miss White Flowers live at ICA in October 2026!

Preston duo White Flowers – AKA Katie Drew and Joey Cobb – new album Dreams For Somebody Else came together via a circuitous, yet intentional process. For a decade, Drew and Cobb have enacted a dedicated archival and diaristic practice – storing snatches of musical and artistic ideas across hard drives and physical mediums. These fragments formed a primordial soup via which the 10 tracks that make up the LP have since coalesced.

Sonically, the two-piece embrace ‘sad euphoria’ – a palette starting from their well-established dream-pop sound, whilst adding the cathartic elements from dance music. The result is an album not backward in coming forward regarding its pop-sensibilities.

The genesis of any work in the White Flowers world (or “realm”, as they coin it) begins with the duo’s own creativity, before opening this up fills in the detail. Namely on Dreams For Somebody Else this came from working with Al Doyle of LCD Soundsystem on co-production – a serendipitous link-up given the profound effect a 2017 LCD set at Primavera had on the two-piece’s outlook.