Flower Face is turning heartbreak into a haunting new musical chapter by returning with “Bad Dream,” the first single from her upcoming album Kill the Muse, arriving February 5 via Nettwerk. Trading quiet acoustic intimacy for sweeping dream-pop production, Flower Face explores the painful distance between romantic fantasy and reality. With her signature dark lyricism and a bolder sonic direction, “Bad Dream” opens the door to her most emotionally exposed era yet.
When the Dream Becomes a Nightmare
“Bad Dream” captures the devastating moment when love no longer resembles the fantasy built around it. Lush, distorted guitars meet ethereal synths and heavy shoegaze drums, creating a dreamy atmosphere that gradually gives way to emotional chaos. Significantly, the track questions how much of a relationship exists only in our imagination. Flower Face explores the unsettling realization that the person we love might be someone we invented in our own minds.
As Flower Face reflects:
sometimes you fall so deep into this imaginary argument that you forget you have no real opponent
The result is both intimate and unsettling. Rather than simply mourning a lost relationship, “Bad Dream” confronts the painful collapse of an illusion. Its dreamy production only makes that awakening feel more haunting.
Finding Comfort in Familiar Darkness
That emotional tension continues in “Better the Devil,” the album’s second single, previously spotlighted in our New Music Friday HERE.
While “Bad Dream” explores the collapse of romantic fantasy, “Better the Devil” turns inward. Driven by restless finger picked guitars, anxious strings, and distorted bass, the track examines self-destructive habits and the strange comfort of familiar pain.
Both songs share a hazy, nocturnal atmosphere. Yet they reveal different sides of Flower Face’s storytelling. One mourns an imagined love, while the other confronts the struggle of escaping destructive patterns. Consequently, they establish the dark emotional landscape of Kill the Muse.
A New Chapter Beyond the Dream
With “Bad Dream” and “Better the Devil,” Flower Face offers two compelling previews of Kill the Muse. Her evolving sound moves between dream-pop, shoegaze, and gothic intimacy without losing the vulnerability that defines her songwriting. As anticipation builds for the album’s February 5 release, she will also bring this new chapter home with a special performance at La Sala Rossa in Montreal on March 20.
Until then, “Bad Dream” and “Better the Devil” offer a haunting introduction to a world where love, illusion, and self-destruction blur together.