Listen: Crying In Your Sleep - Iska Dhaaf

Iska Dhaaf are a producer-songwriter duo based in Brooklyn. Together they create indie influenced electronicic with a focus on textural soundscapes and lyricism.

Crying In Your Sleep is the latest song from Iska Dhaaf and it creates a lush, cinematic feeling. A slow pulse of electronic percussion gives the song a sense of movement, the sounds gradually layered upon one another whilst soft instrumentation comes together to create a dreamlike sound. If this is crying in your sleep, it sounds peaceful.

Overall it is Benjamin Verdoe’s falsetto vocals that really make Crying In Your Sleep stand-out, enveloping the subtle production with a sense of drama and emotion. The overall sound here evokes a warm, quiet type of disco, the result sounding like Yumi Zouma fronted by Rhye’s Mike Milosh. Crying In Your Sleep is soft, subtle, raw, vulnerable and blissful. Check it out below.

"Crying in Your Sleep," the newest release from Iska Dhaaf, tells a multilayered story that revolves around two separate dialogs: one from the waking world and one from the dimension of dreams. The production of the song has an ethereal delicacy that cycles around a driving bass line and clusters of electronic percussion. Beautiful pads and arpeggiations flutter and dance around the steady beat and heavenly keys. The main melody drifts in and out as a sweet lullaby as Benjamin Verdoes's gentle voice lilts and sways. Melancholy and sincere, "Crying in Your Sleep," flows through the currents of a lucid dream.