Dream Big Tracklist + Blurb
1. Midnight Show
2. Bad Machine
3. Boys
4. Dream Big
5. Space Baby
6. WWDWD
7. An Accident
8. My First Name
9. Why Die For Danzig
10. Less Than Nothing
11. Going Out
I know what I am. I know what I could be. Put me in my place but nothing can hold me.”
- ‘Dream Big’, Soda Blonde
Dream Big, the second studio album from Irish band Soda Blonde, is far more than a
collection of catchy and cathartic pop songs; it’s a mantra – a mission statement from four
lifelong friends. It’s their promise to themselves, and a message to all who come along for the
ride: A reminder that life is precious, fragile, and fleeting, so we might as well dream big and
hold nothing back.
Following two successful introductory EPs (2019's “Terrible Hands” and 2020's “Isolation
Content”), they released their debut album, “Small Talk”, in 2021. The LP was subsequently
nominated for RTÉ’s Choice Music Prize for Album of the Year and received rave reviews
from Paste Magazine, Atwood Magazine, and The Irish Times, who called it "a record so
articulate and expressive that its title has to be a wry in-joke."
The band have grown tremendously in the two years since their debut, and it shows. Whereas
“Small Talk” was an anxiety-fuelled coming-of-age record about navigating their twenties,
“Dream Big” is a mature awakening to the world at large; one that dives deeper and hits
harder than its predecessor.
“It definitely was a conscious titling, that relationship between Small Talk and Dream Big,”
the band’s guitarist and producer Adam O’Regan explains. “Small Talk was trying to
decipher whether everything meant something or nothing. With Dream Big, we’ve arrived at
the point that it means something.”
