Bliss Carmxn returns after a year-long pause with “Caffeine Orange,” a surreal alt-pop reverie that captures the in-between haze of early morning, that strange hour when you can’t quite tell if you’re waking up or drifting home. The Canadian-born, London-based artist keeps up their name with another spellbinding track that binds folk tenderness to electronic shimmer. Produced by Rookes, the track opens the next chapter of Carmxn’s sonic evolution, where dream pop meets emotional realism, and where longing feels as tangible as sunlight spilling through curtains at dawn.
The song opens with an immersive electronic hum, a soft mechanical breathing beneath a hypnotic synth-vibraphone loop transposed from a real mosaic Carmxn photographed on an early morning walk, turning visual art into sound. Over that shifting drone, his voice floats in layers: high and spectral above a deeper, grounded tone, creating an echoing duet with himself. It’s as if the song is split between consciousness and memory. He sings slowly and melancholically, his delivery weightless but heavy-hearted, each syllable melting into the next like a cloud dissolving in orange light.
Then, like sunlight piercing fog, the glitzy pulsing rhythm enters, sharper, faster, and strangely cleansing. The vocal layering strips away, leaving Carmxn’s voice bare and serious, as though he’s stepping out of his own dream to speak directly to you. The production expands into a pulse-driven glow, somewhere between Bon Iver’s electronic experiments and The Japanese House’s shimmering pop meditations.
Listen to the lucid dreamy state of Bliss Carmxn’s “Caffeine Orange” on Spotify.
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Review by: Naomi Joan