father, oh father - Meghan Pulles (Dream Pop) father, oh father is BIG—it’s a big song. Meghan Pulles delivers a haunting, operatic dream pop midtempo using a cathedral-like reverb to create something with an epic, cinematic feel. The vocal production is almost choral in nature, with opera-level shimming backgrounds swirling around a vocal delivery almost more broadway than pop—we think of Florence and the Machine in that regard, with spoken word moments that give us Gaga. Cutting through the miasma of synths and layered vocals is a thudding percussion production and a soaring, crunchy guitar that brings us to the pop anthems of the 80s.

Best Lyric: “There’s so many people in pain and in strife, I heard that you can work miracles.”