CD in mini-LP style slipcase with three exclusive bonus tracks. Just under a year after their acclaimed self-titled debut, dreampop duo deary release a brand new six-track EP - Aurelia - via Sonic Cathedral.

It includes the singles 'The Moth', 'Selene' and 'The Drift' and features Slowdive drummer Simon Scott playing on three songs, available on vinyl, CD with three bonus tracks and digitally.

It's a stunning record, which displays a new-found maturity in terms of production as well as musically and lyrically.

The band - singer Rebecca 'Dottie' Cockram and guitarist/producer Ben Easton - have had to grow up in public since the release of their debut single at the start of 2023, supporting legends such as Slowdive and Cranes and TikTok sensations like Wisp along the way.

An aurelian is a rare old term for a lepidopterist - someone who studies and collects moths - derived from the Latin aurelia, meaning chrysalis.

The perfect title for an EP which is based around the theme of metamorphosis and change.

"It leans on the natural world, the human body, the earth and sky as well as human emotion," says Ben of how the EP represents physical and metaphysical growth.

"Change can be daunting but equally exciting, which is something we've come to learn." "While writing the EP, I found a letter I had written to myself when I was 22," adds Dottie.

"I was fresh out of university and had moved back in with my parents. I was uninspired and lost and reaching out to my future self for some hope.

It was a physical representation of what can happen in a few years; how much can change and how you never know what's coming next.

There are motifs throughout the EP - for example the riffs in 'The Moth' and 'The Drift' being reminiscent of each other - which are like musical reflections of these repeated cycles." It's musically where the change deary have undergone is most obvious.

'The Moth' mixes howling guitars atop a strident breakbeat making it more Curve than Cocteaus; 'Selene' is a slow-building wall of noise; 'The Drift' combines a perfect pop melody with an incredible sense of urgency.

These three singles are balanced by the brief but beautiful 'Where You Are' which leads into the Portishead-style trip-hop of 'Dream Of Me'.

The title track has been a staple of their live sets for about a year as 'Can't Sleep Tonight', but its mix of The Cure circa Disintegration and Mezzanine Massive Attack has grown and evolved so much that they renamed it 'Aurelia' as the embodiment of the change they have been through."