Welcome Strawberry

– Desperate Flower: Jangle-Pop Memory with Psychedelic Roots

StudioRich Blog / July 25, 2025

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Welcome Strawberry – Desperate Flower: Jangle-Pop Memory with Psychedelic Roots

Artist: Welcome Strawberry
Album: Desperate Flower
Label: Cherub Dream Records
Featured via: Joyzine
Listen / Buy: Bandcamp


Flower icon Bloom and Fade

There’s a line in the Joyzine review that stays with you:

“It feels as if 
 whoever you’re with 
 will one day be gone.”

That feeling—scented, momentary, maybe vanishing—runs through every part of Desperate Flower. Welcome Strawberry has always dealt in fuzz, jangle, and psych-mess shimmer, but this record leans deeper into emotion. Each song feels like a half-memory recovered through a shoegaze filter.


Headphones icon What You’ll Hear

  • Melodic guitars soaked in reverb and feedback
  • Lo-fi drum programming with an analog soul
  • Vocal softness that feels like it’s remembering itself
  • Psychedelic shimmer with shoegaze depth

Standout track: “Memory Cube” — a standout on first listen and replayable in ways that loop with new layers.

For fans of: Apples in Stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel, early Deerhunter.


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We’re drawn to artists who use lo-fi as language, not just filter. Welcome Strawberry has a sense of sonic time-travel—letting fragments echo, feedback bloom, and melancholy shimmer. Desperate Flower is perfect for slow afternoons or scent-triggered spirals.

One of those rare records that feels both handmade and haunted.

Folder iconFile it under:
#BloomInTheNoise
#JangleMemory
#ShoegazeScent
#OaklandEchoes


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