Indie Rock from Naomi Pacifique

Amsterdam-based Naomi Pacifique is a multi-talented Swiss-Dutch artist who works in music, film, visual arts and poetry. Originally born in Costa Rica, she grew up in Lausanne, Switzerland before spending time in the UK.

Studying creative writing at Oxford University and filmmaking at London Film School, her music is influenced by both literature and the moving image. A true artistic polymath, Naomi is also a co-founder of Idle Eye, an Amsterdam collective and film production company alongside creatives Rafael Manuel and Albert Kuhn.

Taking inspiration from artists such as Big Thief, Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, the instrumentation styles of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, CAN, Cate Le Bon and Yo La Tengo and poetry from wordsmiths such as Sharon Olds, Anne Carson and Alejandra Pizarnik, she fuses her various influences to craft her own sonic vision.

During her time in London, she regularly performed across the capital and the city of Oxford, with her shows reflecting the delicate nature of her music. Making her studio-recording introduction last year, she shared her debut single titled “comment font-ils”, which she followed up with her sophomore track “the sea is coming in”.

Now she’s back with her latest work and the new single “was it the dregs of night”. Once again building on her wildly original alternative rock sound, with her latest single, Naomi Pacifique spins a mesmeric lo-fi soundscape full of stretching sonic textures and piquant melodic leads.

Penned in collaboration with musicians in Amsterdam, the lyrics and guitar parts were written in January of this year, using a tornado as inspiration for the rhythms of the song. Capturing a whirling kaleidoscopic sense, “was it the dregs of night” delivers a gently swelling vibe as the song meanders through a dreamlike world. The second single from the artist this year, Naomi is gearing up to release a new single in anticipation of her upcoming album set to drop in early 2023.

Listen to was it the dregs of night below