Brooklyn-based outfit Whisper Doll has released their second album, Lucky Clover. It stems from a time when Whisper Doll’s Fiona Tagami moved from a tiny room in the East Village to a big, sunny house in Brooklyn, fell in love with a cat that lived at the bodega down the street, adopted him, and named him Lucky. Several singles and videos are out now, like “Bluebells.”

Lucky Clover, comes from this time in Fiona’s life, one with a sense of possibility.

She shares:

It’s about this switch of trying to be in the world as a hopeful person. Seeing the good in everything, and feeling light and airy in that space. Being able to be very dreamy about things; letting myself daydream.

The record’s Dream-Pop sound, with ethereal vocals, follows that brief.

The band worked with producer Oscar Compo from the songs’ earliest stages, as he helped transform them from acoustic demos into their final form. Meanwhile, Fiona met engineer Reed Black at a show at his studio, Vinegar Hill Sound, in Dumbo, Brooklyn. The band recorded with Compo and Black at Vinegar Hill for eight days, layering the sound with synths, keys, bells and other ambient sounds, making something “very dreamy but still grounded.” 

Fiona feels that visuals play a role in “not just how she envisions her songwriting, but also the holistic vision of Whisper Doll.” She’s co-creating the album’s music videos alongside director Owen Lehman, with the hope of building a cohesive visual world to match the sonic one.