Los Angeles duo, Dream, Ivory, recently released their new album, When You Come Back I Have So Much To Tell You. The pair have now announced a 2026 North American headline tour, kicking off in February and wrapping up in Los Angeles in late March. Alongside this news, they released their new EP, Pavement. Keep reading below to find out more.
Find tickets from Friday, Oct 17th at 10am local time here: http://www.dreamivory.com/
Buy/stream When You Come Back I Have So Much To Tell You here: https://dream.ffm.to/whenyoucomeback
Stream Pavement here: https://dream.ffm.to/pavement
“While writing “Pavement” we traveled back in time to when we started Dream, Ivory and everything was new to us. The title refers to that specific period when we started making music and were literally ‘outside’ and young with zero responsibility, taking in inspiration from everything,” share the brothers Chris and Louie Baello.
Growing up in Southern California, the Baello brothers were each other’s universe. “We experienced the world through the same frame,” Christian says. That frame was heavily influenced by the number of times they moved, their identity as first generation Filipino Americans, and their parents’ love of music. Enlisted in piano lessons by their dad at a young age (“it wasn’t a choice,” Louie jokes), the Baello brothers cut their teeth covering the music their parents were raised on, everything from ABBA and the Bee Gees to the Beatles. Christian helms the production on Dream, Ivory tracks while Louie is the primary lyricist/vocalist, but every song they make is a true collaboration. Music has always been central to their sense of self-perception, but it’s just one of the brothers’ many talents. Together, they make all of Dream, Ivory’s artwork, videos, and visuals, it’s working: They have over 450 million streams across their catalogue and their debut single “welcome goodbye” is RIAA certified gold.
When You Come Back I Have So Much To Tell You follows Dream, Ivory’s 2022 debut LP, About a Boy, an album that interrogates difficult topics surrounding mental illness and suicidality with grace and conviction. When You Come Back… incubates a distinctive period in the brothers’ lives defined by dislocation and addiction. When their parents decided to move back to the Philippines, Louie moved to Los Angeles to live with Christian and his girlfriend, Lilia Shibuya, who contributed writing to the album. Though the brothers have been prolific since their teenage years, they stagnated as cohabitants. “We just didn’t really give a fuck about creating in that moment, there was just no inspiration in our lives,” Christian says. “Instead of writing, we’d get shitfaced drunk. It was bad. We’d record a riff, then take a shot.”
The brothers attribute that lack of inspiration to their early achievements. At 19, raking in tens of thousands of listeners on a single track felt like a major accomplishment, but the more Dream, Ivory grew, the benchmark for success leveled up. “There’s so much riding on our old shit, coming up with something new felt like going to the fucking moon,” Christian says. The moon being far, Christian spiraled. “I was drinking so much and getting caught by my brother, my girlfriend,” he says. “I was kicked out of our place.” But bottoming out eventually renewed his sense of purpose. Christian got sober, moved back in with his loved ones, and a songwriting breakthrough expanded their imagination of what Dream, Ivory could be.
Check out the singles:
“All Good” https://youtu.be/8I9Td805me0
” Tangerine Dream” https://youtu.be/0FRPgfcUgZ8
“Solar Eclipse” https://youtu.be/-CSs_uvIcYE
“At Zero” https://youtu.be/Un8TpmdIy9A
“Lost Angeles” https://youtu.be/nqkpzcHEzsQ
After wrapping up a US tour supporting breakout shoegaze star Wisp this past August, Dream, Ivory will embark on their own headline run early next year, kicking off in February at Santa Ana’s Constellation Room, and hitting Austin, Atlanta, DC, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and more.
Tour Dates:
Feb 23rd – Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room
Feb 24th – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
Feb 25th – Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
Feb 27th – Austin, TX @ 29th Street Ballroom
Feb 28th – San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger
Mar 3rd – Houston, TX @ Bronze Peacock @ HOB
Mar 4th – Dallas, TX @ Ruins
Mar 6th – Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade – Purgatory
Mar 7th – Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
Mar 8th – Washington, DC @ DC9
Mar 9th – Philadelphia, PA @ Warehouse on Watts
Mar 11th – Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right
Mar 12th – New York, NY @ Nightclub 101
Mar 13th – Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz
Mar 14th – Toronto, ON @ Sound Garage
Mar 16th – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
Mar 17th – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St Entry
Mar 18th – Kansas City, MO @ recordBar
Mar 20th – Denver, CO @ Marquis
Mar 21st – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
Mar 23rd – Seattle, WA @ Madame Lou’s
Mar 24th – Vancouver, BC @ Wise Hall
Mar 25th – Portland, OR @ Holocene
Mar 27th – San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop
Mar 28th – Los Angeles, CA @ Roxy
During the SoundCloud rap boom, Christian and Louie started uploading their own DIY offerings to the internet, but that short-lived rap project soon evolved into Dream, Ivory. Largely inspired by shoegaze, surf rock, and shapeshifting artists like Damon Albarn, the brothers quickly amassed an organic fanbase online.
Love, or the promise of it, has guided the Baello brothers over vast emotional distances. The sense of longing that inspired the title runs through the album and is felt most acutely on “Sometimes,” another Shibuya co-write about unrequited love. “Felt the wind in Anaheim/ Like a touch you left behind/ Sometimes I just want it to stay,” Louie sings over a watery guitar part that sounds distinctly tied to the brothers’ home state. “Missing you is like snow in California.” Earnest and pining, “Sometimes” distills that yearning title, When You Come Back…, beautifully. “You could even apply the title to the distance between your current self and your past self,” Louie muses. “There’s no one way to interpret it.”
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