Since 2015, The Dream Eaters have evolved from a dream pop band into a full-on video art project with an extensive catalogue of weird and darkly humorous music videos of their catchy pop songs. The duo started working together after vocalist Elizabeth LeBaron, originally from Calgary, AB, started working at the same bar as singer/songwriter Jake Zavracky, originally from Boston, in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. 

Jake Zavracky has written and produced several versions of new single, “CRUCIFIXXX,” with various artists, including The Dream Eaters themselves on their 2018 album Pagan Love; But he has never felt he got it quite right. The Dream Eaters felt it was too special to leave alone, so recently they tried recording it again, and this time they feel they nailed it.

Singer Elizabeth LeBaron interprets the lyrics perfectly in her vocal, stating that, for her, “CRUCIFIXXX” is about the loneliness and hopelessness she felt when her life was a mess. Zavracky points out how in that hopelessness, there is a silver lining. “I can only go up from here. I think that’s reflected in the music too, with its ascending theme – you start at the low point and go up from there.”

This song makes me feel like I’m at absolute rock bottom. It’s the moment of self-realization: “lookin around these ruins…” and the frustration of having someone ask you how you are, hit on you even, when you’re clearly falling apart. – Elizabeth LeBaron