Bricolage by Dear Stream

Dear Stream returns to Apparel Tronic with Bricolage, a four-track sonic essay about creation through fragments. The title says it all: a bricolage is the art of building with what’s already there, borrowing tools, sounds, languages, and letting them reassemble into something new without pretending to be “original.” Each track seems to fold in on itself, sampling, and repurposing elements that once belonged elsewhere, but now coexist in a space of their own. It’s music that questions where originality even begins, and if it still matters. The concept draws inspiration from Derrida’s Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences, embracing the postmodern idea that creativity isn’t about purity or origin, but about play, movement, and difference. Bricolage moves through layered textures and abstract rhythms, balancing precision and accident. It’s Dear Stream at his most reflective, experimental yet approachable, theoretical yet practical. A record that doesn’t claim to invent, but rather to connect, and in doing so, becomes something unmistakably its own.