Starting with their first music video on their song “grown up,” continuing to today with the release of “At Zero,” Dream, Ivory has been popular among listeners for many years.
Dream, Ivory is an American band, made up of the Filipino brothers Christian and Louie Baello. The band was first established in 2016 and their first extended play titled “Dream, Ivory” was released the same year. In 2017, the band released an EP “flowerhill drive,” and soon a single, “welcome and goodbye” came out. The song has been listened to over 300 million times since 2018 on Spotify.
“Like when I said I’m primarily a bassist and singer, sometimes Chris actually will play bass on a couple songs,” Louie Baello said in the interview with Wavelength Media. “And in our new album, ‘About a Boy, ‘ he has a couple of songs where he sang, played bass and guitar, so it differs based on the song we’re working on at a specific time.”
On Sept. 30, 2022, Dream, Ivory released their first debut full-length album, “About A Boy.” According to The Masquerade, it was recorded largely over FaceTime, Discord and email. On Jan. 27, 2023, the album “About A Boy (Naked)” was released. The album includes vulnerable and softer versions of the songs from the original album.
“Dropping ‘About a Boy,’ like the original version, obviously it was a lot different for fans of us,” Christian Baello said in the interview with Wavelength Media. “So the naked version kind of serves as our new stuff, but stripped back and kind of adjacent to what our old stuff sounded like, but just better mixed, better recorded, still in the same vein and in vision of what we want to drop now, but kind of adjacent to our old stuff.”
The band has approximately 5.2 million monthly listeners on Spotify. Louie Baello has his own YouTube channel where he uploads covers of different songs and videos from Dream, Ivory’s concerts. Christian Baello, in his turn, is working on his own hip-hop and rap projects. He is also known as Ginseng and Lil Wintr. After the release of “About A Boy,” the band promises that their style is going to continue to change and their albums will always be different.
“It’s just natural evolution and what we’re interested in hearing and making,” Christian Baello said in the interview with Wavelength Media. “We’re already trying to conceptualize a project right now and it’s already gonna be different from About a Boy. I think our minds, like Louie and I’s, (are) constantly attracted to new things and no album is ever gonna be the same.”
Dream, Ivory continues to release singles including “Bullet Train,” “Lost Angeles” and the most recent one: “At Zero.” The new three singles have already received attention from the listeners and remind us that Dream, Ivory are still remembered even after eight years of the band’s existence.