Self-described as her “doom pop” record, on new album Feed the Flowers Nightmares, Zoë Mead takes her love for Death Cab and combines it with an appreciation for contemporary composers, from Jon Brion and Library Tapes, through Mica Levi and Johnny Greenwood. And so, opening track "Everytime You’ll Be Mine" is weighty and atmospheric, the cinematic nature of the song immediately setting the tone for this new chapter of Wyldest. Elsewhere, "The Best Is Yet To Come", a striking three-minutes that begins as a stripped-back guitar-and-voice ballad before electronic drums suddenly enter, shifting the track into a beautiful instrumental soundscape, while "Abilene" leans more heavily into the pop territory, the scattered percussive beats and Zoë’s bold vocal conjuring something equally memorable and endearing. Thematically, Feed the Flowers Nightmares is informed by Zoe’s navigation of the past couple of years, but is more directly inspired by the way we treat and look after ourselves. “What I mean by ‘Feed the flowers nightmares’ is to literally ensure that you regularly ‘feed’ yourself physically, emotionally, and spiritually,” she says. “Feeling like you’re being held together by string is not a way to explore creativity or life in general. Momentum needs to be fed and nurtured, or it will just stop.” Feed the Flowers Nightmares is out now on Hand In Hive Records.