Over winter breaks in high school and college, I got into this cycle of staying up until 4 AM and sleeping until noon every day.

I was car-less for most of the high school years and the threat of snow drifts hindered most opportunities to leave when I did get a car, so I just stayed up, waiting for something to happen. I baked cakes. I watched every season of Scrubs. I read The Virgin Suicides twice in one break. I put on Cocteau Twins records and synced them up with old home videos on mute.

In short… yeah, I was kind of a strange kid, but there’s something deeply nostalgic about the music and things I clung to when everyone else was asleep. Dirty Dishes‘ frontwoman and multi-instrumentalist Jenny Tuite’s music has always seemed like an ideal soundtrack for night driving, but her full-length debut as Cloud Cover rests firmly in that beautifully cerebral, early morning haze of half-lucidity. Touching on the most ominous reaches of dream pop (“Cannibalism”), glitchy experimentation (“Cake Bath”), and ambient music (“Cloud Cave”), Mirror Me deserves your ears now, but with the promise of repeat listens in those crucial early hours of restlessness.

Recorded “in glimpses over the past year” according to Tuite, Mirror Me will finally see release on Disposable America tomorrow along with a release show in Allston. To stream the album in full, scroll below. To order it digitally, on cassette, or on limited edition vinyl, check out the DA Bandcamp.