Welcome Strawberry - Desperate Flower (2025)

Oakland’s Welcome Strawberry return with Desperate Flower, their lush sophomore LP and a co-release from à La Carte Records and Cherub Dream Records. Blending shimmering dream-pop, homespun psychedelia, and restless experimental textures, the album balances intimacy with expansiveness. Lead single “Memory Cube” pulses with hypnotic energy, while “Violets & Honey” channels the jangle of C86 pop. The title track blooms into kaleidoscopic psych-pop, nodding to Elephant 6 icons and kiwi pop legends alike. At once nostalgic and forward-thinking, Desperate Flower is a vivid, hazy journey through melody and memory.