Canadian dream-pop duo You'll Never Get to Heaven's (Chuck Blazevic and Alice Hansen) ghostly EP Adorn (2014) bears some resemblance to Blouse's debut album by virtue of their usage of 70's inspired analog synths, but their sound is decidedly more intimate, hypnotic and ethereal. As Jon Putnam notes, part of the appeal lies in the way Hansen's intimate, whispy vocals are elegantly cocooned in a wash of vintage ambient-inflected music:
"Set to a metronomic drum machine beat, the two smoulder and simmer an aromatic broth of fluttering, translucent guitar and electronics, Alice Hansen’s vocals completely engulfed in the concoction[...] Light static crackles around the periphery and Hansen’s doling out of allusions of aloneness in her sweet but unaffected tone serve to keep the song’s balance captivatingly askew."
Daniel Sylvester has observed that the combination of Blazevic's gorgeous textures and Hansen's vocals creates "haunted caverns of sound, melody and meditation", an effect that works brilliantly on "Caught in Time, So Far Away". As the song the title indicates, the focus is on a cherished moment that can never be relived or recaptured: 'Caught in time so far away/ Dreams flicker on/ Can't recreate [inaudible]/ Then the feeling's gone ...'
