Floating through long summer nights. The scent of sunscreen on your skin. The sensation of dragging your fingers across the water’s surface. The melancholy of fleeting moments. The joy of the present. The glow of the sun. The drift of the day. Wanted To Show You by Lipsticism captures all of that — and so much more.
The solo project of Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist and producer Alana Schachtel is a soundtrack for the in-between: a dream of vastness, a seat in nostalgia, the slow pull forward. Across fourteen tracks, she captures a sense of space and movement that usually slips away. Not by accident — Schachtel comes from a dance background, and you can almost feel her music move physically: in delicate, crystalline synth lines, gentle breakbeats, and understated vocals.
Her floating pop psychedelia flows freely between ambient, shoegaze, house, and hyperpop — never obvious, always elegantly composed. Amid lucid soundscapes, another dimension unfolds: a liminal space for memories, thoughts, and dreams. These tracks feel open and precise at once — never fully spelled out, but inviting your own projections. That’s their power: Wanted To Show You isn’t an album that tells a story. It gestures, it opens up space, it keeps moving.
Wanted To Show You
