Shanti Celeste has released a new single, 'Ice Cream Dream Boy'.
Built around bright, blissful synth melodies and her own vocals, the new cut has been a fixture in Celeste's sets this summer, as well as a number of others DJs such as Job Jobse, HAAi and Jennifer Cardini.
Speaking about the new cut, Celeste said: "I wanted to make a happy and uplifting vocal summer tune and I just so happened to be in the peak honeymoon romance period with my now partner (The Ice Cream Dream Boy). He had discovered my love for soft plush toys and decided to buy me a cute little fluffy Jellycat ice cream.
"When I made the instrumental I felt insecure and unsure about what lyrics to write, so I just decided to sing about what I was currently experiencing in my life. I had been a fan of Shivum Sharma for a while and I had just done a remix for his amazing song '7am', so after establishing a cute lil connection I thought I'd ask him to help me write the song as I was very new to writing lyrics!"
Listen to 'Ice Cream Dream Boy' below.
This is Celeste's second single release of the summer following 'SLB', which came out on the Peach Discs label she runs with Gramrcy. That single was released in aid of Operation Olive Branch, a grassroots collective that aims to amplify Palestinian voices and support their critical needs, including mutual aid requests.