Dream Pop With Tender Teeth and a Longing Heartbeat

Hanna Kantor

On “All I Really Want” Isai offers a dream-pop confessional brimming with softness and simmering urgency. It’s a track that moves like breath on glass, intimate, foggy, and fleeting. The Brooklyn-based artist blends reverb-drenched guitars with pillowy synths, allowing vocals to hover in that sweet space between clarity and haze.

There’s an undeniable sadness in the sonic texture, a kind of suburban melancholy that recalls early Beach House or Cigarettes After Sex but it’s Isai’s lyrical directness that elevates the track. “All I really want is just to be enough,” they sing, distilling an entire generation’s quiet ache into a single, crystalline phrase.