Victoria, BC’s Door d’Or is a band with history – they reunited after years apart, rediscovering their chemistry in a jam space marked by a golden door, and “Fibre Optics” is the first single from their debut album “The Exquisite Dream,” due May 1st. Recorded at The Hive Creative Labs in Victoria with Juno Award-winning producer Colin Stewart and mastered by Steve Turnidge at UltraViolet Studios in Seattle, the track is a five-piece effort: Mat Geddes on vocals and guitar, Darin Steinkey on drums, Owen Sandquist-Sherman on bass, Evan Fryer on keys, and Ry Clayton on lead guitar. Geddes actually wrote the song around 2001 in response to the digital revolution – VHS to DVD, cathode ray to flatscreen, CD sales collapsing into mp3 downloads – and revisiting it now, as AI reshapes everything again, it hasn’t lost a step.
Musically, the band delivers this stoner-rock style of grime and grit to create a true psychedelic atmosphere. Door d’Or achieves this with their choice of tones and texture: a fuzzy, hairy guitar tone and a wide bass sound, and sizzling hot drums that fill up every crevice of the vast stereo image of this huge-sounding song. The visuals on the music video deserve a special shoutout as well – they perfectly accompany the song’s themes and are in perfect sync with the music.
Geddes’ quote on the track is worth sitting with: “Fibre optics connect us at the speed of light, both unifying and redefining the economics of my generation.” A song written in 2001 about the internet age landing in 2026, mid-AI revolution is the kind of timing that makes a debut album feel like it was worth the wait. “The Exquisite Dream” is shaping up to be something to pay attention to.
