Flower Face – Bad Dream
Today, Montreal goth-folk artist Flower Face (Ruby McKinnon) makes her highly anticipated return, releasing a new song + video, “Bad Dream,” out now via Nettwerk.
Since making her musical debut as a teenager, McKinnon has built a devoted following on the strength of songwriting about the dark corners of love. Her 2024 full-length, Girl Prometheus, marked a pivotal moment in her musical career, earning universal acclaim for her “grandly avenging buildups” (The New York Times) and melodies detailing “the extremes of heartbreak and desire” (Stereogum). Now, she shares a raw and compelling new era of her artistry.
On “Bad Dream,” Flower Face builds on the expansive energy of Girl Prometheus, trading hushed acoustic spaces for a sweeping dream-pop soundscape — layering lush, distorted guitars, ethereal synthesizers, and heavy, shoegazy drums over her signature brutal lyricism. The song explores what happens when you fall so deeply into a fantasy that reality feels like a betrayal. With cutting lines, “I love you most when you’re sleeping / ‘Cause when you wake up, it all falls apart”, “Bad Dream” captures the agonizing moment an illusion shatters – leaving you to face the realization that the person you were fighting for never truly existed at all.
Flower Face reflects: “…could you have imagined it all? and if none of it is real, who is to blame? sometimes you fall so deep into this imaginary argument that you forget you have no real opponent, and like in a dream everyone is you, no one acts freely, you are fighting different versions of yourself, and you will never win, and you can project a whole life onto anyone who’s in front of you, but as soon as they open their mouth the illusion is shattered, it only works when they’re sleeping, it only works when they’re leaving, it only works when they’re not there at all.”
After a standout performance at All Things Go Toronto and announcing her first headline tour through North America, the UK, and Europe, tickets sold out almost instantly in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Paris, Berlin, and London. Ruby will take the stage at Sommo Festival next month in Canada, with the tour launching on October 15th with a sold-out show at Zebulon in Los Angeles and concluding with a special hometown show in Montreal on March 20th at La Sala Rossa.
| FLOWER FACE 2026 HEADLINE TOUR: |
| September 09 – Cavendish, PEI @ Sommo Festival |
| October 15 – Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon LA – SOLD OUT |
| October 17 – San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop |
| October 19 – Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall |
| October 20 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza |
| October 21 – Vancouver, BC @ The Fox Cabaret |
| November 05 – Brooklyn, NY @ Public Records – SOLD OUT |
| November 07 – Chicago, IL @ Schuba’s Tavern – SOLD OUT |
| November 12 – Cologne, DE @ Yuca – SOLD OUT |
| November 14 – Berlin, DE @ Lark – SOLD OUT |
| November 16 – Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg |
| November 17 – Paris, FR @ Le Hasard Ludique – SOLD OUT |
| November 18 – London, UK @ The Lower Third – SOLD OUT |
| March 20 – Montreal, CA @ La Sala Rossa |
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