Dream Diary Balance 'Creativity and Love' on 'El Lissitzky' -- Song Premiere

The words of music and art aren't strange bedfellows by any means. After the Vivian Girls and Tilly and the Wall paid homage to Henry Darger and Pixies frontman Black Francis wrote an album about Herman Brood, New York trio Dream Diary penned a tune about Russian artist El Lissitzky.

The mellow-yet-upbeat song is off the band's forthcoming debut LP, 'You Are the Beat,' and their love of the Smiths and Belle and Sebastian is readily apparent. As singer/guitarist Jacob Danish Sloan tells Spinner, the track was part of a multi-band project and blends both happiness and heartache in its music and words.

"The song 'El Lissitzky' was conceived for a project in which a bunch of bands each wrote a song inspired by a famous painter of their choice," Sloan says. "It's about confusion, balancing creativity and love, and a classic combination: upbeat music and melancholy lyrics."

'You Are the Beat' is due out Feb. 15 on Kanine Records.