London-based dreampop outfit Just Like Honey return with “Laugh about it”, a hazy, slow-burning meditation on the quiet emotional storms we learn to hide behind practised smiles. True to the band’s signature blend of cinematic warmth and melancholic glow, the track feels like a whispered confession suspended in soft-focus light, fragile, intimate, and quietly devastating.
Fronted by Emily, whose feather-light vocals carry both tenderness and an unspoken ache, Just Like Honey crafts a sound that lands somewhere between shoegaze haze, grunge-tinged grit, and dreamy pop shimmer. “Laugh about it” drifts with swirling guitars and a slow, smouldering pulse, building an atmosphere where vulnerability becomes its own kind of beauty.
The track explores the tension between outward composure and inward unravelling. “Laugh about it floats like a daydream underwater, nostalgic and vulnerable,” the band says. “It’s about keeping up the façade when everything shakes beneath the surface… for anyone who’s ever faked being okay.”
Originally written by Emily with just an acoustic guitar, the song journeyed through various arrangements and lineups before finding its final shape during a writing trip to Somerset with producer Pete Robertson. The finished version feels both expansive and intimate, like a memory half-recalled, something familiar, yet shimmering with new emotional resonance.
With “Laugh about it,” Just Like Honey continues carving out a radiant, quietly powerful space in the UK dreampop scene. Their music doesn’t offer escape so much as companionship, inviting listeners to sit gently with their own untidy feelings. Warm, wistful, and hauntingly honest, the track lingers long after the last note fades, much like sunlight drifting through sheer curtains.
