UTOPIA PKWY makes pop music from a slightly altered reality.

Chrome-bright synths, narcotic melodies, warped guitars, strange little hooks. Dream-pop, psychedelia, electronic music and whatever else happens to slip through.

Created by John Beckmann, with voices from Tanner McGraw and Lawson Mars, the project takes its name from Utopia Parkway in Queens—the street associated with artist Joseph Cornell and his private worlds of found objects, memory and obsession.

The songs work the same way: fragments assembled into something seductive, cinematic and slightly unreal.

Music for somewhere between nostalgia and the future.