Reflections on fatherhood and touring life guide Riley Pearce’s third album. Several tracks see the Fremantle indie-folk artist lament the time apart from his wife and two daughters while being on the road: “I look and you won’t be there,” he sings on “You Won’t Be There”, an airy ode to disconnection. “Left Side View” approaches the same longing with a bit more optimism: “I’ll take everything that I can get from you,” Pearce promises his wife, including “the clean with the mess”. Co-produced with repeat collaborator Andy Lawson, The Weight of Our Dreaming pairs personal accounts of creative and professional burnout with gorgeous atmosphere and peripheral touches—such as a young child laughing on “Foundation”, the song that provides the album’s titular phrase. Pearce also dwells on mortality on both “Funeral” (a duet with Scottish singer-songwriter Rosie H Sullivan) and “Headstone”, and mines some playful imagery from the gap between fantasy and reality on the ghostly “Pretend Ferrari”. Describing the feeling of brokenness hiding behind tinted glass and a fake moustache, he reminds us how enticing such illusions can be when we’re feeling lost.