Description
Produced and recorded with longterm collaborator Erland Cooper, with orchestrations by Peel, both in their own, richly analogue studio in Shoreditch, London and at Attica Audio in County Donegal, Ireland, her new solo album Awake But Always Dreamingnbspis a record about memorynbspthe luminous and beautiful formation of memories and the devastating loss or slow, insidious damage to the mind.The album has the feel of a dream where all of daily life is being expressed and decoded, from feverish rushhours to the old sunlight of her grandmotherrsquos fading memories. Peel switches between panoramic city images in lsquoStanding On The Roof Of The Worldrsquo and the dissolving, hallucinogenic moments that define the second half of the album.nbspThe albumrsquos closer is a cover of Paul Buchananrsquos The Blue Nile lsquoCars In The Gardenrsquo which returns memory to childhood ndash ldquofind the place that we forgot.rdquo Performed with her trademark music box and by way of a sublimely coaxed out, bittersweet duet with Hayden Thorpe from Wild Beasts, this is another fine shift in tone and perspective ndash from the grandeur and chaos of tracks such as lsquoForeverestrsquo to something very simple, surreal and yet utterly moving and memorable.nbsp
