{"product_id":"dreams-24-25-signed","title":"Dreams '24 \/ '25 - Signed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn Dreams ’24 \/ ’25, Scottish composer Bill Wells turns his nocturnal imagination into a sequence of delicate musical miniatures. The album brings together 24 short pieces, most of them under two minutes, unfolding in just under half an hour like a quietly drifting dream diary.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe album is split into two parts. On the Dreams 2024 side, Norman Blake lends his voice to Wells’ dream-born melodies. Blake, best known as a founding member of Teenage Fanclub, recorded the songs with Wells in a single afternoon at his home, capturing their fragile immediacy in direct and unadorned performances.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor Dreams 2025, Aby Vulliamy — one of Yorkshire’s best kept musical secrets — takes over vocal duties. In mid 2025, Wells sent her a batch of demos; Vulliamy recorded them at home and sent them back to him. The result is a second chapter that feels more introspective, intimate and gently surreal.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe songs themselves are born directly from dreams. Wells wakes from the dream, records it on his mobile and later shapes it into a brief, lyrical composition. One piece, Mackenzie’s Return, was inspired by a dream in which Elvis Costello marched through the streets of a suburban town complaining that he had run\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e out of song ideas, a detail that perfectly captures the album’s blend of humour, strangeness and quiet melancholy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDreams ’24 \/ ’25 is not a collection of fully formed pop songs, but rather a series of fleeting emotional snapshots: soft voices, simple motifs, and melodies that appear and vanish before they can fully settle. It is an album that rewards close listening, inviting the listener into a private, half-lit space somewhere between memory and imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe album features striking cover artwork by Annabel Wright.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Monorail Music","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":53551856779606,"sku":"MRM-05138","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/6088\/9430\/files\/3c83dc11226fc6ef08ab3fad99c38d86.avif?v=1778326815","url":"https:\/\/monorailmusic.com\/products\/dreams-24-25-signed","provider":"Monorail Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}