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Awake But Always Dreaming

by Hannah Peel

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Hope Lasts 03:07
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Tenderly 03:42
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Octavia 04:06
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Foreverest 08:43
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about

Awake But Always Dreaming is a record about memory: the 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 rush-hours to the old sunlight of her grandmother’s fading memories. Peel switches between panoramic city images in ‘Standing On The Roof Of The World’ and the dissolving, hallucinogenic moments that define the second half of the album. The album’s closer is a cover of Paul Buchanan’s (The Blue Nile) ‘Cars In The Garden’ which returns memory to childhood – “find the place that we forgot.” 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 – from the grandeur and chaos of tracks such as ‘Foreverest’ to something very simple, surreal and yet utterly moving and memorable.

For more information and detail about the album please read this Guardian article:
www.theguardian.com/music/2016/nov/23/awakenings-hannah-peel-on-how-she-harnessed-musics-power-to-cut-through-dementia


Produced and recorded with long-term collaborator Erland Cooper, with orchestrations by Peel, both in their own, analogue studio in Shoreditch, London and at Attica Audio in County Donegal, Ireland,

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released November 25, 2016

Co-produced by Hannah Peel and Erland Cooper

Mixed by Tommy McLaughlin at Attica Audio, Donegal, Ireland

Mastered by Guy Davie at Electric Mastering

Cover photography by Adam Patterson

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Hannah Peel London, UK

Mercury 2021 shortlisted artist, composer, producer and late night broadcaster

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