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01. Bill Wells - Being Left By Today
02. Bill Wells - Feather And A Bird
03. Bill Wells - Disinformation
04. Bill Wells - El, El, El
05. Bill Wells - Secret Of Dead Youth
06. Bill Wells - Queen Christina The Second
07. Bill Wells - Keep Rest In Thunder (My Dying Day)
08. Bill Wells - Is Anybody There? / What Am I Afraid Of?
09. Bill Wells - Somethin' Funny Goin' On
10. Bill Wells - Twenty & Twenty Two/Mealy Tell I Am
11. Bill Wells - Warehouse
12. Bill Wells - Right / Wrong
13. Bill Wells - Beautiful Dream
14. Bill Wells - Shirley Brassy/Bushed
15. Bill Wells - Leave Me Alone
16. Bill Wells - Tie Your Hands
17. Bill Wells - Who I'm Married To
18. Bill Wells - First Time
19. Bill Wells - California Girl
20. Bill Wells - High Alone
21. Bill Wells - Money Dream
22. Bill Wells - Mackenzie's Return
23. Bill Wells - I Found It
24. Bill Wells - Altogether Hollow World
ARTIST
TITLE
Dreams '24/'25
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
KK 143LP KK 143LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
5/8/2026

On 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. The 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. For 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. The 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 out of song ideas, a detail that perfectly captures the album's blend of humor, strangeness and quiet melancholy. Dreams '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. The album is accompanied by a striking cover artwork by Annabel Wright.