Puma Blue - Antichamber - VINYL LP

Transparent Blue. Death nestles like a sweet creature at the heart of Holy Waters, the highly anticipated follow-up to Puma Blue's 2021 album, In Praise of Shadows. It's less a morbid study in mortality, more a chronicle of the graciousness within each repeated cycle of life, death and rebirth, arriving eventually at a gentle affirmation at the album's close; Inchdon't let the dark take you wholeInch. A substantial leap in Jacob's artistry; extraordinary multitudes of hurt and relief are journeyed in his writing, navigating the spaces between grief and elation, and the strange semblances between solitude and community. Across it's eleven tracks, his voice is a gossamer fabric delighting in the brightest language as he retraces every path walked in the harshest years of his life with a startling sincerity, looking each face of grief in the bloodshot eye, and for the most part, accepting it. Recorded with his live band over the course of two visits to Eastbourne's Echo Zoo Studios, a joy permeates each sonic corner of Holy Waters, the studio techniques more analogue and experimental than his previous work, but sounding fuller, richer, killing what ego was left in Puma Blue and paying their band-centric debts proudly. Inspired still by luminaries from Jeff Buckley to Björk, but more important to Holy Waters was Portishead's inexplicable marriage of a live band and production, and the improvisational work of Can and Hendrix. This is an album that can be devoured late at night with headphones as much as it can be blasted on the open road. Album Tracks 1. Falling Down 2. Pretty 3. O, the Blood! 4. Hounds 5. Too Much, Too Much 6. Epitaph 7. Gates (Wait for Me) 8. Dream of You 9. Holy Waters 10. Mirage 11. Light Is Gone

Limited Edition Deep Ocean Blue. Croak Dream is a document of rebirth for Puma Blue, and a full realization of the project's musical and emotional potential. The third full-length from Jacob Allen feels nocturnal and ruminative - spanning the low-slung iridescence of trip-hop, the xx's moody rhythmic pop, and the stark intimacy of artists like Benjamin Booker and mark william lewis. The proper follow-up to 2023's Holy Waters, Croak Dream arrives after a period of reset and renewal. Written in the aftermath of a difficult tour and time spent focusing on mental health, the album reflects Allen's rediscovery of joy and experimentation. Recorded straight to tape at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios with Sam Petts-Davies (The Smile, Warpaint), the result is a living, breathing organism of sound that's both raw and beautifully intricate. Lyrically, Croak Dream explores sensuality, connection, and - from the toxic aftermath of the title track to the foggy IDM of InchMister LostInch and the spectral ache of InchSilently.Inch It's Puma Blue in his most intimate and unguarded form bold, liberated, and fully alive. Album Tracks 1. Desire 2. Mister Lost 3. Hold You 4. Croak Dream 5. Heaven Above, Hell Below 6. (Fool) 7. Hush 8. Jaded 9. Silently 10. Cocoons 11. Yearn Again

Vinyl LP pressing. Over the course of two EPs, two singles and a stripped-back live album, Puma Blue has established himself as one of the UK's most vital new talents, quietly amassing over 50 million streams in the process and selling out shows from London to LA and Paris to Tokyo. His long-awaited debut album, In Praise of Shadows, is a delirious dreamland of soulful vocals, D'Angelo-ish guitars and muted electronic beats. It's fourteen tracks are a contemplation on Inchthe balance of light and dark, the painful things you have to heal from or accept, that bring you through to a better placeInch says the 25-year-old Puma Blue, real name Jacob Allen InchIt's about finding light in darkness and realizing that it's what got me here today.Inch It's nocturnal, soul-searching sound is born from a decade in which the he was plagued with insomnia, but there's also a new maturity and lucidity to the way in which Allen deals with his demons and celebrates beauty. Over the last two years, a blossoming romance and burgeoning career have not only helped him to sleep, but also forced the previously bedroom-bound songwriter out into the open and driven him to find a new perspective on loss, lust, love and everything in-between. This companion LP features 2 bonus tracks and live versions of a selection of album cuts. Album Tracks 1. Postcard from Tokyo 2. All I Need 3. Velvet Leaves (Live) 4. Snowflower (Live) 5. Already Falling (Live) 6. Sheets (Live) 7. Oil Slick (Live) 8. Opiate (Live) 9. Bath House (Live) 10. Super Soft (Live)