Daniel Land has returned with new single ‘Alison’, the track is off the UK artist’s album Out of Season, which dropped on January 26th, and now available via streaming services.

The track follows Land’s previous single, “Another Year Older.” Daniel says: “Alison is the title of a famous Slowdive song, and the band Swimming Tapes also has a track with the same name. My bass player, Rob Sykes, who wrote part of the song with me, joked that it’s actually the law that every shoegazer, eventually, has to have a song called ‘Alison’. Obviously, the band Slowdive is a big influence on my sound, but the song is called ‘Alison’ because the chorus melody and lyrics arrived just like that, in my head, fully formed. I tried changing it, but the song just resisted… ‘Alistair’ just doesn’t have the same ring, and when I tried ‘Madison’, it sounded like I was singing about Wisconsin. So, I stuck with the name, even though I have no idea who Alison is”.

Out of Season is a series of reflections on history, memory, and post-Brexit Britain, which was inspired by Daniel’s return to the landscapes of his youth – the rugged, underpopulated west coast of Somerset, where he has spent increasing amounts of time since beginning the album in 2019. Out of Season was written and partly recorded there, in a static caravan overlooking the coast, during the period when the UK was tearing itself apart over its relationship to Europe.

In recent years Daniel has become both a scholar and a practitioner of the kind of music he creates, studying towards a PhD on artists like the Cocteau Twins at the London College of Music, while collaborating with artists like Darkher and Siobhan De Mare. He is currently writing a memoir about homophobia.

In a genre is often maligned for its lack of engagement with the real world, Daniel uses the sonic conventions of shoegaze as a backdrop for a distinctly outward-looking exploration of memory, identity, and desire, approaching his work with a steadfast vision and an auteur’s attention to detail.

Order Out of Season by Daniel Land HERE