Puma Blue recently released a video for “Croak Dream”, the title track from his forthcoming LP, available February 6 2026 via Play It Again Sam.

“A Croak Dream is a prophetic dream where you see a vision of how you die. Half the songs on this record allude to how you might decide to live, act, if you somehow knew your awaiting fate. Being daring, romantic… saying what you really mean.” Allen explains.

Explaining the song’s lyrical intent, Jacob shares; “”Croak Dream” is about someone I have dreamt of for years. Nightmares really, I just have not been able to shake them yet. I thought maybe what I needed was a sort of exorcism, so I wrote this song unpacking this strange bond that has haunted me, and then put it to bed, or death, at the end. It is a laying of a ghost to rest, I hope.”

Recorded straight to tape at Peter Gabriel’s Real World studios, Croak Dream sees Jacob Allen expand the project’s sonic world with co-producer and mixer Sam Petts-Davies (Thom Yorke, Warpaint). Longtime collaborator Harvey Grant contributed to the textural identity of the record. “Later at Real World Studios, the band and I recorded tape loops over a small fragment of the demo, none of them heard the finished song, and when Sam and I came back to London we cut those improvisations into this Frankenstein’s monster type collage. We were really leaning into a mutual love for CAN, Aphex Twin and Queens of the Stone Age.”

“I am not romanced by short forms at the moment, finding myself longing for longer songs, like Lana Del Rey’s ‘Venice Bitch’ or Jeff Buckley’s ‘Lover You Should’ve Come Over’, so I wanted to let this one breathe and build like a movie sequence.”
The single arrives with a video that extends the track and album’s dream logic, rendered into a visual multiverse. Inspired by early PlayStation game design, it pulls the viewer into a retro world that resembles the angular surrealism of titles like Silent Hill, Metal Gear Solid and Tomb Raider. The video mirrors the track’s sense of being held in suspension by our fate, the gamescape both nostalgic and eerily unfamiliar – Puma Blue’s live band members each traversing their subconscious through surreal dream-like adventures

Jacob expands, “I wanted the video to evoke boyhood and be in conversation with the lyrics. The basic idea was to create a PlayStation style game paying homage to RHCP’s Californication video, but in a way that carried deep meaning for the band. I searched high and low for the right person who could capture the nostalgia of games like Silent Hill, Tomb Raider and Pro Skater until I found Quill (@grabmypepsi). I wrote him a script, and he animated it all from scratch. Then it got run through VHS right at the end so that it felt truly like it would if you were playing it in the late 90’s. It felt like a way to honour these friends and, in a strange way, the children we were back then.”

Puma Blue 2026 Live Dates

12 February – Numbers – Houston, TX – USA
13 February – Granada Theater – Dallas, TX – USA
14 February – Paper Tiger – San Antonio, TX – USA
16 February – Lowbrow Palace – El Paso, TX – USA
17 February – Crescent Ballroom – Phoenix, AZ – USA
18 February – Music Box – San Diego, CA – USA
20 February – The Belasco – Los Angeles, CA – USA
21 February – August Hall – San Francisco, CA – USA
23 February – Wonder Ballroom – Portland, OR – USA
24 February – Crocodile – Seattle, WA – USA
27 February – Amsterdam – St Paul, MN – USA
28 February – Outset – Chicago, IL – USA
3 March – Lee’s Palace – Toronto, ON – CAN
4 March – Théâtre Fairmount – Montreal, QC – CAN
6 March – Crystal Ballroom – Somerville, MA – USA
7 March – Irving Plaza – New York, NY – USA
10 March – Black Cat – Washington, DC – USA
11 March – Cat’s Cradle – Carrboro, NC – USA
12 March – The Masquerade (Hell) – Atlanta, GA – USA
31 March – Umeda Club Quattro – Osaka – Japan
1st April – Zepp Shinjuku – Tokyo – Japan
3rd April – SUB Live house – Taipei – Taiwan
5th April – Rolling Hall – Seoul – Republic of Korea
5 May – Cafe Berlin – Madrid – Spain
6 May – Sala La Nau – Barcelona – Spain
9 May – L’Octogone – Théâtre de Pully – Lausanne – Switzerland
10 May – Santeria Toscana – Milan – Italy
11 May – Locomotiv Club – Bologna – Italy
13 May – Kino Siska – Ljubljana – Slovenia
14 May – LIVE / EVIL – Munich – Germany
15 May – Palac Akropolis – Prague – Czechia
16 May – Porgy & Bess – Vienna – Austria
18 May – Hydrozagadka – Warsaw – Poland
19 May – Gretchen – Berlin – Germany
21 May – Melkweg – Amsterdam – Netherlands
22 May – Trix – Antwerp – Belgium
23 May – Le Trabendo – Paris – France
25 May – The Lantern – Bristol – United Kingdom
26 May – CHALK – Brighton – United Kingdom
28 May – Village Underground – London – United Kingdom
29 May – The Deaf Institute – Manchester – United Kingdom
30 May – The Glasgow School of Art – Glasgow – United Kingdom
1 June – Opium – Dublin – Ireland

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