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 humour, 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 features striking cover artwork by Annabel Wright.

1. Being Left By Today
2. Feather And A Bird
3. Disinformation
4. El, El, El
5. Secret Of Dead Youth
6. Queen Christina The Second
7. Keep Rest In Thunder (My Dying Day)
8. Is Anybody There? / What Am I Afraid Of?
9. Somethin’ Funny Goin’ On
10. Twenty & Twenty Two / Mealy Tell I Am
11. Warehouse
12. Right / Wrong
13. Beautiful Dream
14. Shirley Brassy / Bushed
15. Leave Me Alone
16. Tie Your Hands
17. Who I’m Married To
18. First Time
19. California Girl
20. High Alone
21. Money Dream
22. Mackenzie’s Return
23. I Found It
24. Altogether Hollow World