Awakening Imagination

Recorded between the mountains of Spain, the neon haze of Boston and broadcast
from the streets of Glasgow. This is Gil De Ray’s first vinyl statement since the
Rough Trade Album of The Week, A Riot Of Sound.

Channelling the emotional drama of 60s girl groups, the woozy heat of exotica and
fuzzed‐out psychedelia, Awakening Imagination is a collection of haunted
psychedelic pop / torch songs for the doom scroll generation. It sits neatly alongside
the surrealist, hypnagogic pop universe of Cindy Lee, but speaks in Gil De Ray’s
own voice: a cinematic, late‐night transmission for listeners who want their
heartbreak widescreen, distorted and glowing. Written in the shadow of televised
genocide and permanent crisis, these songs reflect a world of isolation, frustration
and righteous anger. The album was produced and mixed by Michael Hlady of
Holiday Music in Boston, USA.