Ali Murray - Spiritual Drift
(Dead Forest Records, 2025)
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Hi everyone. Today is the release day of my new album 'Spiritual Drift'. This is the final album that I intend to release under my own name...
Even though no one looks at this blog, I just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who has supported my work over the last 15 years. I really appreciate it. And please do check out my back catalogue of work. I'll still be using the Bandcamp platform, so it's best to follow me on there. I'll keep this blog here too, so if I have any future announcements - I can post about them here...
I'll be deleting my Ali Murray social media accounts soon.
Thank you and take care,
Ali.
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'Spiritual Drift' marks the final album Ali Murray intends to put out under his own name. It closes the chapter on a decade-and-a-half of DIY output that began in 2010 and carried him through a quietly consistent run of albums and EPs. The album serves as a series of swan songs for an emotional epoch.
It's a personal reckoning revealed through the exploration of intersections between shoegaze, ambient psych folk, darkwave electronica and acoustic dreampop, leaning into the darker corners of lyrical storytelling. Introspectively shrouded in isolation, and washed in texture, the atmosphere of the album mirrors the cold, windswept isolation of its geographical conception. Spectral weight grounds and transcends through melody as diaphanous relays of confessionalism meet fragile oscillations of reverb.
Lyrically, 'Spiritual Drift' moves through anxiety, heartbreak, loneliness, and loss, brushing up against themes of cosmic bewilderment, small-town claustrophobia, and a faint sense of the apocalyptic. It stands as a candid meditation for anyone who has surrendered to quiescent stagnation and stared too long at the scars of their inner world as they meet the heartlessness of the horizon.
Authenticity as a form of integrity has always been a cornerstone of Murray’s sound; that ethos lingers within this anthology of honesty, written without apology or expectation, driven purely by the need to transmit bare, melancholic truth from a cold, wet rock in the middle of nowhere...
- Amelia Vandergast
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