At a seminar given by George Benjamin, he described how seeing sound physically produced him front of him live (as opposed to recorded) was his “obsession”.

This stayed with me for a long time and eventually shaped my understanding that my own obsession is almost the opposite – much like reading a novel compared to attending a play, listening to recorded music in the form of an album is a uniquely warm, personal, intimate experience.

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We Deliver (2022)

A sprawling and surprisingly epic endeavour, We Deliver is a smorgasbord of musical diary entries composed across seven years. Featuring an extensive list of collaborators, this beyond-personal project both reflects the history of its creator and embodies his lovingly crafted questions about the past, present & future of the album as a musical form.

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The Passenger (2015)

Daniel’s first album The Passenger was named after the Michelangelo Antonioni film of the same name, and was inspired by a David Lynch quote describing Barry Adamson’s music being “like hearing Hitchcock films in your head”.