Claire Dickson The Beholder Vinyl LP 2024

1. Tug On the Sleep Veil
2. Throw My Desire
3. Your House
4. You Don't Stop
5. In the Night
6. The Beholder
7. Thrill of Still
8. Skin of Words
9. Talons

On the album, Dickson casts herself as 'the beholder': an archetype she formulated during the songwriting process. 'The beholder radiates outward and forward. They observe, they love, they dream. Their sense of self becomes fractured and dreamlike, defined by their surroundings and the person they love. Without reliable pattern or repetition, the beholder feels both free and unencumbered and lost and undefined. Their desire gives them a feeling of expansiveness and freedom, although they also feel trapped by it because a part of their self is dictated by someone else'. Through the 9 songs on 'The Beholder', Dickson walks the listener through a series of ambient dreamscapes using a collection of samples, found sounds, synths, layered vocals, and sparse percussion to create songs that are constantly evolving.