Daniel Trakell - Into the Blue (2023) [Hi-Res]

Daniel Trakell's 2nd album Into The Blue is out on November 24th 2023 through Dumont Dumont.

‘Into The Blue’ combines many musical genres from indie-folk to alt-country, the music and lyrics at different times evoking desert landscapes and the ocean. Drawing on inspiration from Elliott Smith, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen and Beck, Into The Blue (meaning to vanish without a trace) invites the listener to contemplate their own mortality on songs like Waves ("Big waves could drag me under, wash me out to sea, fill my lungs with water, deep enough to breathe), leaving everything behind on Into The Blue ("One day we'll leave and we'll never come back, ditch the roads cross the rivers and cover our tracks"), learning to trust your instincts on songs like Still ("The red flags waved and passed my by, should have known it all along") and being let down in the poignant Never Satisfied ("It's not enough for you to win, everybody else must lose to keep you satisfied")

The first half was recorded in an old church hall on the property of producer Josh Barber in the rural community of Mollongghip, 20 minutes from Daniel's hometown of Ballarat, before finishing up the second half with a live band at The Aviary studios in Abbotsford joined by Matt Dixon on pedal steel and Luke Richardson on double bass to record Still, Out of Time, Words of the Saviour, Waves and Never Satisfied.


Produced by longtime friend and collaborator Josh Barber (Gretta Ray, Queenie) who perfectly captures the mood and reflective quality of each song, weaving different layers of instrumentation where needed and stripping back to more sparse arrangements for the more emotional and poignant moments on the record.