hello everybody. it has been a while since i posted on the official website because i have been so intensely busy building and crafting the conclusions of several journeys in the studio. following on from the release of seven love songs in 2024, i was immensely proud of such a well received album and tour. the record is my most marketable album and one that i am pleased with. i know that the tracks on seven love songs have longevity and realise not only events in my life but also the endearing nuances of 1980’s pop culture both in the music videos and the tracks themselves.
after this album release i found myself in a strange place needing to contest with raw emotions and i began revisiting unfinished works of mine and realising new visions and ideas. i started to get back into the recording studio to put my feelings into sound.
what followed is the concept albums and songs that you will hear over the coming few years.
first up is ‘daniel’. this album is 7 tracks long and is driven by a post-punk intense and longing essence. the record chronicles the hardships of being autistic in an non-autistic world and experiencing the vulnerabilities of having an autistic mind, and experiencing non-autistic socio-sexual expectations through an autistic prism. it is an album centered around my early adolescence. i also decided to completely remake one of my most popular songs from ‘seven love songs’ called ‘more than you love me’ in the stylings of this new record and i hope you like this little twist. the record is now complete and ready for release in april 2025. i first visited this sound originally in 2019 and was interrupted by the global pandemic and a mental health battle that i very much won so iu am pleased to offer a wider and fuller realisation of the complete story that is ‘daniel’.
the second album i will release in 2025 will be titled ‘music for an honest winter funeral’. this record is 12 tracks long and will release in november 2025 in time for the christmas period. this album chronicles my experience of grief and losing people who have died whom i love and cherish dearly. the album is a mixture of music and lyrics on a backdrop of symphonic synths and chronicles a journey of grief from the moment of uncontrollable emotions, to anger, to pity, to healing and letting go. it is the definitive ‘daniel angelus winter album’, on a backdrop that i can only describe as very much the inner workings of my mind and personality. i would describe myself as someone who is content with the darker and more vivid experiences of life on earth due to my exposure to many haunting and traumatic experiences since early adolescence. this drives me to be my honest self in a world that is diverse, unique and nuanced in every beautiful detail. i see these details regularly and often drift out into the voids of my mind to explore new sensations, and see the beauty in everything. i imagine songs from this album fitting into the very emotional places that people may find themselves, embracing them with comfort and sincerity. to this end, one of the tracks from this album was played at the burial of a dear friend and colleague in the united states. i wrote the piece for this wonderful person and creator, and now i share it with the wider world on this album so they can be inspired by his greatness through their difficult times.
these two albums are complex and raw emotional records. i hope you find time to explore them and adopt them into your lives as you see fit, if you so desire.
i am grateful for the support over the years since 2007. everything comes to an end eventually. but for now, i have stories to tell and i will continue writing and recording so long as i feel inspired, able and willing.
daniel xox
