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I Dream Of Black out now

The Thomas White debut LP “I Dream Of Black” is out now nationwide and to the world via all good download sites. Available from the Drift Shop ships worldwide for £10 – delicious digipack (whilst stocks last!) Also at iTunes

Stream album track Starry Nite #2 at NME.com’s Media Page

Preview tracks on Thomas’s Myspace Info: Drift Blog — Drift Website

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Q Mag August 2008: I Dream Of Black (Drift, **** Q Recommends) recalls the psychedelic-rock splendour of Spiritualized at their peak.

It’s ‘Will The Moon Ever Rise Again?’ that really steals the show – a song as worthy as any crooner or blue-eyed soul boy. It’s simply heartbreaking in lyrical content and emotional arrangement. Thank heavens Thomas White is a workaholic, as this solo album is one of the most remarkable albums of the year, and all recorded in a basement to boot – Artrocker

Largely experimental, slighly mental, ‘I Dream Of Black’ may very well be the best thing Thomas White has ever produced – Culture Deluxe

He seems to be in possession of some sort of magic quality music elixir, one that’s capable of stretching out genre boundaries while never losing sight of the qualities of a good tune… Chalk another one up in his credit column – Sweeping The Nation

Overall proceedings are versatile, essentially original and engaging. Moreover ‘I Dream Of Black’ is a somewhat unusual album, in that it is as much of itself while simultaneously sounding like some distant album soundtracking a lost, forgotten 60’s film – Subba-Culture

It’s delightful and you can’t but marvel – Clash

In a word, brilliant. A striking slab of old-school lo-fi indie, if you like early Domino or Drag City stuff then you’ll lap this up. It’s out on Drift Records who are fast becoming one of the best UK indie’s ever – Is This Music

...a lo-fi record, likened by the man himself to what ESP’s songs often sound like in their embryonic form. ‘I Dream Of Black’ contains snippets, slightly unformed songs, which befit the scratchy home recording style of the whole. It’s rewarding, not least the incendiary, swirling My Bloody Valentine-esque ‘The Runaround’, which is possibly the most impressive and innovative thing on offer and makes you wonder how White would get on with the kind of time and money Kevin Shields had to record ‘Loveless’. As it is, we can enjoy another album from a prolific artist showing an admirable do-it-yourself ethos – CMU Daily