It's not often a eureka moment happens while you're sleeping, but for Devin Abrams of Pacific Heights that's exactly what happened.
Inspiration for his latest album A Lost Light came thick and fast, each and every song based on a vivid dream he had last year.
"I woke up having kind of tears still in my eyes having experienced this in the first-person - all these emotions in the story, in the dream."
It was so raw that Abrams immediately sprung out of bed to put pen to paper. From that moment the album was born and took him just two weeks to write from start to finish.
"If you could only pre-order dreams like this for every album."
In the dream, Abrams says he was a young working class man in London in the mid-18th century. He leaves his wife behind to board a ship in search of a better life for his family in the Pacific.
"The first few tracks of the album are these kind of hopeful peaceful tracks that are just dreamy, you know, dreaming of this place you have no idea about or what it might smell like, feel like or look like.
"Then quickly the album turns and we get thrown overboard, and it's all about survival for a few tracks, and then the last stage of the album is about grief."
Abrams also teamed up with photographer Rob Burrowes to create a short film alongside the album. The visual project picks up where the dream left off.
"I think I just love crossing platforms and crossing disciplines, because I think that after 20 years of being a musician... I'd probably get too boring."
But Abrams is far from it. Not only has he clocked up more than a few miles in the music industry, he's also a university lecturer and a new father.
He was even the producing mastermind behind Drax Project's hit song 'Woke Up Late', a very different sound from Abrams' own album, which has gone from dream to reality.
You can view the full version of the short film A Lost Light on YouTube.
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