London musician Fabiana Palladino has shared new single ‘I Can’t Dream Anymore’, via Paul Institute/XL Recordings.Following previous releases ‘I Care’ and ‘Stay With Me Through The Night’, ‘I Can’t Dream Anymore’ sees the singer lean unabashedly into power ballad territory.
Speaking on the Avant-pop single and forthcoming album, Palladino says: “I wrote ‘I Can’t Dream Anymore’ in a period of the first lockdown where I was staying up too late, writing songs for the album alone and the intensity and unreality of everything started to affect my sleep…I realised after a while that even when i did sleep, I wasn’t really dreaming. Everything felt very surreal and it reminded me of when I’ve been in the aftermath of big changes, those moments in life where everything shifts and you have to reconfigure yourself. There’s real heartache in not being able to dream anymore, not being able to imagine a future or remember a feeling from the past so I didn’t want to shy away from the big feelings in the lyrics.”
The single is released alongside a music video conceptualised by Fabiana, directed by Josh Renaut and Caroline Waxse, placing Palladino aboard the mythic Radio Caroline ship.
Palladino continues: “I listened to the shipping forecast for comfort during the time of writing the album. I found it relaxing but it was also a kind of escapism for me. The isolation I was feeling felt more romantic when I listened to it. I’d be playing this imagined, isolated version of myself out to sea, completely alone but connected to others by broadcasting my radio show from the ship late into the night which is how I connected with Radio Caroline for the video. A theme across the album is connection and disconnection. It’s something I’m fascinated by and the video represents it in a way which feels specific to ‘I Can’t Dream Anymore‘…
Tune in now.
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Later this year, Fabiana Palladino will travel across UK for her debut headline tour, including newly-announced festival performances at Green Man, Latitude, and RALLY Festival. For more information or to buy tickets, head to fabianapalladino.com.
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Photo Credit: Josh Renaut
