Available now for the first time on streaming and vinyl (limited to just 150 copies on our very own Heart Swells label), is Tom’s soundtrack for the short-film Sleep Singing.

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Tom says: “Back in May 2021, the director Bradley Porter got in touch with me to discuss the possibility of doing a score. The Short Shorts Film Festival in Tokyo were funding his pitch for a short musical and he needed some original music for it. We had a lovely chat where Bradley professed his love for musicals and i revealed my indifference towards them, but it was hard not to be excited by his idea. I don’t have a huge amount of scoring experience, and had never done anything like a dance/musical, so it felt like a big challenge, but also just a lot of fun.

And something about emerging from that second lockdown and putting all these pent-up emotions into this extravagant, visually dynamic film was a huge creative, and emotional, release for me. Getting to embrace the melodrama and bombast of a musical felt entirely in keeping with all the extremes of emotion we’d experienced over that last year or so, and i was really grateful for the opportunity and Bradley’s vision.

Anyway, we were so pleased with how it turned out that we decided to do a small physical run of the score, and it’s available now!

Thanks to Bradley for getting me involved, Angelica for her amazing vocals, and Eileen and Dora’s beautiful strings.

Mix: Gareth Bodman. Master: Simon Francis”

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