Following a stream of thematic and conceptual albums over the last 15 years Darren Hayman has recently returned to a more introspective, personal kind of music.

Darren is the only musician on the album and the music conforms to a strict set of self-imposed rules; only one voice, only 12 tracks, only one polyphonic instrument. ¨Through this control and limited palette I found new melodies and structures. I wanted these old machines to guide me towards my most human record.¨

'A Real Human Being' is inspired by Darren's experience of life drawing. "Modern life encourages us to reduce people to images, jokes, memes. In life drawing, you're treating the person as a form, watching where the light and shadows fall, and then you're reminded that they are real, alive."

In 'No Lime for the Gin', a group of old friends is reunited in middle age, holding a half-hearted party where the talk is dominated by their hopes and broken dreams. 'Turn My Grey Tick Blue' is a wry look at the anxieties of dating in the digital age.

'You Were Always Here' ends the album on an optimistic note. Finding love late in life, the narrator ruminates on how the bad things happened for a reason, and that perhaps we always end up where we're supposed to be.

You Will Not Die is a much slower and more brooding voyage. It is a seductive, soulful collection of songs and instrumentals that sits among Darren's most emotive and intelligent work

A1) How It Could Be

A2) You Were My Map

A3) Don't Haunt Me

A4) A Real Human Being

A5) Let's Drift

A6) Love Is Through

B1) Otium

B2) A Room Within A Room

B3) No Lime For The Gin

B4) The Safest Way

B5) Turn My Grey Tick Blue

B6) Feel Like This Every Night

C1) Girls Who Look Like You

C2) Here's The Stillness

C3) Loser Run

C4) Say You Want To Be Alone

C5) We Are Repaired

C6) Easter Gold

D1) Actually I Still Really, Really Miss You

D2) Holiday Eyes

D3) Where Were You

D4) Adverse Camber

D5) I Am Owned

D6) You Were Always Here