Daystar

by Visit Me

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Jeff Walls
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Jeff Walls A wildly beautiful little album - there's something really charming about the approach - lo-fi but fully rendered and easeful. The kind of thing you listen to lots of music in order to find.
ghosttropics
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ghosttropics An unassuming and brilliant little record, this is the kind of hidden gem my music digging dreams are made of. Fans ML Buch, Movietone, Acetone, or the new Cancer House record; may I introduce your new favourite band
Kevin Reinhardt
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Kevin Reinhardt I have met them and I can testify that as people they are joyous and their music is a great companion to take out walking.
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HGGM2843 Great music and lovely people!! Favorite track: This Weekend.
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1.
Spin 05:30
I came back imagining that everything was the same But the leaves had fallen from the trees And covered everything And the river was grey I came back imagining that everything was the same But the faces I see in the street Are upside down and strange And spun around Spin me around If it's not here Where is it now My old friend is a funny dancer Is a secret door In a bedroom wall We keep our eyes peeled for the answer On New Year's Eve From the windowsill You're losing again Losing again Like you did before
2.
Rattle Out 01:11
3.
This Weekend 04:16
Low light cast over birch trees Silver fish scales Swimming in a line over the first star In an aging sky I like to see the smiling faces From a distance I wish that I had something to write in a letter to you But every thought in your direction is mute See the lights pass into the water Like arrows in the side of the bull Best friends notice if you turn it around Think of something to say to keep me on the ground And stop me from spinning into space I wish that I could say the things I've found to be true But every truth I come across is subtle and mute See the lights pass into the water Like arrows in the side of the bull I do it all for you I do I do
4.
Croyland 06:57
I'm not a praying man But my days are very strange I close my eyes and dream Of darkness on the range And light across the water One day in the summer I woke and it was brighter The roof lifted clean off And all the birds were swarming Around my old furniture And I could see the picture Forming in the mirror Of the inside of my body And sunlight in my hands I'm hiding And I can't stop hiding How can I tell you
5.
In the evening heat A hill to climb over Someone with a dream To see the water I admit defeat I can see you're braver Walk ahead of me All along the river
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54601 06:20
As very young children Asleep on the drive Trees made of silver And no-one in sight Clouds roll past the window The sun and the moon Land's end to somewhere The pull of the new Near us as we drive Just out of sight 54601 Starts on its climb All the boys in their linen summer suits Rushing to meet it The Lickey Incline Cadbury toposcope spinning The top of the hill The wonderful climb

credits

released April 22, 2026

Visit Me is:
Ben Nicolson - guitar, engineering
Lily Casey - voice, keyboard, guitar
Maz Gilkes - voice, keyboard, guitar

thanks to:
Joseph Khan - master
Anna-Maria Woodrow - water and voice
Jenny Hartnoll - bed and board

Recorded and mixed by Ben Nicolson in Frome over a weekend in 2025

Released and distributed by Smudge Records SR-001

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Visit Me’s debut album Daystar is a swirling haze of pop forms, tortured children’s keyboards, and accidental progressive rock. Coming from wildly different places of inspiration and imagination, childhood collaborators Lily Casey and Maz Gilkes joined forces with Ben Nicolson in the summer of 2025 to realise their patchwork vision of pop music to come. What followed was a summer of gigs and songwriting which established their distinctive sound through their 2 vocal, 2 keyboard, 2 guitar setup.

Emerging from the organ lofts of the project’s early Cambridge days, Daystar sees the three piece embrace more sunlit sounds, allowing descant vocals to be illuminated against modal drones and saturated guitar swells. Across the album’s duration, the close vocal harmonies serve as a keystone around which swirl reverse cymbal hits, helicopter noises and myriad sounds never intended to be played through a Public Address system. While songs such as ‘This Weekend’ and ‘54601’ would not find themselves out of place at a child’s birthday party, the epic centre piece ‘Croyland/Smudge in the Sky’ conjures beatific visions and East Anglian landscapes.

Based between London, York and the West Country, the band have enjoyed regular gigs in London and East Anglia in 2026, recently supporting caroline at the Storey’s Field Centre, Cambridge. On their travels they have received comparisons to Cocteau Twins, Grouper and Peter Gabriel and have assembled a small gang of bewildered listeners.

Daystar was recorded and mixed onto half inch tape in a Frome bedroom, over 4 days in September 2025. The album was released by Smudge Records on the 22nd of April 2026.

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