2018 is going to be a busy year for CASEY

New album, new track and release shows – here’s all the deets.

Where I Go When I Am Sleeping is a jumble of snapshots and reactions and experiences and feelings that give us a glimpse inside Weaver’s head and his life, but which don’t necessarily tell a linear story. He was careful to make sure the accounts of his experiences, while referencing very specific things, were also relatable from an outside perspective. “What the last record taught me,” he says, “and what I really brought over to the new one is that I shouldn’t be dissuaded from talking about personal experiences and relating to individual moments or periods I remember quite vividly. But I was more confident in being able to pick those out and expand on them, whilst also diluting them to the point where I can still recognise what I’m talking about and other people can maybe apply them to their own situation.”

Recorded at rural Wales’ illustrious Monnow Valley Studios and produced by Brad Wood (Placebo, Sunny Day Real Estate, Touché Amoré), the songs that comprise the album are much more expansive, atmospheric and layered than anything Casey have done before. It’s a record that flows from one vividly depicted moment to the next, one memory to another. And while there is still some desperate rage and gutteral screaming in the likes of Wavering, Phosphenes and Flourescents, much has been replaced by calmer, though no less anxious, soundscapes. It makes for an incredibly cohesive and immersive record.