‘You Were In My Dream Last Night’ (out now) and ‘Bye Bye’ (out 27th February 2026) mark the long-awaited return of Nostalgia 77, and signal the first new material from his forthcoming album When The Lights Gone, due this May via Third Stream Recordings.
Both tracks see Nostalgia 77 revisiting the hazy, emotionally rich territory that defined his earlier work, blending jazz and folk textures with understated, bittersweet songwriting. They also reunite him with Berlin-based vocalist Yosa Peit, whose fragile, intimate delivery sits at the heart of the recordings.
The collaboration was rekindled in Berlin, where the pair worked on material for the album between winter walks through the snow. At the time, Yosa was preparing to start a family, and the atmosphere of transition and reflection shaped the tone of the sessions.
“Becoming immersed in family life is such an all-encompassing experience,” says Nostalgia 77. “Sometimes songs aren’t about anything more specific than a feeling – but a feeling is more than enough.”
‘You Were In My Dream Last Night’ leans into that dreamlike quality, pairing sparse arrangements with Yosa’s weightless vocal, while ‘Bye Bye’ moves further into emotional abstraction – less a narrative than a study in mood and memory. Both tracks offer a glimpse of an album that is markedly personal in scope, drawing on themes of time, change and domestic life.
Between 2004 and 2014, Nostalgia 77 released an influential run of eleven albums. In the years since, he stepped back from issuing solo material while remaining deeply embedded in the studio, working across London’s jazz spectrum with artists including Ezra Collective, Kokoroko, Jamie Cullum, Mark Kavuma, Pat Thomas and Alexander Hawkins.
“I love the energy and inspiration that comes from spending time in the studio with different musicians,” Nostalgia 77 explains. “Everyone you meet has something interesting they bring and that you can learn from – it could be a concept or a sound.”
When The Lights Gone will see him release a body of work written over recent years, spanning traditional jazz, soul and singer-songwriter influences, and reflecting a period of personal and creative recalibration.
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