About this item

Lonely Man's Dream marks a milestone for Forager Records: our tenth release, and perhaps our most personal. More than a compilation, it is a self-portrait. A reflection of the musical obsessions, late-night discoveries, and restless digging that have defined this label from our first record to this latest one.

Spanning the dreamy psychedelic folk of the 1970s to the cool shimmer of 1980s synth pop, Lonely Man's Dream traces a decade of curatorial wandering. Eleven artists. Eleven songs. Each one rare, obscure, or otherwise lost to the margins of music history. Among them, two tracks surface here for the very first time: “Never Say Goodbye” by Cocktails and Dreams, a synth pop transmission from Norway, luminous and weightless as the skies on the cover. “True Love” by Keith Jones, a drum machine backed demo that pulses with a late night intimacy.

What unites these songs across genre and era is the same quality we have always chased; a transporting ache, the sound of someone searching, or the feeling of a memory you can't quite place. Like every record before it, this one asks nothing of you but your full attention and an open ear.

Ten releases in, we are still looking for the same thing we started with. We hope you feel it too.

* Featuring a selection of songs sourced from rare records of the 70s & 80s reissued for the first time.
* Includes 2 unreleased songs from the 80s
* Original artwork by Eric Thompson
* Very limited initial first pressing

STAFF COMMENTS

Paul says: One of my favourite labels to dig the whole AOR / Balearic-rock scene returns with one of their best collections to date! Crack open a beer and kick back on the porch!

TRACK LISTING

A1.Sky Mitchell - Are You Ready
A2.Cocktails & Dreams - Never Say Goodbye
A3.Felix Linden - Love Another Day
A4.Lenny Lamb - Sam
A5.Crash & Buffalo - Lonely Man’s Dream
A6.Alexandre - I Need Love

B1.Spectrum - If You Change Your Mind
B2.Dealer - Second Chance
B3.Keith Jones - True Love
B4.Struggle - You
B5.Kenneth Maddox - Now That I Know My Love Is Real