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As Nightlands, Philadelphia multi-instrumentalist David Hartley makes enormous, warm and thunderous music. Hartley has been a prolific member of many Philadelphia groups, most notably The War On Drugs.

The music he creates in his bedroom is itself a bed of delicate, chiming strings and bubbling synths beneath a blanket of choral arrangements. It's dreamy in the literal sense - the seeds for the album were sown when Hartley began archiving musical ideas that occurred in his sleep with a simple bedside tape recorder. As a result ‘Forget the Mantra’ is, in essence, a field recording of Hartley's dreams.