Spiritual Drift by Ali Murray
Tracklist
| 1. | Blue Tree | 2:32 |
| 2. | Where Is Time Going? | 3:54 |
| 3. | Dear Evelyn | 3:46 |
| 4. | Abuser | 3:48 |
| 5. | The Natural World | 2:13 |
| 6. | The Greenery | 4:04 |
| 7. | Over The End | 3:11 |
| 8. | Spiritual Drift (ft. Lyndsie Alguire) | 4:26 |
| 9. | Vale of Sweet Serenity | 3:19 |
| 10. | I Held You At The End Of Time | 4:04 |
Credits
released November 19, 2025
'Spiritual Drift' marks the final album Ali Murray intends to put out under his own name. It closes the chapter on a decade-and-a-half of DIY output that began in 2010 and carried him through a quietly consistent run of albums and EPs. The album serves as a series of swan songs for an emotional epoch.
It's a personal reckoning revealed through the exploration of intersections between shoegaze, ambient psych folk, darkwave electronica and acoustic dreampop, leaning into the darker corners of lyrical storytelling.
Introspectively shrouded in isolation, and washed in texture, the atmosphere of the album mirrors the cold, windswept isolation of its geographical conception. Spectral weight grounds and transcends through melody as diaphanous relays of confessionalism meet fragile oscillations of reverb.
Lyrically, 'Spiritual Drift' moves through anxiety, heartbreak, loneliness, and loss, brushing up against themes of cosmic bewilderment, small-town claustrophobia, and a faint sense of the apocalyptic.
It stands as a candid meditation for anyone who has surrendered to quiescent stagnation and stared too long at the scars of their inner world as they meet the heartlessness of the horizon.
Authenticity as a form of integrity has always been a cornerstone of Murray’s sound; that ethos lingers within this anthology of honesty, written without apology or expectation, driven purely by the need to transmit bare, melancholic truth from a cold, wet rock in the middle of nowhere...
- Amelia Vandergast
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This album was written, recorded, produced, engineered and mixed by Ali Murray on the Isle Of Lewis in the north of Scotland using home recording equipment.
Guest vocals on 'Spiritual Drift' by Lyndsie Alguire.
Mastered by Allister Thompson.
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Artwork : Mark Kinrade
Contact : alimurraymusic@hotmail.com
Copyright © 2025 Dead Forest Records.
'Spiritual Drift' marks the final album Ali Murray intends to put out under his own name. It closes the chapter on a decade-and-a-half of DIY output that began in 2010 and carried him through a quietly consistent run of albums and EPs. The album serves as a series of swan songs for an emotional epoch.
It's a personal reckoning revealed through the exploration of intersections between shoegaze, ambient psych folk, darkwave electronica and acoustic dreampop, leaning into the darker corners of lyrical storytelling.
Introspectively shrouded in isolation, and washed in texture, the atmosphere of the album mirrors the cold, windswept isolation of its geographical conception. Spectral weight grounds and transcends through melody as diaphanous relays of confessionalism meet fragile oscillations of reverb.
Lyrically, 'Spiritual Drift' moves through anxiety, heartbreak, loneliness, and loss, brushing up against themes of cosmic bewilderment, small-town claustrophobia, and a faint sense of the apocalyptic.
It stands as a candid meditation for anyone who has surrendered to quiescent stagnation and stared too long at the scars of their inner world as they meet the heartlessness of the horizon.
Authenticity as a form of integrity has always been a cornerstone of Murray’s sound; that ethos lingers within this anthology of honesty, written without apology or expectation, driven purely by the need to transmit bare, melancholic truth from a cold, wet rock in the middle of nowhere...
- Amelia Vandergast
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This album was written, recorded, produced, engineered and mixed by Ali Murray on the Isle Of Lewis in the north of Scotland using home recording equipment.
Guest vocals on 'Spiritual Drift' by Lyndsie Alguire.
Mastered by Allister Thompson.
---
Artwork : Mark Kinrade
Contact : alimurraymusic@hotmail.com
Copyright © 2025 Dead Forest Records.
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Ali Murray is a Scottish-Filipino songwriter & musician from the cold windy Isle of Lewis, in the north of Scotland.
He wrote and released a sizeable body of work under his own name between 2010 and 2025 via his own label - Dead Forest Records.
He also writes dark introspective ambient music as The Lonely Bell...
thelonelybell.bandcamp.com/