Dan Bardon set out as a songwriter after experiencing some sort of delirious epiphany, whilst fevered out of his mind in Southeast Asia. Upon his return to Belfast, he developed a fondness for blending his guitar and vocal with dreamy, analogue atmospherics.

Recording for ‘Sink a little Deeper’ began in the attic of a dilapidated Dublin mansion. Tracking was initially restricted to fifteen-minute intervals between interjections from the Rathmines clock tower, its bells forged in some infernal furnace.

Taking his production mobile, he drew upon an eclectic cast of musicians as he built rich arrangements in attics and studios across the UK and Ireland – stopping into Start Together in Belfast, Apollo in Dublin and The Square in Hoxton.

Postproduction took place on the front porch of a beach hut on India’s Andaman Islands, during a residency running raves under the stars. He went scuba diving with his guitar for the cover art before heading to Brighton Electric to do the final mix.

Since then, he’s made a name for himself as an accomplished and emotive performer – sending waves of soulful folkatronica crashing over jubilant dancers at his Ecstatic in the Attic all-nighters in Belfast city centre and playing at festivals like Belfast Nashville, Sunflower and Electric Picnic.