About Strange Lands and People

South African-born and London-based alternative singer / songwriter Daniel Gadd returns with his second studio album About Strange Lands and People, a new collection of songs – soft-spoken, warm, nostalgic and dreamlike. Recorded at The Premises Studios in London, the folk influences and gentle, reflective nature of Gadd’s debut album are still there, but they’ve evolved into something a little less fragile and sparse. Each song is a kind of vignette – a window into a different place, time or personality. The influences of Leonard Cohen’s draw-you-in vocals and Bob Dylan’s lyrical turns of phrase are hard to miss. Thematically, there’s a sense of wandering woven throughout the album’s ten tracks. Whether it’s about a relationship, a friendship, a feeling of being out of place or even a feeling of being in the right place, each track in its own way seems to deal with the fact that the search has to continue and never really ends. About Strange Lands and People follows Gadd’s 2017 debut As If in a Dream I Drifted at Sea, a set of eight intimate songs recorded in a small fishing village on the coast of Cape Town, described in Mojo by writer Sylvie Simmons as having had “a similar impact on me as Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago: a songwriter isolated among the elements with his memories who emerges with a mesmerising collection of songs.”