Dream Nails shares new single ‘The Spirit Does Not Burn’

London-based rock trio Dream Nails unveiled their highly anticipated third studio album “You Wish” via Marshall Records last Friday. In support of the album, the band also shares an intimate run of UK in-store events, that started yesterday at Kingston’s Banquet Records. A full list of dates can be found below.

Recorded with the acclaimed producer and engineer Ali Chant (Dry Cleaning, Katy J Pearson, Sorry, Yard Act), “You Wish” features some of their most creative and vulnerable work to date. Focus track “The Spirit Does Not Burn” explores endurance and survival in the face of hardship through stark, primal imagery, inspired by Serbian performance artist Mariana Abramovic and her work “The Spirit Does Not Burn”.

That sense of primalism underpins the album as a whole. The band embraced a more tactile, elemental approach to making music – from Lucy playing drums barefoot to the use of hand percussion and unusual vocal techniques for added texture. While there has always been a rawness inherent in their sound, “You Wish” brings it decisively into the foreground.

The accompanying video offers a behind-the-scenes look at the band in the studio, capturing the process behind the song’s creation.

Shares vocalist/bassist Mimi Jasson:

“This song is about remaining strong even in the most challenging of circumstances. Darkness falls and cave paintings dance in the firelight. We imagine a primal human crouching in her cave, facing down a predator and fighting for her life.”

Drummer Lucy Katz comments:

“I saw ‘The Spirit In Any Condition Does Not Burn’ in an exhibition, and sent a postcard of it to Anya and Mimi in the post. We all found the phrase a strong statement of endurance; a true message of hope passed from artist-to-artist, and it gave us determination to carry on both personally and as a band, just as Abramovic has had to do herself many times.”

Remarks guitarist Anya Pearson:

“This was the first song we wrote for this album and the skeleton instrumental and lyrics emerged very quickly and naturally between the three of us. The lyric “Animals move on the walls” references an archaeological theory that cave paintings functioned like early animations, and would appear to move in the flickering firelight.”

Steam ‘You Wish’ here

‘You Wish’ Tracklisting

1. The Only Way Out is Through
2. This Is Water
3. Organoid
4. The Spirit Does Not Burn
5. Pack My Wax
6. House of Bones
7. The Information
8. Can’t Lose
9. Move Like An Animal
10. Zeros
11. A Sign

TOUR DATES 2026
 
UK & EU
7th February @ Banquet in-store event (Kingston, UK)
8th February @ Rough Trade Denmark Street in-store event (London, UK)
9th February @ Rough Trade in-store event (Nottingham, UK)
10th February @ Crash in-store event (Leeds, UK)
11th February @ Jacaranda in-store event (Liverpool, UK)
17th February @ Zerox (Newcastle, UK)
18th February @ Hug & Pint (Glasgow, UK)
19th February @ Ulster Sports Club (Belfast, UK)
20th February @ CMRW (Camarthen, UK)
22th February @ Deaf Institute Lodge (Manchester, UK)
27th February @ The Louisiana (Bristol, UK)
28th February @ Green Door Store (Brighton, UK)
1st March @ Voodoo Daddy’s (Norwich, UK)
5th March @ Roessli Reitschule (Bern, CH)
6th March @ Gaswerk (Winterthur, CH)
7th March @ Das Werk (Vienna, AT)
8th March @ EDP (Cologne, DE)
9th March @ Neue Zukunft (Berlin, DE)
10th March @ Molotow (Top Ten Bar) (Hamburg, DE)
12th March @ Willem Twee (Den Bosch, NL)
13th March @ Supersonic (Paris, FR)