IYAMAH - Chasing Dreams (Single)

“Chasing Dreams” is the new single from Brighton-born London-based artist Sophie Bond AKA IYAMAH (eye-yam-ah) taken from her upcoming 10-track album ‘In Two Worlds’, set for release in early 2024. Stripped back in both production and sentiment, “Chasing Dreams” sees IYAMAH explore her relationship with grief and her desperation to want to escape it. The sparseness of the track leaves room for the endless longing of the lyrics to hypnotise the listener into their own dreamlike state. The result is both as personal and universal as grief always is, highlighting IYAMAH’s clever lyricism.

The draw of dreams vs reality echoes across IYAMAH’s upcoming project ‘In Two Worlds’. In examining what it is to dream, to hope and to want, she identifies the difference between those whose dreams remain a fantasy, and those who manifest their dreams into existence; “what is about the parallel universes that separates, divides and pushes them away?”, she asks. Across ‘In Two Worlds’, IYAMAH analyses her relationship with her past and her inner child and the impact this has had on her relationships with nature, money, religion, and spirituality, all the while questioning how such a dreamer could ever get so lost in the in-between of two worlds between hopeful fantasy and manifested reality.