With the benefit of hindsight, Alice Ivy was in wonderland when she cut Don’t Sleep. The new LP captures a glorious time not so long ago, filled with mates and late nights in faraway places.
That was, before the pandemic ruined everything. Speaking with Billboard from her home in Melbourne, which has just entered a second lockdown, Don’t Sleep is the followup to 2018’s critically-lauded I'm Dreaming.
Spanning 13 tracks, Don’t Sleep was written across a dizzying stretch of timezones, and features a diverse lineup with numerous female, non-binary, LGBTQI+, and BIPOC artists and voices. "I’m a very collaborative person," she explains. "I would have struggled to get a lot of things over the line (stuck) in a room by myself." In the mixing
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