Maisie Peters has released the first of two collaborations with Marcus Mumford from her upcoming album, Say My Name In Your Sleep.
The 25-year-old singer-songwriter has unveiled the title track from her upcoming third studio album, inspired by Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 Gothic novel Rebecca.
Maise revealed there was a “magical and spooky” atmosphere surrounding her and the Mumford and Sons frontman as they crafted the delicate tune at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in Wiltshire.
Maisie – who co-wrote and co-produced the track with Marcus – said: “Say My Name In Your Sleep is a song about both haunting and being haunted.
“It’s about keeping a constant eye on the past – on the person you loved – whilst being old enough and grown enough to know it wasn’t right, and to wish them all the best. It’s about having a tiny, secret sliver of your heart that still, deep down, hopes and prays they think of you – just a little, just when it’s dark, just when they hear that song on the radio. It’s about letting go, begrudgingly, but letting your shadow linger a moment too long.”
Maisie – who is signed to Ed Sheeran’s Gingerbread Man Records – added: “It was one of the first songs Marcus and I wrote together in Real World Studios in deep winter – there was something magical and spooky in the air there, and I think it definitely got translated into this song.”