Anglo-Canadian Tamsin Wilson, songwriter and frontwoman of Wilsen, sculpted much of the record in “fleeting pre-dawn moments” while in in New York City. The London-born artist, who formed the band with Drew Arndt and Johnny Simon while studying at the prestigious Berklee College of Music, relocated with her bandmates to NYC after graduation to focus on music.
I Go Missing In My Sleep is Wilsen’s debut album. They recorder it in
upstate New York and at The Farm Studio, located just outside of Philadelphia,
with producer Ben Baptie.
Many of the songs were composed in a tiny Brooklyn apartment in the fleeting
pre-dawn moments when New York City is mostly still. These beautifully crafted
original pieces capture an almost impossible sense of delicate quietness, and
when it came time to record them with the band – Drew Arndt on bass and
Johnny Simon on guitar – they unfurled at a nexus of hushed and heart-racing,
intimate folk paired with muscular yet restrained sonic experimentation.