Stay Golden announces Silent Covenant

Stay Golden has built virtual worlds, Burning Man structures and a place inside TOTEM Society, and now he’s building his first record for All Day I Dream.

Silent Covenant, seven tracks, came out August 14 on Lee Burridge’s All Day I Dream imprint. It’s his long-awaited debut there.

The record still carries the emotion and sense of escape the label’s known for. But Stay Golden leans harder into rhythm, a funk-inflected, groove-first strain of indie dance with real emphasis on movement. That’s a different register for All Day I Dream.

The album opens on the title track, then runs through ‘Fragments Of A Dream’, ‘RITUAL PAUSE’ and ‘Stay With Me’ as solo work before handing the back half to collaborators, Alexey Union, Broken Hill and Kinky Sound among them.

It’s trust running underneath all of it, tracing back to a night in Moscow.

Stay Golden first stood in the crowd at All Day I Dream there in 2016. Ten years on, he’s the one with the album out on the label.

Asked what shaped the record, Stay Golden pointed to the people on it: “The relationships that shaped me most were the ones formed while creating something together.”