Halifax’s Ellur closes out the preview campaign for her debut album with “Dream Of Mine,” released 6th January 2026 via Dance To The Radio. Co-written with Jack Leonard (UNKLE), it’s the most Americana she’s sounded yet, and it suits her.
The track moves. Drums push forward whilst guitars shimmer underneath, building a progressive momentum as though she’s trying to get the words out before they’re lost.
Her lush timbre carries vulnerability and warmth wrapped together, cutting through without needing to perform either quality.
Written years ago when her career was starting to gain traction, “Dream Of Mine” chronicles the specific anxiety of wondering if your partner will stick around when your job requires constant sacrifice.
The interesting bit isn’t the relationship worry, it’s what sits underneath it. When Ellur sings about running for the chaos, to be seen under the lights, she frames ambition not as recklessness but as something she can’t shrink without disappearing.
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Ellur zeroes in on how women get pressured to apologise for ambition whilst male artists rarely face the same expectation.
“You don’t really hear male rock stars apologising for wanting success,” she points out, and the whole song quietly expands on that observation.
The production draws from The War on Drugs and The Cure without copying either. Spacious, driving, just enough grit to avoid sounding too clean.
It’s the sound of someone who’s thought about the conflict long enough to transform guilt into something that moves forward instead of circling back.
“Dream Of Mine” succeeds because it makes carrying that weight feel less like a burden and more like a kind of progress.
Wanting a career and feeling selfish about it can coexist.
The song just lets both exist. The driving rhythm and the lyrical guilt aren’t at odds, they’re intertwined.