– real name Jacob Allen – today releases ‘Croak Deluxe’, the extended edition of his latest album, out via Play It Again Sam.

Featuring five new tracks along with four bristling live recordings, the deluxe album expands upon the trip-hop, dub and nocturnal crooning of his acclaimed work, ‘’.

Recorded at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios with co-producer and mixer Sam Petts-Davies (Thom Yorke, Warpaint), ‘Croak Dream’ expands Puma Blue’s sonic world through a more idiosyncratic approach. The band recorded textural ideas over fragmented loops of demos rather than precise arrangements. Back in London, Jacob and Sam assembled these improvisations into elaborated sound collages.

With the deluxe reveal, Puma Blue shares a new video for the emotionally-charged track. ‘Untitled 1’.

Of the track, Jacob says:

“‘Untitled 1’ comes from a poem I wrote long ago. There’s a song from my debut EP, Swum Baby, called ‘Untitled 2’. People have always asked me, ‘where is the first one?’ They were neighbors in a notebook.

The second of these two poems already ended up as lyrics, whilst the first didn’t have any kind of sonic home until recently. To me it’s a piece about longing, and the hungry appetite of the shadow. The dark one watching for any sign of slip.

The idea for the video formed after sitting with the symbols in the poem and watching a lot of Twin Peaks. My fiancée and I shot it in a couple of hours with her super-8 camera. The location was more tricky because we had to travel to another dimension to get there and there was no sure way back, but I hope it was worth it.”

Tune in now.