Maisie Peters has quietly returned, and she is bringing chills in more ways than one. Fresh off her intimate Before the Bloom comeback shows in London and New York, which sold out instantly, she has shared a haunting new track titled “Say My Name In Your Sleep,” her first collaboration with two time Grammy winner Marcus Mumford.
Handpicked as Zane Lowe’s New Music Daily track of the day, ‘Say My Name In Your Sleep’ is built on delicate fingerpicked guitar and loosely inspired by Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 Gothic novel Rebecca. Contemplating love’s lasting imprint, its push and pull between past and future underpins one of the album’s central arcs: how the right love helps you heal from the wrong one.
“‘Say My Name In Your Sleep’ is a song about both haunting and being haunted,” explains Maisie. “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 continues: “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.”
“Say My Name In Your Sleep” arrives as excitement builds around her soon to be announced third album. It also follows her recent releases “You You You” and “Audrey Hepburn,” two singles that set the tone for this new era. “You You You” looks back on heartbreak with raw clarity, while “Audrey Hepburn” captures the warmth and steadiness of new love. Together they show both sides of Maisie’s emotional world and hint at the range she is preparing to share.
With the addition of Marcus Mumford as a collaborator and a series of deeply personal singles already out, Maisie Peters is shaping a new chapter that feels intimate, cinematic, and quietly powerful. Her next album is already becoming one of her most anticipated yet.
