Uploaded March 2018 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago

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Arms of a Dream features Reuben and the Dark’s most transformative music to date. The album’s first single, “All or Nothing,” is an anthem that careens on the boundary of “confidence and complete desperation,” as Reuben describes it. Above a canyon of chiming guitars and rolling drums, Reuben’s voice exults in the triumph of risk over loss, and the salve of unconditional hope.

The album finds Reuben working outside his comfort zone, both musically and lyrically. With uncharacteristically literal and intimate storytelling, Reuben confronts the entanglement of love & family at the heart of “All or Nothing.” He sings: My mother found solace in hiding her pain / My father a shepherd, no sheep to his name / I learned to keep all my feelings inside / With a mother to face and a father to fight.

The new dynamic lays the groundwork for personal, seismic change. Melodies of atmospheric peaks burst from the cracks in his solitary poetry – And the heart is a cage if the heart doesn’t change – as Reuben portrays the shift of his own soul. He says:

“‘All or Nothing’ was locked in my head for a long time. When it was finally written, I was left with a feeling of freedom, of letting go. But I am careful not to corner it into a room that is too small. It is simple and universal. It isn’t a love song. It isn’t a protest song. It is an anthem of mine.”

Through the process of writing came the revelation of each song’s meaning, an experience that Reuben describes as “psychic, or transcendent.” Through his immersion in dreams, Reuben unlocked the cryptic symbolism of his narratives. In challenging his own creative systems, he was able to create imagery with photographic sharpness.