SEVENOAKS, ENGLAND — Singer-songwriter Liri Dais announces the release of their new single, “Counting Hours,” out April 12, 2026. Recorded in London, the track is both a debut and a resurrection — a song written over two decades ago, finally brought to life with the studio-quality production it always deserved.
The story behind “Counting Hours” is as compelling as the song itself. Dais wrote the track in 2001 while performing with student band Landslide — a piece of music that existed for years only in scratchy, rough recordings, carrying the raw emotional energy of its original moment but never the production to match it. For over two decades, it waited. Now, through a hybrid creative process combining Dais’s own vocals and guitar performance with modern AI-assisted production via Suno, the song has been fully realised — preserving the emotional honesty of the original while elevating it into a polished, contemporary release.
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It is a rare thing: a song that is simultaneously twenty-five years old and brand new.
“Counting Hours” moves through vivid, cinematic storytelling — a narrative of desperation, loss, and the relentless weight of time that unfolds like a short film in sound. The imagery is stark and literary, painting a world of fractured lives, quiet grief, and the kind of slow collapse that happens when everything a person held onto slips through their hands. Themes that were potent when Dais first wrote them in 2001 land with equal — perhaps greater — force today.
The single represents the broader ambition of the Liri Dais project: a multi-genre songwriting catalogue built across twenty-five years, now being brought into the present with modern production tools that give each song the space and clarity it was always reaching for. “Counting Hours” is the first of these resurrected works to be released, and it signals an artist ready to share a body of work long held close.
