At Palác Akropolis, Croak Dream will be performed live for the first time with the full band – dark romanticism, visions of endings and new beginnings. South-London born, Atlanta-based artist Puma Blue (aka Jacob Allen) returns to Prague with the new album Croak Dream (Play It Again Sam, February 2026). The record explores how we might live if we knew when and how we’d die – a theme Allen renders with melancholic poetry, rawness, and fragile beauty.

On the new album, Puma Blue takes bold risks. His music draws on trip-hop, dub techno, jungle and forward-thinking electronics, interwoven with intimate songwriting and a voice that moves from a whisper to an emotional outburst. The album was crafted at the renowned Real World Studios of Peter Gabriel, where Allen and producer Sam Petts-Davies (The Smile, Warpaint) built a sonic world from improvisations, fragments and raw takes. The result is an organic, living whole—an album that breathes and even surprises the musicians who played on it.

The single “Desire”, originally written in a hotel room and captured only on a phone, became the foundation of the entire record. Its rough, untamed character set the tone for Croak Dream—a clash of tenderness and grit, lucidity and physicality.

Following the acclaim of In Praise of Shadows (2021) and Holy Waters (2023), Puma Blue presents his most daring incarnation yet: free-flowing, experimental, and deeply personal. His shows are renowned for hypnotic intensity, turning a club into both a quiet confession and a roaring dream.