In an age of singles and shuffle play, "We Build Our Dreams" demands something rarer — your full attention. Neale Eckstein's follow-up to his 2024 Album hit "Never Too Late" is a sequence of intimate human portraits. A man waits to learn if his family will have a home to return to after a massive wildfire evacuation. A runaway boy is helped home by a stranger in a park. A phone call arrives on a beautiful spring day and changes everything. A cleaning lady rediscovers her love of painting. There is remembrance of Christmas and a high school dance. A love song to his wife, drawn from forty-two years of marriage. And a cover of Kristofferson's "Help Me Make It Through the Night," a songwriter Neale was fortunate enough to meet on several occasions. Produced and mixed in his Fox Run Studio, Build Our Dreams is what happens when a lifetime of listening finally meets a lifetime of living.

Neale Eckstein has been producing music for others in his Fox Run Studio for 25 years. This is his first solo release of 14 original songs. "Never Too Late" is co-produced by his Fox Run Five bandmate, Matt Nakoa, and with musical contributions from Eric Schwartz, Tom Prasada-Rao, Jagoda, and vocal contributions from BettySoo, Greg Greenway, Kirsten Maxwell, and Rene Pfister, it's one hour of listening joy.